And now I am under doctor's orders to ingest Celebrex, which is an arthritis medication, for a sprained ankle. On the upside, I have arthritic symptoms (pain, swollen joint), even though I'm assuming that I don't have arthritis. On the downside, he only gave me 14 pills, enough for two weeks at the most, and asked to see me again in one month. On the upside, the pills were free.

He also gave me some anti-depressants. We'll have to see how these affect my mood. Over the next two to three weeks you either will or will not recognize a shift in my outlook on life, which is currently this: Life is depressing and ridden with anxiety triggers.

On the upside, I have an inordinantly attractive girlfriend to whom I can talk about things that are implicitly yet profoundly important to me, and she helps me get through the day without enabling my psychopathically depression-filled tendencies. So, that's a plus.

In other news, I spent the last two days at training for my job during which time I doodled a half-dozen or so comic-book images about my life as a under-challenged and disappointingly-employed wanna-be writer. I will spend the next few months scanning front lawns on garbage days looking for an Apple-compatible scanner so I can post these comics. Wish me luck.


- posted by seanmh @ 1:35 PM