Also, math conference on days when I'm not presenting? Jeans and sneakers. I love this casualness. I'd kind of expected that I should wear business casual when I was presenting, and nice but not quite business casual for other days, but I looked at what everyone else was wearing yesterday, and people who didn't have talks or interviews were pretty much all in jeans.

What does the I.C.E. stand for? Compression, Elevation... is the I actually ice? Aw hell.

Hee. I learned it as R.I.C.E: Rest, Ice, Compression, Elevation.

I heard today that Israel will not cease fire until Hamas stops shooting rockets. Is Hamas like the PLO in that the leadership can't really control what everyone who calls himself Hamas is doing in their name?

Hil, you might want to alternate the ice with a warm epsom salt soak to see if that helps, but definitely go to a doctor if you're still in pain tomorrow.

One thing that used to help me when my legs were sore after a long shift waiting tables is lying in an L shape with my legs supported by the wall for about 20 minutes.

Laga, I do that too. Usually with a small pillow under my lower back.

One thing that used to help me when my legs were sore after a long shift waiting tables is lying in an L shape with my legs supported by the wall for about 20 minutes.

Oh, that's AWESOME. Something so simple helps SO much!

Well, I wouldn't. I've give it another day, and then another, and then probably a week or so of hobbling around before I got my ass to the clinic because I am stupid like that. But for a normal person, I would advise another day.

Ha! I am Brenda. I am the person who says, "It's just a flesh wound."

Hil, do you have some compression bandage? Wrapping it, at least while you're at home, might help, because it reduces the stress on tendons as well as reducing swelling.

Kristin, I send you alllll my sleep-ma. Sucks, I know. And I don't have to be somewhere in the morning. Would you like me to describe my bedroom ceiling, in excruciating detail?

Heh. We can change bedroom ceiling descriptions. It will be FUN!

Omnis and Hil, healing~ma to you both. Ouch.

I, too, want to live in Vortex's yesterday.

So I'm relieved. I just had the meeting with the student and the administrator about the plagiarism issue, and all is well. I mean, it sucked, but it went well. Student got a zero and is redoing that section of her paper, but there's enough of a chance that the plagiarism was largely unintentional and she was contrite enough for us to justify not suspending her and having to contact every college she is applying to. Thank the gods that's over and dealt with.

That sounds like the best possible resolution all around, Kristin. Glad it went down like that.