Craigslist and moving
Written by Jess on Wednesday, 30 of July , 2008 at 1:48 am
New hauls from Craigslist
$50 forum posting gig at Toggin.com
$15 for a purple bike that just needs air in the tires
$10 for a 4×6 slatted bamboo rug
$15 for a brand new desk
$30 for a brand new hand vacuum. Yes, expensive but it’s pretty and works really well and is cordless. And I couldn’t put off vacuuming bird seed and feathers for much longer.
Now just have to cut a deal for cable and internet because paying shitastic Time Warner $102 a month for sub par service is robbery.
On another exciting note, I have peroneal insertional tendonitis. How do I know? I did the hypocritical thing and self diagnosed my injury. But having taken a human anatomy class, and sat through a 2 hour guest lecture by a podiatrist, I think I have more leeway than the patient who storms in the waiting room with googled printouts saying he as cancer when it’s only a strep infection. I failed a quiz because I couldn’t remember what the peroneal tendons were. And now it’s coming back to get further revenge.
I started wearing my really worn in Aeropostale ballet flats again, that I bought four years ago for $5. Wore them religiously for the longest time, hiked through a rainforest, ran through Sydney beaches, in airports, around campus, you get the drift. They were the most comfortable shoes I owned. However the soles are worn down to almost nothing and the glue is wearing off. So walking around dirt and gravel on shortcuts through campus wearing them this past week put a ton of stress on my tendon and eventually inflamed it. And now it hurts like hell to put any pressure on it, so walking is agonizing. Sharp pain that throws off my balance if I try.
Funny twist is, I have an excuse to wear my high heels now. Seems counterintuitive since heels are the source of a myriad of foot problems, but the treatment is to wear ‘heel lifts’ to keep stress off the tendon and let it heal. They’re foam cushions you’re supposed to put under your heel to lift it up. Why do that when I have a massive collection of pretty shoes I never get to wear? And lo and behold, I slip on my sexy pumps and it DOESN’T HURT TO WALK ANYMORE. The pain completely goes away.
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