Day 16

Wow, I hurt after yesterday. I guess I can't push myself that hard every day yet. I even had to put a brace on my knee.

Speaking of which, after seeing my bill for the x-rays I had taken of my knees, I'm going to go ahead and put the MRI on hold for now. Either my insurance sucks or these things just cost too dang much. I'm sure my knees won't hurt so much if they're not having to carry so much weight. My feet too for that matter.

Work was OK. I'm no longer holding my breath over that email thingy I was waiting for. We'll be fine, come what may. Right now I'm really just looking forward to spending the labor day weekend away from this hole.

It's easy to get overly excited about going somewhere new when you're in a place you literally hate. This place is so not us. I don't even feel like I'm speaking the same language as the locals. It's like I'm not even of the same nationality. I was more comfortable in Kosovo. At least there the people had a reason for their low standard of living.

I want to go to a place where people don't add apostrophes to plurals; where they know the difference between your and you're; where they don't stare at you blankly should you accidentally wax multisyllabic; where not going to church isn't considered criminal; where being anything other than white doesn't automatically make you a suspect or an enemy of the state. Is there even such a place in this country any more?

Green Day said it best, "I don't want to be an American idiot."

/rant

Day 16: 3.25 miles # 3mph. Yeah, the bare minimum, but hey, I was spending my evenings on the couch before, so there!

Again, I say, Nyah!