Else what's a heaven for?

You're not going to believe this, but I called my incompetent GP and got a referral, which was for a general surgeon whose office is near my apt. And got an appt for Weds, hurrah.

I wish I knew why I was so resistant to calling the orthopedic surgeon the PT god suggested. I feel like I'm wasting his heap-big time with my itty-bitty shoulder issue. I mean, the dude who went to med school 50 years ago says it's a fat deposit, the anatomy dork who listens to me bitch about it in exquisite detail (and yet keeps listening bc he's a masochist) says it's a really awful case of bursitis. I figure the general surgeon can handle either, hm? (My sister thinks I should see an oncological something or other, but then there's a reason she's not the person I want making my medical decisions and I've told everyone in my family so.)

I had some cutting remark about the fellow I've been chatting up on OkCupid, but I can't remember it and I'm late for Crossfit. Time to see if some power cleans will make my shoulder feel better.

Edit: why is it always the fugliest guys who are the most looksist?

Edit2: The instructor was kawaii with his flummoxed expression at my complete inability to grok the hang clean, but ultimately I'm unconvinced today made me stronger. There'll be a poll question about this soon, oh yes.

This was a bizarrely social weekend. The two seders were fine. ( Read more... )

I got almost nothing done Fri, thanks to waking up in A Mood and then trawling the dark side of the Intarwebs for HRG icons. There's a lot of ghastly lj's out there by people who seriously need to get a life; I got a few satisfactory icons but I think it would've been faster to learn to use Photoshop myself though.

It was nice to see folks I rarely get to see. I saw Kat twice! and had dinner (and book delivery & discussion!) with thewronghands. Sat I did Nancy and got a visit from Clark Kent that has me grinning two days later. I started studying that night - only to fall quickly and deeply asleep on my books. d'oh!

Sun morning, the Lifebringer brought me coffee. It was fully caffeinated, so I was a crackmonkey for several hours before falling asleep on my books again. It took him forever to convince me I wouldn't get weaker from doing Crossfit and that gals who are frantically cramming their brain with arcane knowledge should NOT take up hobbies where they need to learn new techniques like martial arts or pole dancing or rock climbing. And he, alas, pointed out that I'm happiest when I'm sore from something and I'll probably spend the three weeks of the class horribly sore, so. Also, all the cool kids are doing it. Then the Easter Spider dropped off a basket for me YAAY!

I ran a 6mi loop and then my sister came over. I thought she was stopping by to pick up stuff, but she decided to hang out while I took a bath and give herself a mask at the same time. It was nice to hear all about why our cousin's going to McGill and why our baby cousin is obsessed with duckies. (Apparently she was traumatized when Bbro ripped the head off a marzipan duck and ate it in front of her.) Unfortunately, it meant I got no more studying done last night, so I've still got a pset to go before I'm done with the engineering units. I'd say "Surely this is the end of the really hard stuff," but every time I come to a new section, I declare, "I'm not smart enough to understand this," and then I do. I'm still glad I only have to demonstrate how this stuff is used and not calculate though. And then this week is more extreme socialness, so I don't know when I'll catch up.

I mentioned in passing that I'd be signing up for the xfit elements class and my sister immediately got excited and decided she wanted to do it too. We took the last two spots in the six person class and I fell asleep thinking about all the ways this could go horribly wrong. Like, seeing a relative twice a week wrong. And then I dreamed that the xfit class was crowded and people kept taking my towel or my spot on the floor and then they organized the class into groups based on testosteroneyness and I got put in the highest group so I was stuck with all these gorilla guys. It was horrible and I was so relieved to finally wake up.