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When the subject of some spam tells me that "She will love [me] more than any other guy", do they mean that she will love me more than she loves any other guy, or that she will love me more than any other guy will love me? It's a tantalizing ambiguity.

I had a chiro appointment yesterday. Like I did after the one other chiro appointment I ever had, an aborted attempt at going regularly about two years ago, my back pain now feels roughly like it did 6 months ago. In this case, that's not necessarily a good thing in the short term. But if that can happen after every appointment, then I only need 15 or 16 more to be healed! I'm going again tomorrow.

To those of you who posted that self-affirmation quasi-meme the other day: I haven't forgotten to comment. It's just a matter of me trying to think of something to say that's not too gushy.

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Finally, unfortunately, Philadelphia was overrun by junikies yesterday, nearly triggering an all-out war. Apparently this was hardly the worst thing to happen yesterday. Quite unfortunate.

Happy Thursday!

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Out of curiosity, have you ever had your back x-rayed. I had mine x-rayed by chance during some GI troubles I had a few years ago and that revealed an old compression fracture. That means my back gets irritated anytime something even vaguely in my abdominal area goes wrong and that I cannot do exercises that involve twisting motions. Something about that just seems to make my back spasm. This experience makes me wonder if you might have an old injury that you werem't aware of that leaves you vulnerable to back problems. Knowing about that might help you manage things.

I have an old injury that I am aware of. I hurt my back when moving into college in 1999, and it really didn't feel like a huge deal at the time, but the problem never got better. I had an x-ray done a couple years later, but nothing was abnormal aside from a "slight" case of scoliosis.

I had another x-ray and an MRI done a few months ago. Neither of them have been read yet, since I'm lazy. But the chiro asked to see the x-ray, so he'll let me know what he thinks tomorrow.