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So, ever since High School (7-8 years ago), my knee has had a tendancy to randomly “pop” out of place. Not in any exciting way, either. My friend Tom has always had knee issues, and he got into a lot of trouble after smashing into someone at high speeds on top of a snowy mountian. Not me though. Instead, my leg pops out after doing rather mundane things like plugging in the vcr or, you know, standing.

An intelligent person would have had this checked out long ago, but not me. Usually I just suck it up, kick it around until it gets back into place, and deal with slight discomfort for an hour or so. Please don’t confuse this with me being ‘macho’, it has more to do with laziness than manliness. Recently, things have taken a turn for the worse, and last friday I couldn’t get it back into place at all. The pain was just too great.

Alyssa took me to the ER, where they poked and pulled and xrayed and eventually ended up injecting a numbing agent into the center of my knee. After that we were able to get it straight and put a brace on it to keep it that way. This basically left me in horrible, horrible pain until monday evening when it seemed to slip back into place and I could hobble around a bit. I limped around school yesterday for 12 hours, and to my surprise I didn’t need too many meds to keep the pain down.

Today I was able to walk into the Orthopedist’s office where they did some more poking, and apparently I have a problem with my meniscus (a piece of cartilage), which could either be torn or folded inside my knee. I get to go in for an MRI soon, so maybe I’ll have some colorful pictures of my trauma to show you.

Regardless of what the specifics of the damage are, it looks like I’ll have to have arthroscopic surgery on the area. I’m not too excited about laying in bed on medications for another weekend, but if it means that I don’t have to deal with this again I guess I’m for it.

This is a semi-personal Journal entry, most journal entries don’t show up on the first page unless they’re important, but you can always get to them by clicking on the “Journal” link on the right of the blog.

So over the holiday break there was some major drama at my place. I don’t really want to publicize it online, but let’s just say it was a big scare for me and I didn’t really get a lot of time to digest it.

Anyhow, I’m doing much better now, and I just kinda wish there was more things to do to take my mind off the whole deal. School doesn’t start until the end of the month, and my work was supposed to have a lot of stuff lined up for me, but it doesn’t seem like that’s the case.

On the upside, I’ve gotten a lot of reading done, and am starting to make some progress (or is it catching up?) on the furiousnetworks front.

Catch ya later.

The grades are in (unofficially), and looks like did pretty well. I did receive my first C in college, but I also aced a statistics course which I had serious concerns about even passing. woo!

This all means that I will be attending SFSU in the spring with a transfer GPA of 3.57. How cool is that?

My classes at SFSU in the spring are also something to get excited about, here they are:

• Intro to World Affairs (basic intro to IR course, shouldn’t be too hard)
• International Crisis Simulation (sounds exciting)
• U.S. Foreign Policy (reportedly insane teacher also teaches covert warfare classes)
• Model U.N. (everybody loves this class).

Unfortunately they’re all 4 unit classes, so I get to work and take 16 units AGAIN this next semester, but at least there’s no math…

Pretty much done with all the gift-getting, Alyssa really helped me out with all that this year while I was taking my finals. I highly recommend outsourcing your gift-purchasing next year, it did wonders for my stress levels.

Well, I just finished my 4th major final, only 2 more to go. One of them I’m not worried about (it’s a take home), but tomorrow’s statistics final is scaring the shit out of me. I’ve got a C right now, and I HAVE to pull a C in the class to transfer.

On top of that my mom’s coming into town, so Alyssa and I are running around getting ready for the holidays.

On a good note, I registered for classes, and got into the ones I need (even though it means I’ll be in school for like 12 hours on tuesdays, blah).

Welp, onto more math. aaaaaah again!

OH, and the peeps at the Starbucks by my school are wary of me, since I always know the trivia question and get a free shot added. Today’s question was “What were the first pair of sneakers called?” Read extended body for the answer.

Mmmm venti pepermint mocha with 5 shots of espresso.