A Conversation with
Elizabeth
1999
Got Yours Lost Mine
From:
Elizabeth
To:
LMixson@PEC.com
Sent: Monday, June
14, 1999 10:04 AM
Subject: Got Yours Lost Mine
I got your message and had written a reply, but lost it when I got an
error message. That hasn't happened in ages, but I did not have
time to rewrite.
I left Fri. at 10 to go to a library meeting. Its one of the few
times I get off campus (four times a year). Everyone goes to lunch
afterwards, but I have started taking the afternoon off, skipping their
lunch, and doing my own thing, which is a treat to have an afternoon
off. My task for the afternoon was to find shoes. (I wanted to go
see Star Wars, but I literally HAD to get shoes.) I'm having a
hard time finding shoes because I have a slight deformity on my left
foot and there are very few shoes I can wear anymore. I'm even
very worried that I won't be able to find a pair of hiking boots.
If a shoe binds across the top of my foot at all, my foot will hurt so
bad its unbearable. You can have an operation done to correct it,
its quite common, but it involves putting a screw in the bone.
YECH.
My orthopedist said the best thing to do was get shoes that don't hurt.
Which works--I have no problem--if I can find the shoes. I had to
give away most all of my shoes recently as I could not wear them.
I did finally found some shoes, after much frustration, and bought three
pair of the same kind (different colors) as I found being out shopping
VERY hot, VERY frustrating, and VERY irritating. It seems that
stores these days are just packing the aisles with as much merchandise
as possible, its just a glut of stuff.
Also, the women and their screaming kids, and their strollers, etc.
really got on my nerves. Plus it was so frustrating to try on
shoes and have the right one fit, but the left one wouldn't. Well,
I was glad to have the afternoon to get this done though, as my shoe
situation was next to nothing.
It took me THREE hours, because I had to go to three stores. My
treat for the day ended up being buying some fresh flounder for dinner
and going home for an early dinner. Ironically, after buying these
new shoes, I rebelled this morning and wore track shoes to work.
ALL technical support staff in the hospital wear tennis shoes, all of
them, as do alot of the resident physicians. Its okay for them,
but "office staff" which is just about everybody else, isn't supposed
to. Tennis shoes make it so much easier to hike in from the
parking lot and also go to the mailroom which is miles away. The reason
I had no shoes was my last pair tore up when I had to walk through
flooded sidewalks to my car here at work. (I did bring a pair of
"office" shoes with me though.) Not much else at all happening.
I went to a play this weekend put on by women from the local women's
prison. It was quite good. It was presented earlier in town,
but I missed it. I just happened to see the announcement on a
church billboard. A director got a grant to do a community service
project and she helped the women put it together. Basically though
they wrote it from their own words, about regrets, or abuse, or missing
their children. It was quite good. Otherwise I studied and
watched some old movies on t.v. I didn't want to come to work.
Its not the work, except that its slow again, which makes it hard, but
mostly the routine--I call it dragging in every day. Have to go, a
call came in. Elizabeth
Updated: 04-28-2024