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Introverted

by Dennis••1•Posted inJournal

Lately, my social schedule has been pretty busy. I enjoy having stuff to do, seeing my friends, partying with them, hanging out with them, helping them out or having them help me out. I enjoy keeping close touch (though I admit I’m not very good at it when it comes to some long distance friendships) and regularly touching base.

Having said that, I’m also noticing that with time, my introverted nature is getting more pronounced and that the moments that I need to lock myself away and spend time by myself are coming around more frequently. Whether it’s gaming, coding something, watching some television or reading a book, these moments become more valuable as time goes on.

I wonder if this is because at my advancing age I am simply less capable of toughing it out and red-lining my social life, or whether my introverted nature is getting more entrenched, like a river etching itself into the bedrock. Regardless, I want to apologise to anyone if I haven’t been keeping in touch with you as regularly as I should, or haven’t been as socially available as before.

It’s not you, it’s me.

Funeral Music

by Dennis••0•Posted inJournal

When I die, I want the piano version of Max Richter’s Departure to play on a loop until everyone cries. Those who aren’t crying after the second minute are clearly my enemies who came to celebrate my demise. Feel free to murder them once the two minute marker is reached.

Mido Multifort Special Edition II – M005.430.36.051.80

by Dennis••0•Posted inJournal

This was a bit of an impulse buy yesterday as I was window shopping at Dublin airport. I love the PVD finish on the 42 millimeter stainless steel case as well as the deployment clasp. And the extra bracelet makes it a versatile watch that can easily be paired with different outfits. I was surprised at the price, considering it was outfitted with front and back sapphire crystal with anti-reflection treatment. The movement is a Caliber 80, which is a modified ETA C07.621 (25 jewel, 3hz) movement, which gives the seconds hands a nice even sweep.

Ankle Trouble

by Dennis••0•Posted inJournal

Meet my right ankle, it’s been very, very bad. Early November, during training, my ankle locked up as it is wont to do. I couldn’t get it to unlock before my patience ran out so I decided to continue training with a locked ankle, which wasn’t ideal but it didn’t bother me too much. The next day I woke up and it had swollen up to the size of a tennis ball. Eew.

It remained swollen for longer than I was comfortable with, so after quite a bit of bullying from friends and family, I ended up going to my doctor. After hearing the trouble that I’ve been having with that ankle since I was six, I was sent on to an orthopaedic specialist at the hospital.

There they made the x-rays you can see above and informed me that I had about a dozen bone splinters rummaging around in my ankle, which is bad. It was explained to me like there was a hand full of pebbles tossed into a gearbox. Also, some of the edges had grown spurs which were impeding the full range of motion of my ankle. All bad.

I had an MRI made to see if there was any damage to any ligaments or any swelling inside the joint. It turns out there was. One of my outside ligaments had lost much of its strength and apparently required some “stitching” because the bone fragments had likely caused damage to it.

The advice I got was to have surgery to clear up all the debris from my join, shave down some of the bone spurs, have that ligament stitched up in order to reinforce it, drill a few holes in my fibula and pull the ligament through and attach it on the other side in order to tighten the whole ankle up. Recovery time? Six weeks of a cast, and at least another six weeks of fysiotherapy.

Fuck me.