Complaints

So I got about four hours of sleep yesterday afternoon and then spent an uncomfortable night unable to stay in one position for more than ten minutes. Ants invaded the bathroom. A dozen or so were crawling around the rim of the washbowl, and I took out my frustration on them, crushing them with a piece of toilet paper. More of them appeared from behind the sink -- have they colonized the wall? I crushed so many of them that the air began to smell of dead ant. Then I slept for a few more hours. I still move gingerly, as my back still feels as though it is just about to do something nasty to me, with lots of little catches whenever I move. I also ache all over, as though I'd fallen down a flight of stairs, and I have an intermittent headache and that queasy feeling that often accompanies it. I have another appointment for four o'clock. I'd rather just go to sleep for a week or so.

Hot once again, and the house full of that clammy atmosphere it gets when the air conditioner has been in frequent use. Bugger summer. And ouch!

Less Ouchy

I'm slightly more comfortable after a second adjustment. A third is scheduled for Friday afternoon. I still can't sit in one spot for long, though, so I'm falling even further behind with everything computer-related. In fact, sitting in front of Sluggo and straining to see his monitor might be one of the things that set of this particular recurrence of my back problems. All this time, when he kept crashing, I thought it was because he was trying to piss me off, and it turns out he was trying to get me to move around more for the sake of my back. At least, that's what he will probably assume. What I think is that he knows that when he isn't working, I often go and watch television, and he's getting kickbacks from TV advertisers.

Anyway, it's going to be less time at the computer until my back is feeling better. Then I'll come back and screw it up again.