Only Cool Things
Oct. 11th, 2011 06:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
exhilarationI am doing awesome in my classes online. I am going to have an awesome GPA this semester. (Unfortunately I have so many credits already that whatever grades I get don't make much of a difference, but whatever.) My midterms are due this week, and I HAVE ALREADY FINISHED THEM. (This is because pretty much all I do is do stuff online, but whatever.)
I went to the Renaissance Faire this weekend, which was very fun. My room mate M works there (and kinda lives there right now, but he comes home like maybe once a week or something) and got us in for free. Now, see, as I have mentioned, there is no possible way I can push my regular wheelchair, so I have a rented power chair that I have been using. I've tried to see it as kinda cool - it does go on its own and all, and it can move pretty fast too. When I was in Disney World with Bevan and Jason and Minh, I used an electric scooter, because walking around an amusement part is A LOT of walking, and the more I looked up about "how much does one person walk in a day at Disney" the more I was like, well, shit, I'd better figure something out, cause all the answers were like "oh, 8-10 miles or there abouts" and even at my very, very best, 8 miles is a no-go. Three is about my limit. And using a scooter, although I was kind of a bad driver, WAS in fact quite cool, because I didn't have to be constantly watching the ground paying attention to what was underfoot, and got to instead do stuff like LOOK AT WHAT WAS AROUND ME. So yeah, I could do so much more stuff, but I could actually ENJOY more stuff in a way I totally wasn't even expecting.
But using a power chair has not really been like that. I'm still so sore from surgery that anything that jerks me around is pretty painful to me, so I've been pretty hesitant to try anything "cool" at all. I guess it is "cool" that I can get all the way to the bus stop with zero effort extended, but that wasn't really the kind of cool I was looking for. This weekend at the Faire, tho... yeah it was that kind of cool. Grass, gravel, hills, bumpy ground, WHATEVER. Whatever, it's all fine. No staying away from certain areas. No constantly having to stop and rest. I could go as far as I wanted, wherever I wanted, as much as I wanted, and that WAS cool. Of course, by the end of the day, I felt completely like shit. But the beginning of the day was really nice and fun.
And today I feel fairly decent, so I am going to the mall to shop at the Halloween store for something to wear to school on Halloween. Because I have yet to grow out of that, and likely never will :)
I went to the Renaissance Faire this weekend, which was very fun. My room mate M works there (and kinda lives there right now, but he comes home like maybe once a week or something) and got us in for free. Now, see, as I have mentioned, there is no possible way I can push my regular wheelchair, so I have a rented power chair that I have been using. I've tried to see it as kinda cool - it does go on its own and all, and it can move pretty fast too. When I was in Disney World with Bevan and Jason and Minh, I used an electric scooter, because walking around an amusement part is A LOT of walking, and the more I looked up about "how much does one person walk in a day at Disney" the more I was like, well, shit, I'd better figure something out, cause all the answers were like "oh, 8-10 miles or there abouts" and even at my very, very best, 8 miles is a no-go. Three is about my limit. And using a scooter, although I was kind of a bad driver, WAS in fact quite cool, because I didn't have to be constantly watching the ground paying attention to what was underfoot, and got to instead do stuff like LOOK AT WHAT WAS AROUND ME. So yeah, I could do so much more stuff, but I could actually ENJOY more stuff in a way I totally wasn't even expecting.
But using a power chair has not really been like that. I'm still so sore from surgery that anything that jerks me around is pretty painful to me, so I've been pretty hesitant to try anything "cool" at all. I guess it is "cool" that I can get all the way to the bus stop with zero effort extended, but that wasn't really the kind of cool I was looking for. This weekend at the Faire, tho... yeah it was that kind of cool. Grass, gravel, hills, bumpy ground, WHATEVER. Whatever, it's all fine. No staying away from certain areas. No constantly having to stop and rest. I could go as far as I wanted, wherever I wanted, as much as I wanted, and that WAS cool. Of course, by the end of the day, I felt completely like shit. But the beginning of the day was really nice and fun.
And today I feel fairly decent, so I am going to the mall to shop at the Halloween store for something to wear to school on Halloween. Because I have yet to grow out of that, and likely never will :)
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Date: 2011-10-13 11:43 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-10-13 07:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-10-14 02:16 am (UTC)Glad the the Renaissance Faire went well :)
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Date: 2011-10-14 07:00 pm (UTC)I love costumes!