Flu recovery: the saga continues...slowly.

[missroserose]

Bummer start for the day:  I had to miss my cleaning shift at the yoga studio this morning.  I could've powered through, but I suspect it would've been a Bad Idea for recovery.  Even though my symptoms are mostly gone at this point (aside from a little residual congestion), my energy levels are still ridiculously low, and the last thing I want to do is relapse.  Sigh.  I'd forgotten that the longest and most frustrating aspect of flu recovery is just how ridiculously long it takes to get back up to speed.

Better start for the day:  Pathology reading is DONE!  Holy balls that was a lot of reading, even for me.  I am a veritable fount of knowledge!  Assuming I can remember any of it for the final on Thursday, anyway.

To celebrate, I put a bid on a pair of incredibly impractical, incredibly overpriced, incredibly sexy boots.  I tried them on once at Nordstrom just for the hell of it and loved them; they've been on my Amazon wishlist since, but given that they retail for $300 I wasn't surprised nobody bought them for me.  I'm not honestly expecting to win the auction, but I'm thinking of it more as a vote that someday, maybe, possibly in the very distant future, I'll feel sexy again.  And possibly even go out dancing.

And now, to study for my lower-body-anatomy final.  Practice question:  if a client wears sexy boots all day, which leg muscles would you expect to be short and tight?  Which would be lax?  What techniques would you use to help restore balance between the two groups?  How could you convince her to get you a discount at Neiman Marcus?

Comments

[jamesd]

The lower-body anatomy answers are easy. Which leg muscles would be short and tight? None. Which would be lax? All of them. I would not need to use any techniques. You would surely be seen in those boots by at least one person who would ensure that all of your major muscles get nicely tensed then relaxed, leaving a smile on your face. Which is fortunate, since use of that method at work would not be in accord with ethical expectations. :)

Nordstrom discount. Hmmm. I'm not sure I'd have much use for that, at least not for my own wear. :)

[missroserose]

Hah! Fair point. I might have pooh-poohed you a bit ago, but the boots just arrived and damn are they sexy. :)

[jamesd]

I'll just add boots to my memory of a librarian in a corset a decade or more ago and accept that the boots are sexy, while disagreeing somewhat, since it's the contents that matter more than the packaging. :)

Though when it comes to packaging, there was this time when a woman who couldn't touch or be touched by me bought a very clingy red dress to show herself off to me. Now, if that happened more often I'd have much more use for a Neiman Marcus discount! :)

I'm not sure how I transformed Neiman Marcus to Nordstrom in my first reply. Maybe because it's the high end store I'm most familiar with, in name if not ever having actually visited one.

[missroserose]

I've actually never been to Neiman Marcus. It seems to be about on a level with Nordstrom in terms of prices/quality, and being a Pacific Northwest girl I'm more likely to hit up Nordstrom on those rare occasions when I want to go the overpriced-but-excellent-service department-store route. (Although I do get quite a few of my clothes these days from Nordstrom Rack, especially on clearance. Including a couple of short skirts to go with the aforementioned boots. :)