Small Worlds and Piriformis muscles

I always love days when something interesting happens, especially lately. I actually made it all the way down to Boulder to see a possible new apartment in Southeast Boulder. I used to think commuting between Longmont and Boulder was intolerably slow and inconvenient, before Washington, but I got used to their ideas of commuting, I guess. There commutes of 15 miles are always long, with all the hills, weird curvy streets and lakes that slow down traffic and lengthen actual trip distances. I was commuting a distance that ought to have been just 12 miles for a while, and yet with a ridge in the way the buses took a 21 mile route instead, and took almost 2 hours to do so. But I walk at about 4 miles per hour, so it would still have taken longer just to walk, unfortunately. After all that, taking the Bolt into Boulder is so easy and fast! However, it took just $1.25 to get me to work transferring through two counties in Washington, and $2.25 to take a much longer trip to the other side of the lower end of Lake Washington. Here it takes $3 just to get to Boulder. Very annoying.

Anyway, I liked the place I went to see, and instead of meeting complete strangers, I met up with two ladies I already knew from some of my classes at CU. The only one I didn't already know is the one who is looking for a subtenant for her room. I'm hoping that works out.

Unfortunately between my very lumpy mattress and all the walking I have done all of a sudden this week I seem to have given myself a case of pipiformis syndrome, which feels a whole lot like I tore a small muscle in my butt. I only really notice it if I lean forward while my legs are more or less straight, so the act of sitting hurts, but once I am seated I feel fine. If I am putting weight on that side while moving through that conformation I lose feeling and motor control in the back of that leg, so it is definitely a pinched nerve. So I am rebuilding my mattress yet again, and stretching, and maybe I have learned my lesson about not getting so sedentary again in the future. Maybe. After all, if you have similar aches and pains in a leg or your back, there are ways to treat it with wrappings and massage, but asking someone to massage your butt is just ... Ok, I can see how that might be a great excuse to get a cute guy to become a much more intimate acquaintance, but if you have to have an injury in your butt before a guy is willing to touch your butt, either he's gay, or he's really not interested.