are you Jackie? either way i wish you a speedy recovery.

as far as stories, i am typing this right now while having my left leg bent continuously for 6 hours a day by a 40 lb machine as a result of a bike accident 3 months ago (completely destroyed my knee -- tore three ligaments to various degrees, damaged the meniscus, bruised bones, just got surgery last week).



books:

the Master and Margarita by Bulgakov
The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
Absurdistan & the Russian Debutantes Handbook by Gary Shteyngart
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift
All about Love bell hooks
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Bomb the Suburbs by William Upski Wimsatt

movies:

Snatch
The Maltese Falcon
Sin City
The Believer
The yes men
The Forth World War (if you enjoy documentaries and resistance movements)
American Beer (if you enjoy documentaries and microbrews)
Election
Layer Cake (if you enjoy crime movies)
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
Everything Is Illuminated
The Edukators
Good Bye, Lenin!
Shaun of the Dead

and

The Bicycle Thief