Wednesday, April 14, 2004

second of three recycled blog entries from an old blog of mine...

Tomorrow, I have a thing at 1:00 at Salon Uru Khu. Very chic. They greet you warmly, give you a scalp massage and make you herbal aromatherapy tea before applying burning hot wax to your face and tearing your hair out by the roots. It's all the rage with the jet set. Especially the jet set that would look like Groucho Marx if they didn't pay $25 every six weeks to have their eyebrows and mustache ripped out by perky, trendy young 20-something's. Thank God I don't mind wearing matronly swimsuits. 'cause I'm thinking that "cooling, calming Aloe Gel" is ineffective enough on an offended brow ridge, or upper lip... If you are wondering why I haven't had an entry for a while, it's because I am in pain. I did a dumb thing the other day...last Friday, actually. I was practicing the first Chinese broadsword form...because it's cool, because it scares the neighbors,and because it is the only Chinese broadsword form I know. Anyway, there are two front rolls, and one back roll in the form...and I have done these things dozens of times...but for some reason, this particular day, I screwed up a front roll, and completely hosed my shoulder. There is a huge bruise, there is swelling...there is only about 60 percent range of motion remaining. Strangely enough, I have nothing clever or funny to say about that... ...except maybe that the facial wax appointment tomorrow won't seem nearly so unpleasant... ...maybe tomorrow is the time to try that "full Brazillian" thing I've been hearing so much about. It couldn't hurt THAT much worse...could it?