Slippage

Oh wow... my back is in a bad way. Working with the difficult client I mentioned in my last post I managed to hurt my back somehow. No clue how, I just discovered when I tried to stand up from sitting there all morning that my lower back twinged and I could barely stand up straight. It was better yesterday morning but bad again by afternoon. Now this morning I was just washing and cutting up fruit for a salad when WHAM, the muscles on both sides of my lower spine, just above my butt, spasmed and I nearly dropped to the floor. Again, no warning and no clue why. It's happened twice more so that now I'm scared to move; scared to breathe. The residual ache is climbing up the right side of my back to my shoulder. WTF? Is this more of that 'getting old' shit or did I actually injure myself somehow? The living room is a mess (where my desk lives) but I'm scared to even reach down and pick up the wastebasket for fear I'll never walk again. Just what I need to add to my litany of grad school woes. Hmph!

Then what is it with this weather, anyway? Looking at my Twitter I see I was whining about being cold, then melting and now it's windy and cold yet again. Weird stuff, that!

Ok, so that's it for the pissing and moaning (as long as my back doesn't spasm again). I'm off to scare up a set of assignments and homework for my syllabus, which will be complete after today... yea! The next big assignment is to create a teaching portfolio. Seeing as I have never really taught that will really just be a CV. I have a small project to do, too, but then the class will be over after the 7th week and we'll have three weeks free. Kewl!

We're going on a field trip in my social psych class in a few weeks. We'll be joining in a fire ceremony with the Chumach tribe on their reservation. Can't wait for that one; it should be fascinating!

Been having fun playing with the D-KEFS and will give my first official administration this Friday (I hope, my prof forgot to schedule the client last week) so I'm nervous about that. Will have to miss the faculty meeting where I usually serve on the student steering committee, but oh well. I'm learning how to let stuff go.

Tidbit of the week: the Guinness Book of World Records for the bird with the largest vocabulary goes to Puck, a little blue Budgie (parakeet) at 1,728 words!

http://birdwithmostwords.com/

For a good read go to the link at the bottom for more info and read what his keeper wrote about his anecdotes and his development. She chose his name well...