I am mighty

[redbird]

I copyedited two manuscripts today, and have sent them both off to their authors for approval and the answering of queries about references. [These are magazine articles, not full-length books.] After doing that and a break for Scrabble, I have updated my resume. (Next is a cover letter for a possible job at the zoo; I also need to take the resume with me, and/or email it to myself, to show people at the current employer who might have openings in their departments.) Update: I have emailed the resume to my office. I am not going to push myself on that cover letter, and will try not to fret about it. I have three wonderful sweeties, and some other wonderful friends, who remind me not to push myself too hard, and not to be too hard on myself, and sometimes I even manage this.

I cooked us lunch (oatmeal, which is easy, but tasty and nourishing). I have washed knives, wooden spoons, and a couple of skewers, none of which can go in the dishwasher.

I've done my stretches twice today. I'm sure some of the 30% for whom physical therapy doesn't do the job are just unlucky and have more difficult or serious rotator cuff problems, but I suspect that some are because it's difficult, mentally, to do all this stuff every day, even if you have the time and space.

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[callunav.livejournal.com]

I know my sensei, who had knee injuries, talked about being baffled when he realized how many other people at the PT clinic he went to didn't do their exercises and then complained that PT wasn't working.

It /is/ aggravating to have to do them, I know from my own experience: it's not just that they're not enjoyable tasks, it's also that they forcibly remind you (me) that you're (I'm) damaged.

Here, by the way, is the poem I was looking for a few days ago. It's by Chrystos, from Dream On:


ON THE BUS

full of anybody else but Indians
I called out
Hey there's an Eagle
They all looked
& for a heartbeat you could feel
their awe
then fast as a microwave
they recovered their frozen dinner faces
& looked at me like I was really
crazy
so from now on
I'm keeping all my Eagles to myself

[redbird]

Thank you.

[callunav.livejournal.com]

My pleasure.