Back, peers and peris

[mrissa]

I'm wondering if the fall down the stairs yesterday wasn't worse than I thought at the time. (I had to have conversations -- separately but identically -- with markgritter and timprov about this: "You fell down the stairs???" "It was in my lj entry!" And it was -- yesterday morning I said, "I managed to fall down the stairs with an empty glass in my hand and break neither self nor glass this morning, so who knows what." It was in with the stuff about painting.) Anyway, something is discombobulated, and I suspect that I am blocking out a fair amount of input there. Which is not useful right now -- if it's going to be something that needs attention from the massage place, the chiropractor, or the doctor, I have more time for that attention now than later -- so in a bit I will go be mentally quiet and try to see what's going on in my back. If that makes any sense.

Last night markgritter and I watched Iolanthe on DVD. I thought of lydy because it started with a pop-up book, but it wasn't a good enough pop-up book that I would get her a copy of the DVD for her birthday or anything like that. Gilbert and Sullivan operettas always have twittery bits, but this was twitterier than most. (If you want to get technical, we thought it was overly influenced by Felix Mendelssohn.) Still, we enjoyed it, and markgritter laughed intemperately at a few lines. I have one more on hand, The Sorcerer, by way of research on comic operettas for What We Did to Save the Kingdom -- good excuse, huh? Writing is like that some weeks, an excuse for whatever you're wanting to excuse, really. And since I'd already finished the draft of a short story and stuck words on WWDtStK, it wasn't even the kind of excuse that's a replacement for writing. Just an addition.

Comments

[buymeaclue.livejournal.com]

Oof! I hope your back is okay, or at the most, not okay in ways that are quick easy for your medical-type people to make okay again.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Oh, no worries -- nothing's torn or anything like that. Just askew and slightly cross with me.

[greykev.livejournal.com]

May I cross my fingers and hope that the current back-woes will cause/lead to more permanent fixedness? Somebody out there needs to catch a break or two, might as well be you. --but, er, not in a literal sense, 'kay?

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

You can hope all you want, but the mechanism for that sort of thing happening any time soon would be pretty shaky.

[haddayr.livejournal.com]

Oh, noes! I missed the reference at first, too. Yikes! I hope things are only temporarily discombobulated instead of anything worse.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

As I said to Hannah, nothing's torn, and the rest is fixable with chiropractic attention, massage, yoga, Advil, and/or time.

[redbird]

It's starting to feel like I'm the only person who registered that fall: and I interpreted it as "this isn't good, but M'rissa sounds like this has happened before and she knows how to deal with it."

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

It has indeed, and I do, so far as there's stuff to know.

[redbird]

I should probably make a note of this, to the effect that I should never assume my partners know something just because I mentioned it on LJ.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I think I am particularly bad about putting bits of information into the flow of conversation about something else.

[redbird]

That is a point, but I mentioned this to cattitude, who mentioned that he doesn't always read LJ.

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[angeyja.livejournal.com]

I missed that too. I have been very spotty with the LJ reading this week because of the schedule, and then I went back to see if you'd taken up oils. (Unlikely as that may seem to you.) Hope the quiet was productive. I've been exterior painting and will again if the rains stop.

I often wish my head was more drop dead creative rather than receptive in terms of sparking picture ideas, and then research. It's sparked now, from _Galveston_ and I am wanting to search Fools, and Mardi Gras, and fabulous beasts, and masks. That last, especially.

Re: back

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Well, I've worked with oils before, but the paints I have in the house are acrylics, and I'd be likely to stick with them just for drying reasons.

So far today, 2.1K words on the novel. May call it a day and go rest the back, but it's been helping me focus away from back pain, so. More on e-mail later.