Rainyday Rambling

I am in the middle of my first 8 week accelerated program for my bachelors of gerontology. I enjoy writing, but writing APA style factoid research is tedious and makes my eyes roll in my head. Reading the research makes me think," Can't you even try to make this crap readable"? It's makes even the most interesting subject bland and dull. Perhaps I'm undereducated, but I do know good reading when I read it and brother, this is shite. I'm not sure when this happened or why but YUCK! I hate it!!

I have been pretty much laid up for the last week and in pain for several weeks before that. I have been diagnosed with fairly severe arthritic inflammation of the knee by my orthopedist. This started originally when I lived in my 1920's dream home in Grosse Pointe Park. I had 3 flights of stairs to climb and descend to do laundry and it became nearly impossible to do after 3 years. Yes, I'm fat and need to lose weight, but exercise is nearly out-of-the-question when I can barely walk. I got a big ass shot of cortisone in my knee with a rather large diameter needle and some very viscous fluid and I am feeling a little less inflamed. I walk very strangely because the arthritis has somewhat deformed my knee causing me to walk with my leg projected out at an angle. I am trying to lose the lard and exercise, and my fondest dream at this point is to be able to ride a bike this summer around the lakes in my town. Time and the orthopedist will tell.

While pining for the intellectual stimulation of the city, I find myself much more at ease in the woods. The fact that I have a decent vocabulary, I am working on my college degree, I have several years of retail management and an associates degree
( LOL), have made me a pariah in the retail sector of this community. I am perceived as a threat and can't even get a part time job selling candles and lotions. UGH! I am anxiously awaiting a call from a nursing home in a community 30 miles away about a unit clerk job. They don't have the position defined or posted yet, but I am apparently at the top of their list. Now, if my former employer can live up to their promise of a good reference, I may have a shot, but I trust that person as far as I can throw them so.........

I have been singing a lot lately which is good. I am in a community choir and I do a lot of singing at church. It's a good thing for me to have a diversion other than my studies.

Still hoping to make more human connections that aren't facebook based, but I don't get out much. Also, after some of my facebook experiences, I think I'm better off never seeing actual people anyway LOL!