Nanoo Nanoo

[blamebrampton]

Start Point: 11,781
Yesterday: 13,012
Today: 13,651
Today's total: 639, plus 1482 deleted words. So sort of 2121, except that I nearly chucked as many already-written bits as I added new. Oh dear.

Helps:
Portuguese custard tarts from the school fete

Hindrances:
Writing 900 words on a garden story. Which don't count for this.

Plus, OW OW OW OW OW MY SHOULDERS! Standard Day After Accident ache from wreching them trying to keep the bike up. Idiotically went to a massage therapist who was not the one I usually see, now I have yet more bruises. AND he spent time telling me how much he loved Atlas Shrugged. Lying there, face down in only my undies, trying not to yelp as he pressed hard on all the bruises I already had in a bid to ease up on my tension (I am only held together by tension!) and trying to be polite as he spoke of Ayn Rand's genius, I wondered if perhaps I was wrong and there is a god. And that god is Loki.

Sample of the conversation: 'If you bruise easily, it's all coming from your spleen. Chinese medicine states that very clearly.' 'Don't you think it could possibly the fact that I am really quite pale and so any bruises just show up very well?' 'Possibly. But the pain in your foot is coming from your gallbladder.' 'Or the fact I shattered that foot back in the late 90s …'

I am booked to see my normal massage person next week. Her loopiest conversation is 'Of course we get on, you're an Aquarius!' I can live with that. And she thinks Ayn Rand is an amoral bore, too.

Comments

[bk7brokemybrain.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Even Chinese medicine acknowledges that the more solid levels of being, say flesh and bone, will trump the more delicate causes of pain, like swirling eddies of Qi in your Gall Bladder channel. This guy sounds like an eager newbie.
I hope you feel better. Keep up the writing!

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

Yes! I have no issue with people who offer up alternatives, especially to mystery bleagh, and have found accupuncture useful in the past (from an actual Chinese therapist, who said 'Oh yes, you work too hard, let me loosen up your shoulders' bless him), But when I have just talked him through my foot accident and shown him where the scars catch … I don't like having to listen to a monologue in a massage anyway, and one that was Ayn Rand and 'Oh, your poor spleen …' left me counting down the minutes :-)

Elbow healing beautifully!