Weekend Fun...and Pain

i met up with my chp research paper peeps at vivocity sushi tei last saturday. it's really such a blessing that although this chp grouping was randomly assigned we all somehow managed to work so well together. food wasn't fantastic but the company was smashing, not to mention the exciting conversations that sprung up around the table. i think ours was the noisiest table in the restaurant that night! those conversations carried on after dinner when we moved to the promenade on the third floor. we talked till past midnight, about ambulance calls to an infamous chain of hotels, secondary school life, and throwing grenades in the army. the gathering brought back memories of those crazy chp days with the door-to-door surveys, revision upon revision of the paper, and the many dinners which we had. the next outing is being planned, and i can't wait.

sprained my left thumb during dance on saturday morning. was pushing off from the floor during recital rehearsal when i felt a searing pain in my carpometacarpal joint. my first thought was that i had sustained a gamekeeper's thumb, but it's not swollen and only moderately tender, so i self-medicated with ice packs and ketotop. it got better over the weekend but i aggravated it while attempting to perform an anterior drawer and lachman's today. argh. it's quite delibitating to have a less-than-functional thumb -- i can't tie up my hair, can't open bottles and can't flip through my textbooks the usual way. it's something like a taste of my own medicine since i end up wincing in pain whenever i overextend the joint. the irony is that now i'm supposed to do all these stress tests to diagnose another person's injury and at the same time aggravate my own. fantastic.

spiderman on thursday after osces. yes! and to all the seniors who start their housemanship this week -- jia you!