Big Shot Yogurt

--Yogurt: Had a yogurt n ice cream cone today at the new ice cream parlor on Broadway. The parlor actually had two vegan flavors among their choices, but the spirit of exploration was not upon me and I ordered neither. In fact, I ordered vanilla ice cream, single scoop on a sugar cone. The peach marble - or was it peach melba? - looked interesting. I may order it next time, especially if it is melba. However, since I visit an ice cream parlor only once every three years on average, someone will have to remind me.

--Mr. Big Shot: Doctor gave me a shot today, combined a numbing agent and a steroid. He described the numbing agent as like Novocaine for the shoulder. I felt much better instantly, most likely owing to the numbing agent, though I hope the steroid is busily doing its steroidal work as well. When I left the building I was able to walk at three quarters my normal brisk pace, rather than the half I'd been reduced to. Surprisingly, walking can be one of the most painful things I do, walking being something that naturally jostles the shoulder.

Doctor also told me today that the x-ray showed bone slivers in my shoulder, and though they may have been created in the last couple of weeks, he suspects that they've been there for years; finally, because of some event or trauma to the shoulder, the slivers inflamed the masses tendons, causing the sudden uproar in my shoulder and arm. So I was probably wrong in believing that my novel method of applying sunscreen was at the root of this internal melee. The doctor also decided not to bother with an MRI until he sees me again in six weeks. He said that even if it turns out that the shoulder needs to be operated on, the operation can't happen until I get all my motion back. Otherwise the operation will lock in the current lack of movement, and the arm will be useless for the rest of my life. "So you've got a hard road of physical therapy ahead," he told me. I make my appointment for my first therapy session in a couple of days.

( Combination Hydrocodone And Acetaminophen )

Contexts And Conventions

Didn't seem appropriate to bring this up on the comment thread to Mark's Steven Wells tribute, but one advantage my hallway-classroom formulation has over formulations that divide by type of person (Blots versus Swots) or by type of attitude (playfulness versus seriousness) is that hallway versus classroom describes two different behavioral contexts with two different behavioral conventions, albeit contexts/conventions that people internalize and then carry within them as expectations in regard to what's appropriate behavior in various circumstances. What's important to remember is that someone who has internalized the hallway-classroom split has internalized both sets of conventions.

This doesn't mean that someone will perform equally well in both environments, just that "hallway" and "classroom" don't describe different types of people or different temperaments. And of course there can be good reasons to analyze by type or class of person or by role or by temperament etc. But anyhow, I wonder what an analysis of the Sinker-Wells relationship that mentions the hallway-classroom split would reveal. I barely know anything about Wells, by the way.

First Half Country, 2009

Way behind in my country listening, but my top 10 is already up to 17, and this is only mid year. I'd expect Lex (and possibly Moggy and Cis) to like the womanly tracks by Sarah Buxton and Jamie O'Neal (who have even better tracks than these on their résumés); don't know who if any o' youse over in Britain will like summer breezes like "Runaway" and "Barefoot And Crazy" and "Summer Nights" and "Out Last Night" and "Sideways."

1. Love And Theft "Runaway"
2. Jamey Johnson "High Cost Of Living"
3. Sarah Buxton "Space"
4. Caitlin & Will "Even Now"
5. Taylor Swift "You Belong With Me"
6. Sarah Borges And The Broken Singles "Do It For Free"
7. Taylor Swift "White Horse"
8. Jack Ingram "Barefoot And Crazy (Double Dog Dare Ya Mix)"
9. Brooks & Dunn f. Reba McEntire "Cowgirls Don't Cry"
10. Rascal Flatts "Summer Nights"
11. Randy Houser "Boots On"
12. John Rich "Shuttin' Detroit Down"
13. Jamie O'Neal "Like A Woman"
14. Kenny Chesney "Out Last Night"
15. Dierks Bentley "Sideways"
16. Holly Williams "Keep The Change"
17. Collin Raye "Mid-Life Chrysler"

Top Singles, First Half 2009

Falling behind in my explorations of jerkin' and other phenomena, and even so I'm up to fifty by July 1. Bodes well for December 31.

1. Shystie f. DJ Deekline "New Style"
2. The Black Eyed Peas "Boom Boom Pow"
3. Love And Theft "Runaway"
4. MC Lars f. Brett Anderson & Gabe Saporta "Hey There Ophelia"
5. Timberlee f. Tosh "Heels"
6. The Lonely Island "I'm On A Boat"
7. Das Racist "Combination Pizza Hut And Taco Bell (Wallpaper Remix)"
8. Rich Boy "Drop"
9. Jim Jones f. Ryan Leslie "Precious"
10. Girls Aloud "Untouchable"
( 11 through 50 )