it's all in the hips

rain rain, go away,
come on back another day.
if you don't i don't care,
i'll pull down your underwear.

is that how it really goes, because it seems like that must be a combination of a couple of children's rhymes...

but i will tell you that i do feel that way. i'm really sick of dark and rain and cold. and it's only november. my happy thought is simply that all of this rain down here must mean good snow in the mountains. which = fun soon. AND i just discovered that my friends at school like to snowboard too... they just keep getting better!

raise your hand if you think it's stupid for me to run the seattle half marathon in two weeks. even though i've been hurt and haven't been training i'm really tempted to give it a shot anyway. i can't decide if this is the dumbest idea i've had in a long time, if that would be unwise and nothing more than harmful to me, or if i'm being too wussy by staying off of it. as with everything else in life, i have found so much contradictory information about hip flexor injuries. some research says to stay off of it entirely until things are as good as new, some says that as long as the muscle isn't torn entirely it's okay to keep training even through mild to moderate pain.
it may be a bad sign for a future health care worker to be so confused about this seemingly simple problem, but i confess that i have no idea who to believe or what is right. therefore, i'm seeking your expert advice. (maybe jennifer miller the pt is reading???)

i'm going to bed. crazy, isn't it? impressed, aren't you? i have decided that i have to start getting smart about sleeping proper amounts (with me, this will probably last, what--a day and a half?). next quarter i'm in the hospital twice a week and if i keep sleeping so terribly when they start giving me real responsibility, it's going to be scary for everyone in town.

i took some pictures of me in my scrubs last week. stay tuned, i'll post them soon.