The feeling of places

Places I have recently (sometimes disconcertingly) felt comfortable:

my house
my office
the theory lab
the doctor's office
the hospital
inside an MRI machine

Places I have recently felt uncomfortable:

meeting with my advisor
walking on crowded sidewalks
phone conversations with bureaucratic agencies
the hallway outside my office
any social situation with someone I've known for less than a year
my front porch
the grocery store


This post's theme people: random strangers who stop on the sidewalk to help the sad girl on crutches. They are rarer than I would ever have believed, but incredibly kind when they do occur in nature.

I'm a big girl now!

I've had the jingle from that diaper commercial in my head all day. Today (despite accidentally spilling boiling water on my hand -- because of my hurt knee -- so that I was icing my hand and knee all day -- crutching was painful -- sometimes I just channel Miss Saigon: "Why, God, whyyyyyyyyyy?") I made an independent foray to the supermarket and back. I will not starve, at least not in the next few days. Groceries are heavy, my hand hurts, and the rain made the sidewalk treacherously crutch-slippery.

Yours in overcoming adversity,
Lila

This post's theme biological trick: freezing nerves to prevent them from signalling pain in the brain. It is fabulous.