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[Unposted from Sunday]
I'm not a basket case, but i wager i've got a frame of what's going on in my mind that is sucking some energy away. I think i've done OK at not making that worse, give the lousy sinus pressure i've been experiencing all day. Long waves of dullness with occasional glimpses of clarity, things that should take moments taking too long.
I keep wandering into the kitchen and bathroom, to realize that i'm hoping if i just ate something, took some pill, i'd be restored. I keep working on hot lemonade and analgesics, knowing i'd taken an antihistamine last night.
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There's meetings with out of town colleagues planned most of the week, plus two committee evenings and a Friday commitment. I looked at the comments i want to reply to and decided i won't be able to until too much time, for me, has passed. Thank you all, particularly![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
kibbles, bobby1933 , laughingrat and seawasp for your comments.
Which reminds me,kibbles, i said i'd do that MLK reading with you and have been struggling through Letters Across the Divide: Two Friends Explore Racism, Friendship, and Faith. There are ways in which their theology intersects with their discussion which i find frustrating. Sorry i couldn't have helped chat with you before your discussion tomorrow. I'll be thinking of you.
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Yesterday i had a lovely lovely time with my brother's family. Christine joined us for lunch, and then i went with them to a nearby park to give the boys time on a playground. I have always romanticized what being in one of those paddle/peddle boats would be like. Now i know: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za-nBxYtHPg It's not for my leg length, at all.
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[7:50 am] I need to leave for library committee in 50 min.
My head is still congested from i do not know what. I woke feeling hungover, like my sinuses were performing in the last act with the painful wall of sound transferred to a giant pressure in my head.
I think i recall yesterday feeling the pressure developing in my head, but the development overnight was astounding.
I'm not ready for the committee meeting... so i've cancelled it.
Which is quite frustrating. But, damn.
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I will try to address my coming week's responsibilities today with a brief outing to acquire Christine's birthday gift and gas for the car. I am trying to resurrect my mind hack of remembering numbers by associating them with the atomic number of elements. I'm OK through about oxygen because my last physics work was all with very light elements: numbers after 8 are going to take looking them up.
However, once i look them up, i can remember things, like the gas at the corner is Lithium-Phosphorus ($3.15) and on campus was Lithium -- ok, actually i just remembered it was "two more", so Lithium-Chlorine ($3.17). I will be 42, molybdenum, which i cannot pronounce for the life of me. Gee, the Mac's text to speech makes it sound easy.
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The alarm on the iPod did not go off this morning. I'm now 2 for 4 with the device. The old (first or second gen) one "just worked." This third gen one has defied my expectations and the manual does not help. Feh.
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Midday. Gah. I've done a few little things, but really, my mind feels squished by the sinus pressure.
I'm not a basket case, but i wager i've got a frame of what's going on in my mind that is sucking some energy away. I think i've done OK at not making that worse, give the lousy sinus pressure i've been experiencing all day. Long waves of dullness with occasional glimpses of clarity, things that should take moments taking too long.
I keep wandering into the kitchen and bathroom, to realize that i'm hoping if i just ate something, took some pill, i'd be restored. I keep working on hot lemonade and analgesics, knowing i'd taken an antihistamine last night.
***
There's meetings with out of town colleagues planned most of the week, plus two committee evenings and a Friday commitment. I looked at the comments i want to reply to and decided i won't be able to until too much time, for me, has passed. Thank you all, particularly
kibbles, bobby1933 , laughingrat and seawasp for your comments. Which reminds me,
kibbles, i said i'd do that MLK reading with you and have been struggling through Letters Across the Divide: Two Friends Explore Racism, Friendship, and Faith. There are ways in which their theology intersects with their discussion which i find frustrating. Sorry i couldn't have helped chat with you before your discussion tomorrow. I'll be thinking of you.***
Yesterday i had a lovely lovely time with my brother's family. Christine joined us for lunch, and then i went with them to a nearby park to give the boys time on a playground. I have always romanticized what being in one of those paddle/peddle boats would be like. Now i know: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za-nBxYtHPg It's not for my leg length, at all.
***
[7:50 am] I need to leave for library committee in 50 min.
My head is still congested from i do not know what. I woke feeling hungover, like my sinuses were performing in the last act with the painful wall of sound transferred to a giant pressure in my head.
I think i recall yesterday feeling the pressure developing in my head, but the development overnight was astounding.
I'm not ready for the committee meeting... so i've cancelled it.
Which is quite frustrating. But, damn.
***
I will try to address my coming week's responsibilities today with a brief outing to acquire Christine's birthday gift and gas for the car. I am trying to resurrect my mind hack of remembering numbers by associating them with the atomic number of elements. I'm OK through about oxygen because my last physics work was all with very light elements: numbers after 8 are going to take looking them up.
However, once i look them up, i can remember things, like the gas at the corner is Lithium-Phosphorus ($3.15) and on campus was Lithium -- ok, actually i just remembered it was "two more", so Lithium-Chlorine ($3.17). I will be 42, molybdenum, which i cannot pronounce for the life of me. Gee, the Mac's text to speech makes it sound easy.
***
The alarm on the iPod did not go off this morning. I'm now 2 for 4 with the device. The old (first or second gen) one "just worked." This third gen one has defied my expectations and the manual does not help. Feh.
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Midday. Gah. I've done a few little things, but really, my mind feels squished by the sinus pressure.