The novelty is wearing off (that’s assuming there was a novelty there at all)

I went back to school today. This was mostly because I was running out of work to email in and as I need to go to the hospital again tomorrow I thought it best to go in today, do some proper work with my 2nd years before their exam and sort out work for crazy Friday. Plus it was a chance to show off my huge cast before it gets changed tomorrow and prove that I wasn’t making it all up!

Isn’t funny how quickly you develop preformed sentences to answer the same general question? I have a load of them. Anything to do with my degree is answered with ‘International history, law, economics and politics’. Anything to do with last year is ‘Western North Carolina, kind of event planning an international conference.’ (Depending on the questioner they might get the added word ‘Methodist’).

Today I added to my repertoire ‘I fell on wet, muddy [this makes it sound less like they were newly formed steps that now have an imprint of my butt and I believe the mud to be the reason for the slip, not the fact they were wet] concrete steps. I landed on my butt and hand, breaking a bone here [I point to the approximate place on my right hand with my middle finger of my left]. The bone is tiny, about the size of a cashew nut, but it seems it’s quite important to thumb movement!’ [I think the uptone at the end makes it sound less serious, more like I'm laughing at the situation and that I am ready and indeed eager to move on. Or in words, 'laugh along with me why don't you? Oh you were laughing already, it's me joining you in the laughter'.] Seriously, I must have said this about thirty times today.

I am quite looking forward to tomorrow, not least because the cast is slowly crumbling (although this is fun to pick at). I blame the humidity as I have been meticulous in keeping it dry, what with my carefully selected plastic bag sans air holes and hair tie to keep the shower spray off it. I’m kind of hoping that the new one will maybe be smaller and allow my intact fingers to move. Today I must have poured three times the amount of shampoo on my head. Is it possible that I lost some nerve cells on my head in the fall? Seriously, I had no clue there was that much there. I could have slipped on the overspill and that would hurt my all too delicate tailbone.

On the upside, I am getting the chance to watch my West Wing DVDs that I brought out. This should please David, as when I return in June I can leave them for him. Although I imagine Karen will be less thrilled. Sorry.

I don’t envisage going that far this weekend. I’ve noticed a certain amount of pity in people’s faces. (Much like the time I got on hit in the face by a tree Jaime and I were trying to cut at camp. I had the biggest bruise on my chin. I decided people thought I was a victim of domestic violence, that’s what their faces said anyway). So instead I will work on a way of freeing more space on my computer. Apparently I have 364MB, which is just enough to show as a black line on the pie chart. I have gone through the rigmarole before and taken off photos and unused programs. But now it is clear it’s the music that needs to go, deleting Word and PowerPoint files will do nothing to help the situation. So if anyone has any clue how to tell iTunes that the music is now coming from an external hard drive instead of My Music without deleting it all, that’d be super. Before I do anything I need to back up a few things onto CD. It’d be a tragedy if I lost all that country music.