Another visit to the doctor on a sunny, cloudless, warm spring day. No surgery talk just yet… I got another shot, this time into a deeper tendon. I still have pain, so I have another visit in two weeks at which time he’s going to try giving me a shot way deep into my wrist (”about halfway through”) to see if that reduces the pain at all. All the shots I’ve had so far have been into the tendons and through the underside of my wrist… not very painful or anything. I can deal with the sharp but short-lived pain of an injection better than I can deal with a long dull throbbing and at times sharp pain. Wait. That’s the kind I’ve been dealing with for a year now. Ha. How about that?

So, as I was saying, the sun was shining. A harsh, glaring, unrelenting sun beating down without a single cloud to soften its blow… and today was the first time I went to turn on the A/C in the car since I was stuck in traffic and there was no breeze coming through the open windows… only to find that I’m out of coolant.

So I need to take the car into the service center to have them recharge the A/C. That might cost me under a $100; it might cost me a lot more if the problem isn’t just that it needs recharging. I don’t look forward to it, but the warm weather is upon us and this girl can’t breath outside air for too long without sneezing, getting a runny nose and watery eyes (all of which are currently in play).

Tonight, I watched, “Orlando” with Tilda Swinton. Sooo good. It’s one of those movies that I could have seen myself watching for a class in college (gender studies or literature, since it’s based on a Virginia Woolf novel and deals with issues of gender/sexuality over a span of 400 years… kind of a less preachy “Picture of Dorian Gray” in a sense) and then would have purchased at Kim’s or TLA Video or ordered from Facets to add to my collection.

I’m heading off to bed. I got very little sleep last night and while I’m not terribly tired at this point, I think I can get there rapidly if I read or do some crossword puzzle craziness.