september mama

so i can't remember the last time i was able to see my nether-regions. at this point it's physically impossible... a few weeks ago i attempted to "mow the lawn" a bit--i will have a lot of people staring at it relatively soon, after all--but it was SO hard without being able to see what i was doing! there is just no way to view it from my angle, and i'll be danged if i'm going to bring a mirror into the bathtub just to shave... anyway it would be backwards and i'd probably mangle myself.

i don' t know, i think that's kind of amusing. i've never had a body part that i couldn't see (or reach) before. at this point my feet are basically off-limits too, unless i am sitting down and can bring them to my hands--bending to touch them just ain't gonna happen. my balance is wacked AND the baby is in the way!

it's funny. i'm not crippled or anything, but man, i'm certainly not my relatively nimble, athletic self anymore! sometimes i feel crippled. yesterday i was walking around campus and i passed a dude in a wheelchair and he smiled at me as if to say "hey, you're like me" and the funniest part was, i was thinking the exact same thing. it was awesome.

tonight we are going to a lecture by this guy on "collapse: how societies choose to fail or succeed" (sponsored by the place i work). should be interesting... matt's got his first book guns, germs, and steel and liked it well enough.