This blog as been a pretty barren landscape of late – rest assured, I’m still around, just somewhat sidelined lately. Since a nasty slip on the snow right after Christmas that resulted in a nastier *SNAP! CRACKLE! POP! in my left knee, I’ve been hobbling around. An MRI on Monday revealed tears to both the lateral and medial menisci as well as the aggravation of an old injury to the ACL – more hobbling ensues as I try to evade surgery through some physical therapy. Time will tell on that front.
The general slowdown in my locomotion has been accompanied by an upsizing in my workload as I took on a new role at my university at the beginning of this month – it’s a positive change, a change that will empower me to make some necessary changes in my life, but one that is sapping what little energy I have left when everything I do seems to take toll on my energy stores.
The unfortunate result of all of this has been that I’ve been largely absent from Armitageworld of late. I sincerely hope that will change soon…perhaps once I can find equilibrium with my current challenges. I’ve also been reflecting a bit that in addition to my challenges, perhaps I’m in a bit of an Armitage funk as well. I’ve been pondering whether maybe part of my Armitageworld mojo has been fueled by a certain level of Alpha Armitage in the chaRActer oeuvre that has been dormant recently. Apparently, I like my fantasy characters to be asskickers, albeit asskickers with a sensitive side (I’m lookin’ at you John Porter). I’m holding out hope that Raymond de Merville may be an asskicker in chainmail who’ll jump start the engine.
In any case, until I’m back in the kicking game, I’ll leave you all with a link to an excellent gif of Daniel Miller kicking – third .gif on the right. (oddly, he didn’t flip the “asskicker” switch for me in S1 of Berlin Station – here’s to hopes for S2)
Ancient Armitage 