Great Start To A Long Week

Yesterday when I got back to campus after a day at the pumpkin patch, I was feeling great. A little bit of a cold but other than that I was healthy. I met with my group to finish our project, then went back to my room and got three-quarters of my homework done before going to dinner and rehearsal. Everything was normal, rehearsal went until about 11:30, then I came back and finished the rest of my homework. I was in bed no later than 2am.
At 6am I woke up in agonizing pain. I could not bend my knee at all without a sharp pain shooting through my knee. I couldn't see any bruises or other injuries. My bed is too far from he wall for me to have bumped against it. I started getting nauseas from the ridiculous amounts of pain, so I decided I had better find a way to get to a doctor. I called Tracy, who was fabulous enough to drive me to the ER at 6:30 in the morning and stay with me until 9:30.
We got there and registered, then sat in an empty waiting room for about an hour before I was wheeled into the back and given a bed. We waited around some more and the doctor finally came in and reaffirmed what I already knew. There was no outward sign of trauma, no swelling, and no fluid accumulation within my knee. So I went and got X-rayed (by a VERY good looking young guy, of course it's about 8am, I have my glasses on, nappy hair, haven't brushed my teeth, and my face is puffy from crying. I regretted not taking a few minutes to make myself look presentable lol) Anyway, the X-rays come back and there is nothing wrong with my knee according to them. So the doctor decided that there must be some kind of inflammation in my knee and I just need a brace. So now I'm gimping around with a knee immobilizer. It sucks. I only ended up missing one class today though. I was back on campus by 10 and in class at 11.
This wouldn't be so bad, except that my show opens on Wednesday. I have to go on-stage for it. So tonight I decided to test my knee and see if I could do my little bits without the brace. I was fine. I took the brace off before i went on and put it back on when I came off. I got yelled at by the Stage Manager, the director, the set designer, the lighting designer, the light board op, and probably a few others for doing this, but oh well I'm fine.
In other news, I want to kill this little bastard in our show. He is the most disrespectful little creep I have ever had to work with. He started off by being very bossy toward the stage manager Nora, the other ASM Michelle, and me. I don;t stand for that nonsense so Nora and I put a stop to that. He is still a Prima Donna even though he has about 7 lines in the entire show. Anyway, what really set me off is that he talked back to Marjean today. Marjean is the costume guru here at SUCO and she is pretty much to most fabulous person ever. No one dislikes Marjean. Well this little twit lost a piece of his costume and when Marjean asked him to go look for it he told her no because it wasn't his job. I was sitting right there and i wanted to punch him. He continued to refuse to do what she told him, then he told her he wasn't wearing a different pair of glasses just to see how they worked on-stage. Nora told him to apologize to Marjean, which he reluctantly did, but he followed it up by saying that he didn't like the way Marjean talked down to him. Maybe if he wasn't such an ignorant prick she would treat him with the same amount of respect she treats everyone else with. Our entire department is infuriated by all this. No one messes with Marjean. Once the show is over I have every intention of walking up to this kid and breaking his ugly face.
That's all :-)