anti-prose. random matter.
and more afraid about tomorrow....
Published on April 20, 2004 By crimson In Blogging
Every Tuesday night, I feel this way. I've got to stop thinking that I'm some sort of athelete.

So I went to my basketball night, and I thought I was hot piss. I was running up a storm, throwing hard cross-court passes, and scored five remarkable baskets, but it was the final one that seems to have done me in.

I caught Malaka's eye, and psychic-like, knew the play. But everyone forgets that I'm LEFT-handed, and she just launched one at me. And like some 2K Harlem Globetrotter, I caught the pass with my right hand outstretched, brought the ball around me, caught it with my other hand like some freak-windmill and went for the lay-up and almost stuffed the basketball into the net. There were cheers, and even a couple of screams of full-on pleasure in seeing that little bit of b-ball magic... but it's done me in.

I think I've pulled (or rather pinched) a muscle located near my underarm. Strangely, its affected the whole arm, all the way down to my hand. It tingles. It feels like the majority of my hand, well, actually starting from my wrist and working the way to my thumb, and 3 fingers, is asleep. It's all pins and needles, and I'm getting a sharp pain in my elbow from time to time.

I almost don't want to go to bed, for fear of what it might be like in the morning.

But, of course, I'm still blogging...


Comments
on Apr 21, 2004
But, of course, I'm still blogging...


**Smiles**

well at least you have your priorities straight... hehehe
on Apr 21, 2004
Nicky~wow! I admire you for being able to keep up with your blogging~even though your hand and fingers are in such discomfort? That shows real determination and guts. I often end up blogging even though I feel like I can't keep my eyes open another moment? But I have chronic insomnia a lot~so if I go back to bed, I know I'll just end up not falling asleep anyway~so I just blog on big time....

I wanted to thank you again for the cool birthday wishes! I left you a little note on my blog. And I think you are an accomplished poet? Do you got some of your work posted on the poetry section of JU (anti-prose?). I wanna check that out sometime soon. I really have been meaning to~but so much has been going on over here~so I'm sorry I haven't made it over there yet? But I will! All in good time. Because I love poetry with a passion? I read Jeremy's sonnet~and left him a longish comment (I think you might have too?) And I always think it is so cool to read poems by new poets~so I really would like to check out the anti-prose thing pretty soon. Anyway, hope your hand and wrist feel a lot better soon. And thanks again for the totally cool birthday wish~so many JU folks took the time to wish me well, and that helped to make my birthday a really awesome one this time around. So it's a really cool thing. Nicely written blog! I enjoyed it a lot...

~MadPoet

P.S. Did you ever read Jim Carroll's BASKETBALL DIARIES? Very good stuff. And he's a pretty well-known poet too.......