July 3, 2003

• I'm a huge fan of the human body. It's one of the coolest things there is. If you spend too long with your head turned sideways looking at the screen for the machine you're installing Linux onto, you strain a muscle in your neck. And when you go to bed, the muscle starts healing itself, which means you wake up the next morning unable to support the weight of your head.
  
  And then, over the next few days, your neck heals itself over time, until you can support your head, and then you get back your range of motion, and then the pain is just a dull ache in your shoulder, and then it goes away.
  
  And then you begin to pay attention to your posture, because you're grateful to have a posture to pay attention to.
  
  I haven't quite gotten the full range of motion, but the pain is a dull ache. No panicky tensing of muscles today. Every time I stretch my shoulders, the left one pops and crackles like faraway fireworks.
  
  I can feel the real culprit: A tiny muscle connecting my skull to a vertebra about midway up my neck. It feels like it was replaced with steel cable, and is tender to the touch. Ok, maybe not steel. But still.
  
  In other news, my psoas has decided to give up the limelight to the neck muscles. Why try to garner all the attention? it asks. It's given up trying, and this makes me happy. No doubt it took this attitude because I haven't been sitting at the computer all day for the past few days.
  
  Anyway. The body. It's cool.

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