Well, today is the birthday of Dan Miller, so happy birthday Mr Miller!

Today is also the one-week anniversary of when I hurt my knee, so happy anniversary knee injury! I blame Sufjan. Anyway it's still hurting rather a lot when I go up or down stairs, so I finally made an appointment to go to the Student Care Center on Thursday. I'm pretty sure it's runner's knee (a complete misnomer in my case since I avoid running as much as possible) so I don't think it's going to require any radical treatment, but it could take several weeks or even months until it's back to normal. And I have to say, if it's gonna be weeks and weeks before I can go up and down stairs again without pain, then the rest of this year is gonna be pretty fucking shitty.

Also! We've been having this problem with tiles falling off the bathroom wall so the repair guy came over to fix it. He spent all this morning ripping the walls out and rebuilding them. Then over the next couple of days I guess he's going to put the tiles back on. In the meantime we can't use the shower (although we can take baths). Sigh. Yeah, it's been a rough time.

I think I need a brownie with ice cream on it now.

Oh my god, I hurt my knee so badly last night at the Sufjan show and now I can go up stairs, but not down. This wouldn't inconvenience me so much except that none of the classes I teach are on the same floor as my office. I'm also afraid I'm going to do something terrible to the knee during class and suddenly fall down in extreme pain in the middle of today's phonetics lesson. However, just regular walking feels fine. It's a good thing I live in the nice flat Midwest and not some crazy hilly place like San Francisco (yet, anyway).

More on the Sufjan show later, which was pretty good except for the bitch beside us. She was with a friend—leahrosmerta, I think you might have recognized them. You know, they're part of that group of fans who follow a certain local band and have severe entitlement issues? Yeah, it was two of them and it was hella annoying.

Anyway. Dang, my officemate has a clock on her desk that ticks REALLY LOUDLY. I guess I'll get used to it.