What I did the day after my interviews of doom

It was a nice day.

• Exercised with some good books.
• Had some juice.
• Folded clothes, did laundry, dusted, vacuumed.
• Basked in the sun reading another good book and ignoring the sidelong glances from other people in the courtyard as they tried to figure out what form of domestic violence could possibly result in the horrible swelling and bruising on my back and the resulting stiffness in my movements. (Even if the skin looks like this, I figure it can still get happy from the sun, right?)
• Did not obsessively deconstruct the interviews because I did that yesterday.
• Cut my fingernails!!!!!
• Had a sandwich and some milk.
• Caught up on email tasks I had been putting off prepping for the interview.
• Wrote thank you follow-up letters to my interviewers.
• Put lotion on my incipient and ridiculous sunburn. (I was only out for 4 chapters!  I swear!)
• Had some ramen and peas.
• Watched some DVDs.
• Wrote some blog posts.
• Put more lotion on the sunburn, admiring its randomness.
• Went to bed.
• Got out of bed when the fire alarm went off and staggered outside and shivered and coughed (and read) for a long time before I was allowed back into the apartment building where I went back to bed.

Ahhhhh. Refreshing.

Just to let you know I'm still alive

Well, that was a bit of a blog break.  I had some last minute job applications that suddenly came my way and needed to be completed, and the only thing I could steal time from was blogging.  I apologize.

So, I'll be honest: acupuncture hurts.  Those people who tell you it doesn't are lying or perhaps experiencing more nerve problems than I am.  Or maybe they mean "It's nothing to cry over" when they say "It doesn't hurt at all." 

It's not constant pain or anything.  It's normal for it to hurt for less than 30 seconds, which was true for me except in the very worst places that are so sore from hurting for so long that I don't think they can transmit any response but pain.  Hoping that will change.

The acupuncture lady said quite seriously that I was kind of a mess, which I found endearing.  She also said, "For what you've been through, you seem remarkably . . . sane."  (I especially liked the ellipsis, which you could actually hear. :)

What sanity I still possess is thanks to God, my family, and you.  So thanks.