im becoming aware of my new alias: Inevitabley Injured Ingrid....

as some of you may or may not have known, before my departure to England, i cought a weird, unexpected and explosive cough. it is still my theory that i got it from weird tree/bush germs and or/smoke molecules stuck in my room form a big bon fire that we had used to burn extra shurbbery........anyways, in my mind, i had a living plethora of shrubbery smoke particles in my lungs causing me to wildly and uncontrollably cough alllllllllllllllllll the time, as hard i could to get the junk out of my lungs.

well, after so much of this, my body said 'screw this' and my right rib popped out of place from all the flexing of my muscles used to cough (i guess they're not suppoed to get that much of a workout ;) and i was in a LOT of pain before i even knew what was wrong (bowling and running are NOT two activties i recommend for rib pain....fyi).

anyhoo, i had that before coming here, and even now i sometimes feel weird twinges around my rib muscles after vigorous workouts....and NOWWWWWWWWWWWW i have managed to sprain the tendon of my right big toe (the one that sticks up when you bend your foot back) from running or doing something. immense pain began in the morning on my way to london with a friend....and since i had no other shoes with me, i beared thru the pain all day (not an easy task). so i went to the doc yesterday and she said its just a sprain and i needed to rest it. so for the past (seems like FOREVER) week i havent swam, ran, lifted....could barely walk for most of the week....just hobbled along. but i did some foot stretches last night and it feels a bit better today..we'll see how it feels after ive walked on it some.

so, thats it. my deadline for myself is to hand in my dissertation on WEDNESDAY (lots of prayers pleaaaaaaaaaaaase so i can accomplish this!) cuz i feel i am so almost there! just revising/editing and fixing stuff up.

thats all for now. a long 2 weeks and im back home! yikes and yay.