Day Ten FItter, Happier

Feeling pretty good, all things considered.  The sky outside is brighter than usual. It's groundhog day, and 49 degrees outside. 

Not that I've actually been outside. I haven't been outside for going on a week now. This indoor landscape is the only real place on earth, as far as I know. This couch, these walls. These pillows. 

Doesn't it sound a little cozy? Letting the world pass you by, gazing through your window at the clouds moving across the blue sky? 

It's not bad, I have to say, except for one significantly bad part. 

The bad part is getting better. Lesser pain and swelling. Surgery this week...then I'll have to go through the pain and swelling all over again. But by that time, there will be a light at the end of the tunnel. 

Diogenes, a student in my studio, sent me a text message today. Tomorrow my students will all be back at school, after the Regent's. I won't be back for a month. I am worried about how they will manage without me, and how to make myself available and helpful to them. 

Tom found me a set of light weights, so I can keep my arms in shape while lying here. I have nothing better to do. Also sit-ups. I can do sit-ups. One must retain some semblance of one's former glory, after all. Even if but a shadow. 

My sister left this morning at 5 am. She was so great to have here, so incredibly helpful and kind. She gave Tom a break from everything. So now he's much nicer, too. I must do something nice for her. Perhaps something in the mail. I will mail her my cat, maybe. She does like him. No, actually....not my cat. Maybe a tiny replica of Larry Fitzgerald, with a red and white suit and a tiny number 11, and a miniature curvaceous bum. Hmmm...

I told my friend Mark about the "Blackness Scale" created by Terrence and Ajay, and he was intrigued, wanted to know how black he was. Obviously, this guy is white. Here are his self-made lists of scores for and against him.

Pros:

Know lots of African-American music-- jazz to hip hop

Strong slang vocabulary

Basketball skillz (see? vocabulary)

Wear lots of track suits

40's 

Have talked to Warren G on telephone

Have dated white girls with huge asses (bonus ++)

Cons:

Pretty nerdy

Own a Belle and Sebastian album

Hang around a lot of frosties, aka white devils

Don't like okra, gravy

Can't dance (excepting robot)

Mark thinks he should get a 7/10 (whereas Terrence placed me at at 6/10), but I can't be the judge.