#11.05.13

Patrick Stump and Joe Trohman

The Sitting Problem What happens after a day and a half of driving and a five movie marathon does to your butt…

SO (long dramatic pause) … I had a very interesting weekend that resulted in a pinched sciatica and an unwanted week off. First off let’s talk about the fact that at work I have been sitting with the maintenance engineers when all of my work duties and extras are done. One of the engineers had recently left for a better job at a different location within the same company.

Which leaves me with the other engineer when I am done with my jobs, which usually wouldn’t be a problem, but the one that is left here with me frustrates me to no end because he always tries to put all his work on other people and still get paid for that work.

This last Friday he was getting under my skin more than usual. He had this extremely defeated attitude and it was suffocating. He kept on trying to have me help him with things, interrupting my writing to complain to me and the like. I ended up leaving early so that I could go get my best friend from school 2 hours away, and I left in a very sour mood which meant that I had really decided to use my lead foot. While driving I ended up breaking the GPS 40 miles before my destination and ended up destroying my cigarette lighter in my car as well. All the while sitting and driving.

I started swearing and screaming out to the world my frustrations, then when I finally reached my destination, my best friend tells me that their sibling just got arrested, since obviously they were very upset by this and it was already dark out I had decided to listen and stay up there and sleep on the couch, yes there was a bed that I could have slept on, but I didn’t feel like getting comfy in a bed and not getting up early the next morning.

We leave and get home just about as I was out of gas for my car then to find out that I went all the way up there for my best friend not to spend the rest of the day with me.

By now I am highly annoyed, and decided to hang out with my parents and our friends for the rest of the night. Then the next day I decided to have a Star Trek Movie Marathon with my dog cuddling with me the entire time.

Sounds like a good end to a rather stressful couple days right? Well, I end up going to work yesterday and just as I get out of the car my legs buckle and I am unable to stand without massive amounts of pain. I ended up going home early and going to the doctors to find out through all this sitting I end up with a pinched sciatica nerve. Now I am not allowed to go to work for the rest of this week. (head desk)

So the Life Lessons here are quite a few actually…

·         Don’t recline for an excessive amount of time; it throws your back out of alignment.

·         When watching a Star Trek 5 Movie marathon with your dog, don’t let her pin all 63 lbs on top of you so you can’t move even an inch for 11 hours.

·         When sitting in a car for five hours, do not sit and lay on a cheap couch directly afterword’s for the rest of the night only to get back in the car and drive the next morning.

·         When going to work, try and keep the weight of purses, file totes, and briefcases to a minimum. After all the sitting during the past several days you are bound to get a pinched nerve.

All together I think Karma just wasn’t pleased with me so it thought it was time for me to have a messed up week.

Well I am off to get some food in my stomach and do nothing but lay here… Usually would be happy just laying here. This is an exception.

I want to know who you were, who you are, and who you want to be.

400 LUX/ Lorde

ALL DAY TODAY/ Hospitality

HAROLD T. WILKINS OR HOW TO WAIT FOR A VERY LONG TIME/ Fanfarlo

ME & YOU/ Slow Club

DARTS OF PLEASURE/ Franz Ferdinand

EXCUSES/ The Morning Benders

NEIGHBORHOOD #1 (TUNNELS)/ The Arcade Fire

UPON THIS TIDAL WAVE OF YOUNG BLOOD/ Clap Your Hands Say Yeah

THE HAZARDS OF LOVE 2 (WAGER ALL)/ The Decemberists

THE CIRCLE MARRIED THE LINE/ Feist

I SING I SWIM/ Seabear

STARS/ The xx

SALTWATER/ Beach House

SAMSON/ Regina Spektor

TWO WEEKS IN HAWAII/ Hellogoodbye

LOVE ME THROUGH/ Port O'Brien