Late, but heartfelt, Congratulations, Dr. Debet!

Wow. Christpher Judge was on a MacGyver episode years before SG1. It's amazing what you can find on deep cable.

It's like Name That Actor on old Twilight Zone eps.

Finished grading, and submitted final grades. Now come the "Please, can I have a higher grade?" emails. One kid has already emailed me three times. I've said no three times. I'm waiting for a fourth email.

Owww. My body is being stupid. Every physical therapist I've worked with has commented that my tense-muscle response to pain is really absurdly exaggerated. Usually, when I'm in physical therapy to work on a particular joint that's been hurting, the first several weeks are spent just getting the muscles around it loose enough so that we can work on it. Right now, I'm in my typical allergy response cycle: sinus pain leads to facial muscles tightening, which clamps down on my eustachian tubes and makes pressure build up in my ear, which makes my ear hurt, which makes the facial muscles tighten even more. And meanwhile, my neck muscles also start tightening, which throws my posture off, which pushes my shoulder a little out of joint, which makes all the muscles around my shoulder start tightening to try to keep it from dislocating, etc. Just took some Vicodin to try to ease the pain and get everything to relax. Also some Mucinex-D, to try to get the sinuses to stop hurting, so that this won't just start all over again tomorrow.

TENSing my shoulder now. It's helping some. The pads aren't in quite the right places, but I can't twist my other arm to get them right without popping out my shoulder.

Ow! I hope you get some relief soon, Hil.

Thanks. I took some Vicodin, and I'm watching Mulan for some distraction.

I have dropped off the face of the planet getting this show up and running. At this point I'm so tired I can't think straight, but I need to finish up some work in the studio. Night A of Sci-Fest opened tonight. Now we just need to finish tech for night B before next Tuesday and then I think I get to find out what sleep is again. At the moment there are almost 700 cues in the main project running the show, and we have 5 more shows to go.

I'm feeling a lot better this morning. Definitely glad I don't need to teach, but well enough to walk a few blocks to drop off some stuff at the food bank downtown. Now, to deal with more emails from students who don't like their grades.