injury update

went back to the doctor today to make sure the progress i've been making, ankle-wise, is the progress i'm supposed to have been making. i can put weight on it okay, but rolling through a step hurts quite a bit, even after seven days. she said that's not surprising, but the improvement is a good sign. "you did a good job on it," she said, by which she meant you really sprained the living crap out of it, kid.

i am authorized to switch to the pull-on brace instead of the ace wrap, which, yay, because there was only one pair of shoes i could get on over the wrap, but the brace is a lot sleeker. am also authorized to put on the Mad Crazy Brace (which i had to get in high school when i did Bad Things to both ankles playing hockey) and go to the gym, provided i do things like the bike and the swimming, and not things like the treadmill or the elliptical. not to be having repetitive weight-bearing motions on this foot quite yet. (probably wouldn't have the Mad Crazy Brace in the pool, i guess. but whatever.) yay! with the driving to school instead of walking, i've been feeling like i hardly move at all.

and speaking of driving, i had to renew the temporary handicapped pass for another week. in front of me in line was a kid on crutches who was getting the same pass for two weeks. the guy at the counter said "this is all i've been doing all day, is issuing these temporary handicap passes. what have y'all been doing to yourselves?"

west wing

don't click if you're spoiler-phobic and west of the eastern time zone.

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that's it for the teaser. i'll try not to babble through the episode itself.

okay, i lied.

act one. ( i'd want cut tags, so. )

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act two.

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act three:

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act four:

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romeo and juliet

it's not that i ever hope to direct R&J, because it just makes me yawn. but if i ever do -- is there anything in the text that requires friar lawrence to be a father figure? couldn't he be a young guy like romeo and mercutio and the gang? is there any reason the whole mess can't be his fault because he's just not ready for the kind of responsibility he's required to handle?