My knee started bothering me a few days ago, and oddly enough, a few days ago I started wearing my flip flops. I had a nagging thought that the knee pain was coming from the flip flops, seeing how my surgeon disapproves of me wearing them. Just for fun, I tried an experiment today, and wore my Keds. Magically enough, my knee pain vanished. That was slightly disappointing, but the pain was unbearable, enough to make me put the flip flops away. If this has served me anything, its motivation to do whatever possible to make my knee strong enough to wear flip flops!
Today was supposed to be an "off" day, but I went to Pilates regardless. I validate this form of being active because I'm not stressing my knee, its mostly core focused. I've decided I really like my pilates class. Its the first thing in a while where someone is demanding excellence from me; correct hand position, correct shoulder position, even correct foot position, if even one toe is slightly out of alignment, Rose is not afraid to let you know about it. For some reason, I thrive off her incessant need for perfection, something I don't find any where else at Clark.
This afternoon, in my usual afternoon boredom, I was stuck with nothing to do. KReeves suggested that I make a paper chain with recycle paper (so green) to countdown the last days at Clark. There are fiftyfour. Fiftyfour didn't seem like such an overwhelming number until I actually constructed the chain. It was sadly so overwhelming that the whole chain made its way into the paper recycling bin in the hall way. It did indeed serve its purpose though, I wasn't bored anymore.
On a more positive note, tomorrow is Friday, and after my Culture & The News midterm, I am free as a bird, and free to be active as well!
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