something moderately irritating that keeps happening to me is that i keep getting confronted with things that i won’t be able to do for a long time.

for example: riding my bicycle. i like to ride my bike. i used do it fairly frequently. now, of course, i can’t actually put any weight on my wrist, as if i could even bend it at this point, so i have no chance of riding my bike — which has straight, mountain bike handlebars. I could get new, more cruiser-like handlebars, or I could get a new bike. if i did get new handlebars, i’d have to do do some other customization as well (frankenbike represent!), as right now, my seat post is very tall, and i lean forward a lot. i like the Santa bike. and i like it as is. none of these options is particularly attractive.

and yesterday, i watched disk five of the queer as folk season one dvd set, one episode of which features brian bowling. i will not be bowling anytime soon. i used to like to bowl. i’m not very good at it anymore, but i bowled in a league in the eighth grade, so i still like to play around sometimes. before, my wrists were fairly shot due to carpal tunnel anyway, so i really could only bowl for one game, but now i can’t bowl at all — and i have no idea when i will be able to. and this sucks.

there are other things too, but i won’t bore you with the details. suffice it to say i’m cranky.

this, on top of being told i’m probably going to have arthritis real soon now.

bah.