Candy and Needles

At the ripe age of 28 I am beginning to feel like a 70 year old. I have neck, back, and shoulder pain on the daily. I have seen a chiropractor, had massages, taken muscle relaxers, etc and the problem will not subside. After the influence of my tree-hugging parents and their love of alternative medicine I am going under the needles. In a little over an hour I will take my first trip to get acupuncture. I don't really know what to expect. Everyone I have ever known to get it gets pregnant. Of course they are there for fertility help, not achy bones. Amazingly though the success rate of women who are trying to get pregnant and get this treatment is astonishing. If I come out of this knocked up, please know that he (Todd, the puncturer)stuck me with more than a needle. In all seriousness I just want a little relief from my back pains.

I am also hoping that after the day that I have had that I get some stress relief. I got to work at 7:30am and it has been nonstop! It's the busy season for campus recruting so EVERYONE on this team needs something. I have been shipping books to Singapore, paying invoices for simulations in NYC, drafting offer letters to college students in Massachusetts, and running to and from a finicky printer all day. It kept telling me there was a jam. There was no jam! I gave up on it and decided to walk to the printer all the way on the other side of the floor (which is actually far...this floor is HUGE and there are parts I have never seen)

It's feast or famine on this team...today it was feast. The only reprieve I have had was the mini box of Nerds that were left on the breakroom table that I helped myself too. Thank you Willy Wonka! Nerds make me happy...but I miss the way they used to come, in a big, plastic, brightly colored Nerd. Does anyone else remember that? It was definitely in the 80's. I think it was a mistake to abandon the Nerd packaging for a cardboard box. Anyhow, though it's not the same with the box, eating Nerds takes me back to childhood and I get giddy popping the mini blobs of sugar into my mouth.

It's a strange conundrum to have the pains of a senior citizen and the mentality of a 7 year old. From Nerds to needles...it's all in a day in this fantastic life!