I started my little art project this morning at 8 am, before Saved by the Bell was over. I know, right?!?
Let me give you the details of Spray Painting for Jesus. As noted in the previous entry, I was put in charge of painting a large roll of carpenter’s paper to look like adobe houses and cacti. I decided the best way to do this was to roll out the paper into long sections, spray paint each section one of the bright pastel colors my mother selected (because real adobe houses are pink and powder blue), and then cut the sections into smaller pieces. These small pieces then get painted with cartoon looking doors, windows, and potted plants.
I got three different sections spray painted. I rolled out sections of the paper that were about twenty feet long and sprayed one salmon, one cream, and one yellow. By the time I was done with these three colors, my hand felt like it was permanently frozen into the shape of some sort of odd claw, deformed from forty five minutes of pushing down the small knob on the various bottles of spray paint. It is, in fact, still numb and I’m having a difficult time typing.
I have what some refer to as a “Bible Bump” on my right hand. This developed during finals at Duquesne in April 2002 when I was taking Southern Lit and Initiation & Alienation and was writing two fifteen page papers. This is a small, hard bump in the middle of my hand. Usually it doesn’t hurt or bother me but at one point, it hurt so terribly that I couldn’t hold anything, but the pain magically went away the morning I was supposed to go to the doctor, so I skipped the appointment.
It’s called a “Bible Bump” because supposedly if you smack it really hard with a big book, it will go away.
I’ll live with the bump.
My Bible Bump doesn’t hurt, but sometimes my hand cramps after writing for a long time or typing for a long time. Apparently, it also contributes to my hand going numb after Spray Painting for Jesus.
My hand is so numb right now around the area of my Bible Bump and now it’s radiating up my wrist.
Damn Bible Bump ruined Spray Painting for Jesus.
24/04/2006 at 9:59 am Permalink
I forget the real name of the “Bible Bump,” but my doctor explained that it would involve a surgery that was painful and might not work. He then said “Now, I’ve got to get some paperwork.”
He walked out of the office, I turned my arm off, smacked the wrist (mine was more on the wrist) on the door frame, and by the time he walked back in, it was gone.
His comment? “I couldn’t tell you to do that, but I knew you were smart enough to figure it out!” By the time I turned my arm back on, it didn’t hurt nearly as much as you’d think.
24/04/2006 at 10:09 am Permalink
Mine’s pretty close to my wrist. It’s about an inch away from my wrist. I don’t know if I want it to go away. It gives my right hand it’s own character. And when people notice it for the first time, it kind of freaks them out.