About a month ago I got an MRI and went to see a back specialist. The MRI revealed a bulging disc and a pinched nerve. The DO, Dr. P. with the Many Students, who really is great, said I would be completely out of pain and fully corrected after four manipulations and a course ofContinueContinue reading “It’s all good”
Category Archives: All About ME
FRIDAY AFTERNOONS OFF!!!!!!
Thanks to Jen from the Neighborhood (Governor Granholm), telecommuting (working from home) and compressed work schedules like 4 10-hour days are now fast tracked in state government to promote energy savings. It’s also promoting flexibility that wasn’t easily available before now and I just started a compressed/telecommuting schedule. After 9 1/2 years I’m working somethingContinueContinue reading “FRIDAY AFTERNOONS OFF!!!!!!”
Greenpeace
As long as we’re on the topic of my early employment with posts one and two about my time with Burger King, McDonald’s and Pizza Hut, I thought I’d wax a bit about my time with Greenpeace. I’ve mentioned this before, with how I was when Clean Water Action came a knockin’. I started inContinueContinue reading “Greenpeace”
16 Weeks
Well, I’ve made the 16 week mark at Weight Watchers. Statistically, my chances of success just went way up. That’s good. Here I am. I like the program a lot and would recommend it. Many thanks to A. who recommended a great group leader (at WW you go to a weekly meeting and learn aboutContinueContinue reading “16 Weeks”
On Sleeping
Most of you know me for the pumpkin that I am In college being a pumpkin meant simply that I turned in ahead of most of my friends. Nuthin’ personal, y’all, I’m off to bed. I pulled one all-nighter in my early twenties: when I was jail-sitting after a Take Back the Night Rally. AContinueContinue reading “On Sleeping”
Taxing
In high school, when I was fifteen, I wanted to be friends with Angie H. and this other young woman whose name I no longer remember. In between classes, they would go into the fire escapes or out the back door of the school and smoke. The other young woman smoked camels. I don’t rememberContinueContinue reading “Taxing”
Success
I’m finishing up my second week in PT now. Two days a week I’m in traction followed by 45 minutes of pool exercises. The traction is marvelous. The pool exercises are somewhat more frustrating. The first day in the pool I noted that I was the youngest person in the water. I have noted thisContinueContinue reading “Success”