Day 3 Again-- notes

Life without growth is not living, and the act of growth can be pleasurable, and sometimes painful. Growing pains, they call it. The sweet ache of life. 

This limb aches with life. 

When this cast comes off, I will get pedicures. Many, many pedicures. Salons shall know my name. I will honor these toes and foot and ankle. Perhaps I may wear toe rings. No, toe rings bug me. Well, lots of great foot massage then. 

My body is jellifying. Diminished and pale and jellied. 

Spring is bound to come, though. 

Let me just say, when you haven't pooped in 4 days, finally pooping is deeply joyful. It restores your hope in the world. 

Also, situps continue to be available and I shall partake daily. Still waiting on the set of small weights. 

There was a chunk of plaster on my cast that stuck into the back of my knee and kept me from bending my leg much. Tom cut it off tonight with some perfect tool that he has made just for cutting plaster. My cast is more comfortable now. Still tight, but getting looser. 

2 Dilaudid, 2 Percocet. 

I finished the Ommivore's Dilemma, by Michael Pollan. Do you know that we are all eating corn, in the form of meat? The meat in our supermarket comes from cows that are eating corn (plus lots of antibiotics, so they don't die from it), but cows are supposed to eat grass. Grass, people. Cows eat grass. Not corn. They have 4 stomachs just for the purpose of digesting grass! But cow factories feed corn, because it fattens up the meat quicker. And because our government makes corn very, extremely cheap for industry. 

So, we eat those cows. We are at the top of that food chain. 

Just sayin. Read the book, it's good.  8th grade RL. 

I also finished Away, by Amy Bloom. It's about a Russian Jewish woman who emigrates to America in the 20's, after living through the massacre of her family in her home town. It's a great story, full of characters and lascivious yet elegant details. The librarian at Heritage, Caitlin, recommended this book to me and today I recommend this book to you. It would be good if you were on at least a 10th grade reading level for this book. 

Now working on Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver. Locavore food movement. It's okay...I'm a little bored but so far inclined to withhold judgment as to how good a book it is. 

In the queue is Home, by Marilynne Robinson. 

I watched Entourage today. a whole disk. What an utter work of shit. I can't believe it's had more than one season. 

I had a couple of nice visitors today. Tom was working, so we set up some babysitting shifts. Robert Feldman brought me a bunch of DVD's, thai food, and cardboard and duct tape. He fashioned me a cupholder on my crutch, and gave me a travel coffee mug. Now I can make myself tea and carry it to the couch. Also can carry: small ice packs, moisturizer, water bottle. Robert is a very clever man. And interesting. He even did the dishes and took out the garbage!

Meredith came by and brought flowers and chatted. 

Hector came by to bring me the schedules of all the 10th graders-- sweet! He hung out for a while and we speculated on the relative probabilities of keeping our jobs in these tough economic times. 

Chin up.