Office chairs are expensive.  We got to pick out new chairs for our new offices, and I guess they’re throwing us a bone by getting us super-nice chairs since we have to be in cubicles.  Still, I wonder if it’s really worth it to have an $800 chair.  I’d rather have $780 tacked onto my computer budget and sit on a beanbag.

On another topic (OR IS IT??), what does everybody think about chiropractors?  My cousin is one, and she (naturally) swears by chiropractic treatments.  I’ve never had one.  I imagine they’re more useful for some situations than others.  My left side is a little weird; my left knee hurts a little when I run on it a lot, and I cansometimes feel pain radiating into my left hip and the left side of my lower back.  I wonder if that’s the sort of thing that would be helped by a chiropractic adjustment.

I follow a very middle-of-the-road approach when it comes to medicine.  I agree with my cousin when she says that a lot of drugs are over-prescribed (and I’ve certainly witnessed doctors prescribing drug after drug after drug to treat the side effects of the other drugs) and that a holistic approach is smart.  Still, I’m glad for all the advances science has made, such as the fact that my generation has never had polio as a concern. Drugs can be dang useful.

So…yeah.  Chiropractics:  helpful, or a bunch of bunk, when viewed in the context of a person whose left knee and hip and back sometimes hurt?