July already?

[chanaleh]

The 4th: Enjoyed the "Cambridge Esplanade" very much. Got to see Joy & Ben for the first time in ages. Fireworks were superb as usual, including a bunch of effects I've never even seen before. Plus, among the folks that turned up by evening were adamhmorse and Anise, and with them mrmorse... and I don't care what any of you say, it was good to have my boy by my side. In whatever capacity.

Elsewise, had a fairly quiet weekend. Saw Spider-Man 2 after shul on Friday night. As noted by navrins, saw King John, which I also enjoyed. Helped Matthew get a couple of resumes out, which is a trend to be reinforced! Went to a low-key quasi-pool-party and a low-key Menschen rehearsal sing-along. Paused rereading Order of the Phoenix to reread Chamber of Secrets, which JKR says holds "some very important clues to the ultimate end of the series"...

Must establish a new e-mail solution, and soon. (Go on using chanaleh at livejournal, I'll be sure to alias that appropriately.)
Must make a list of everything else I need to do, for work AND home.

I would feel better if I didn't have this ache in my hip for the second day running. Not the joint so much as the muscle: the TFL, as near as I can tell. Right side only, arrrgh. I'm trying to stretch it but it's difficult, especially when sitting all day. This reinforces my longing for a professional therapeutic massage; maybe once my reimbursement check (for that other therapy) comes through -- which I badly need, any day now, please. Meanwhile, I shall go walk around and stretch for the rest of my lunch hour.

Comments

[meranthi.livejournal.com]

They had smiley faces!!!!!!!!

[bluepapercup]

Those were pretty great :) I watched them on TV from out of state!

[meranthi.livejournal.com]

If I ever acquire more invites to g-mail, do you want one?

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

Thanks... Been thinking about that, sort of. I think ablock had one he offered me, so I might take him up on it, at least as an interim measure.

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

Next time I see you, I can try to work on the muscle a bit, if you want.

[navrins]

I can provide a POP or IMAP account if you want one, at least for temporary. It's been pretty reliable for me.

[bluepapercup]

I also can't believe it's July. Wow.

Must establish a new e-mail solution, and soon.

You using World? I'm hearing about the fuckage from all over. I guess that I am well and truly glad that I still use my email from the ISP I was on when I still lived at my parents' house and first got on the Internet, many years ago. It's aliased to the gills at this point.

I would feel better if I didn't have this ache in my hip for the second day running.

Moist heat might help relax it. A hot bath, or better yet, towels that have been soaked in hot, hot water. Sometimes massage schools (of which there are a few in Boston) give discount massages. P'haps you could look into this as an option?

[bethr.livejournal.com]

Appropos of nothing except that we couldn't find your email address, S. and i decided that these new "semi-candid" photos we have of Tori Amos (part of a boxed CD set) look rather like you.

Actually, we decided, they also look rather like Sonia. So does that mean that you, Sonia, and Tori Amos all look alike? What a thought...

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

Oooh, how was King John?

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

Worth seeing! -- Well, any excuse to go to Concord on a lovely summer evening is worth pursuing, really. And the play itself would have been less interesting (never mind harder to follow) if there weren't about a 50% character overlap with Lion. But I did think the performances were good, in the main. And Town Cow sounds like an interesting group.

JKR

[chenoameg.livejournal.com]

Well that cost me an hour :)
Not that I regret the hour, I just didn't expect reading this morning's LJ to take an hour. But when I had to read all of JKR's site...

[navrins]

I just got a 3-day bounce from world. It doesn't say WHY it couldn't deliver it... just

Deferred: Connection reset by europe.std.com.
Message could not be delivered for 3 days
Message will be deleted from queue

email

[76trombones.livejournal.com]

Some people seem to use panix. I know little about it beyond that, though.

[darlene-ford.livejournal.com]

Speakeasy has been pretty good to me as an ISP. They don't have ADSL, or even a decent dialup connection in my current location because we're too far from the telephone exchange, but I still use them for e-mail. E-mail has been very reliable. They have optional SPAM filtering, which can be configured to dump all of your SPAM into a folder so that you can sanity check it before deleting it.

Which stretches have you been trying for the TFL?

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

Lunges in various directions, and a bit of this sort of thing. Which does seem to help loosen it up temporarily; I just have to make more of a regimen of it, I suspect.

[darlene-ford.livejournal.com]

This might also be worth a try. It works well for me.

It's really important to hold the stretches long enough, about 30 seconds, or about 10 seconds after you feel the muscle starting to loosen up. If you have trouble holding it that long, you are pulling too hard. Always coax sore muscles rather than applying brute force. You may find that your body is more cooperative with stretching after a few minutes of light exertion to get blood flowing to the sore muscle.