faith is a journey

• 04:37 Trying to wake up to do/ study coptic. Tea might be necessary. #
• 10:19 coptic quiz FTL. ah well. lowest two get dropped. now onto jerome! #
• 13:10 You know you're sick when you hear a language, know you understand it, and yet can't seem to process what it means. Keine Deutschtisch 4 me. #
• 15:28 Mark Jordan is taunting us with seminary classes that were taught on homosexuality by showing gay porn. #
• 16:37 Reading adolescent queer letters about their relation with the church is heartbreaking and gutwrenching. #
• 17:03 Yay! Time to go home! #
• 18:18 @jillianofdoom HUGS! feel better soon. #
• 18:46 Drinking warm sake is good for the sore throat. #
• 20:27 @jenzaquinn "I like this one because it tastes like jello". My roomie is silly. #

• 13:08 Today is one of those days when my body didn't want to get out of bed. #
• 16:48 Dear sirs, I am gimpy and sick. My throat and lungs are painful enough right now without you blowing smoke in my face. Thanks. #
• 17:21 @jenzaquinn boo. just too crowded maybe? #
• 17:21 should not be in this much pain considering how many drugs i'm on. #
• 19:37 watching 'Eyes Wide Shut' and remembering the first time I saw the film - which was the unedited Cuban version #

• 16:58 the hinge on my knee brace is squeaking... this means i sound like the tin man when I walk. I find this hilarious. #

• 07:44 Current temp 13F. Predicted low - 34F. Predicted High - 41F. Gotta love New England. #
• 09:42 If the unicorn represents Scotland, does that mean Scotland doesn't exist? #
• 09:49 "peculiar encounter" the official museum of science euphamism. #
• 10:38 On the touch/feel breast lump exhibit - "I get to touch boobies" -unknown #
• 11:33 Driving the mars rover to a successful mission- such a huge high. #
• 16:47 racetrack chaplain is an actual job #
• 20:21 has a new bigger bookshelf! #

• 23:54 @jackflaps welcome to the fold. Enjoy the addiction. #
• 17:39 we have a grey & white slinky kitty train! only two cars, though #

• 06:37 waking up is hard to do. especially from weird dreams/nightmares #
• 10:34 You know you're a dork when you repeatedly laugh out loud while reading tertullian. And wonder if the Latin original is funnier. #
• 13:52 @rhiannonrevolts total agreement on episode 100. #
• 14:00 There are nice considerate people in cambridge. Someone just stopped and asked if I needed help while I was waiting for @jenzaquinn. #
• 18:15 @stephenfry have you resulted to the drinking songs and games of truth or dare yet? #
• 19:49 you know it's bad when you hear the original 'modern major general' and all you can do is sing Tom Lehrer's Elements song. Thank you, CPS. #
• 19:50 Also, so much Gilbert & sullivan love. #
• 22:49 today = real bad pain day for the knee. not sure if it's just the weather or something else. will probably be an early night. #

• 06:47 should not be grinning like an idiot just because Mark Jordan commented on my email signature. but i am. #
• 07:16 pie in the oven. trying not to go back to sleep. #
• 08:39 pie done. now to figure out transportation mechanics while on crutches. #

• 09:52 Snow and crutches don't mix. #
• 11:30 Forgot how much arm strength is n nneeded for mobility on crutches. #
• 17:40 survived the first day of classes - even though they moved one of our classes across campus which meant i had quite the trek on crutches. :( #
• 17:44 iphone display issue fixed. *breathes sigh of relief* #

There have been facebook status updates & tweets about this, but now that I've had a fairly concrete diagnosis, I think it's time for the full story.

Sunday I went ice skating with bad_influence, catling42, and skimtony at the rink in Somerville. Wiped out a few times - mostly due to unsharpened skates at the beginning. It's amazing what a difference sharpened skates make. Seriously. Had a blast though. I mean, I crashed on my left knee once kinda hard to the point where I couldn't put any weight on it, but sat out for a bit and then could put weight on it, so went back into the ring. (Lather, rinse, repeat). Yes, this happened more than once.

Went to mass and dinner as usual Sunday night. By that point, I realized that straightening my leg completely or bending it more than 90 degrees was causing lots of pain. catling42 and I went to urgent care (she's my hospital buddy, obviously) and they put me on crutches and told me I definitely did something to it - mostlikely tore something. Went back to see a member of my PCP team on Monday who told me to not put any weight on it at all, told me to be good about taking anti-inflammatory drugs on a schedule because that was necessary. Got the 'you're not as young as you used to be, take care of your body' talk. Got scheduled for an ortho appointment 'stat'. Went to see ortho today (a different one than previously, but I like this one much better) - who's name is Lars! - and was told that luckily my ACL appears to be intact. I have, however, torn my MCL. Good news is, it will heal itself on its own. My meniscus is too acutely damaged at the moment to tell whether there's any permament damage there. So, I'm on crutches for another week or two. Should keep off it completely until the swelling goes down & it looks normal again. Have appointments for PT in the meantime. See the ortho again in six weeks to re-evaluate the situation and see if it requires surgery or not.

Can I just say I'm not looking forward to a winter storm arriving tomorrow on the first day of classes while I'm on crutches? Yeah, not so much.

In good news, told my brother everything on the gender front and he didn't even miss a beat. I love him.

• 00:33 Wearing "the dice are trying to kill me" tshirt to D&D seems to have been a bad omen. Struggling not to cease to exist. #
• 01:48 Survived D&D by getting turned into a red dragon. #

• 09:59 food shopping done. now to make myself look professional/presentable for the fancy MLK lunch today . #
• 11:35 Reading @stephenfry 's tweete never fails to entertain me. It's beneficial to my health to have #
• 11:49 @ladyguenivere and it's good to have people like that. #
• 14:35 @pyrorbl wtf?!?! Glad you're alright. #
• 15:28 I love when one email can just make your day. #
• 15:39 @jenzaquinn in a good way. morsecode sent me an email that went "Congratulations, Sir on coming home. I'd be honoured." to a request I made. #
• 17:31 @catling42 is mal sitting on you? #
• 18:34 @jackflaps english, spanish and what? which airport? #