It's a Monday, yes siree

[cjsmith]

My physical therapist didn't want to teach me how to tape my foot, but he finally agreed to. It had become clear I was going to do it myself with or without his help. Heh. :) He did my right foot, he told me which spots should remain clear of tape, then he watched me while I did my left. He pronounced me safe to do it on my own.

Now my feet are definitely sore (since I went to PT this morning) but walking is sort of bearable (because they're taped). I figured I might get through square dance practice this evening without getting TOO far into the pain-induced bitchiness.*

Naturally, the abdominal pain decided it would have a party today.

I, the undersigned, CJ Smith, do herewith make full formal and public apology for any and all nastiness I may produce during the evening of Monday June 6 2005, including, but not limited to, name-calling, spiteful commentary, eye-rolling whether called for or un, heavy sighs, insults, crass language, and "shut up, Frank". (Okay, on second thought, the crass language is normal.)


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* I'm actually kind of a nice person when I'm not hurting. Stop laughing! Truly, I am. Not that most of you would have any reason to know or believe that. It embarrasses me, the pain-induced bitchiness. I feel bad for those who wind up putting up with me. I know my actions and words are no one's responsibility but my own, and I am slowly learning to control this, but I've got a long way to go. It's a slow process.

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[quasigeostrophy.livejournal.com]

My physical therapist didn't want to teach me how to tape my foot

Good effing grief. I can't stand when medical professionals get like that.

Naturally, the abdominal pain decided it would have a party today.

I think it's going around. *gentle hugs*

I'm actually kind of a nice person when I'm not hurting.

I think I can vouch for that on at least a couple of occassions in person. :-)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

I don't like it when medical professionals get like that either. In this case I understand his concern, which is that if I do it a lot I'll depend on the tape instead of strengthening the small muscles of the foot that are needed to stabilize my forefoot without tape. I promised him I wouldn't tape every day.

I think it's going around.

I think it's genetic. My mom had it, I came down with it, we were pretty sure it ran in the family and my sister would have it eventually... sure enough. ;-)

I can vouch for that

Thank you! :)

[quasigeostrophy.livejournal.com]

I understand his concern, which is that if I do it a lot I'll depend on the tape instead of strengthening the small muscles of the foot

Ah. That I can see, I suppose.

I think it's genetic.

It must be something that doesn't travel on the Y chromosome.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Yeah. All the people I mentioned share a birth defect -- we don't have a Y chromosome.

[quasigeostrophy.livejournal.com]

Certain evolutionary opinions I've read seem to imply the opposite - that the Y chromosome is the defect.

I have a treatment and various ill-fated attempts at prose for parts of a sci-fi story that I started back to when I was in 8th grade that runs with that concept. :-)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Darned useful defect, then. Too bad evolution didn't see fit to give it to all of us. What was the story idea? The defect becomes less common, perhaps?

[quasigeostrophy.livejournal.com]

It was about a geneticist a few hundred years from now who perfects cloning by reproducing women without using sperm; the women who are a result get xenophobic; then it turns into a he dies, she dies, everybody dies sort of story. Actually, there's a bit more to it than that, but that's the gist. :-)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Done well I bet it'd be a pretty powerful story. Everybody dies stories are like that.

[quasigeostrophy.livejournal.com]

I toy with the idea of revisiting it every so often. It's changed quite a bit as I and the story idea itself have both grown up and I've tried to keep the protagonist from being too super-human and the whole thing from being too preachy.

My problem with fiction is in expressing enough in the prose to develop my characters. I can come up with a plot easily. I can even do decent descriptions and character POV thoughts. Dialogue, OTOH... I'm not to confident in my ability there.