Published on Tuesday October 16, 2001 .
Pardon the silence, but last night, when I had intended to be doing my 188 homework, I suddenly got mysteriously sick, and huddled under my covers alternately shivering and sweating. And I stayed there, with a wicked headache and drinking water and too cold and too hot and feverish, for the better part of 18 hours.
And so not only did I not work on my 188 homework, but I missed my first folklore lecture all semester. Let alone was I feeling up to updating the sites.
I feel like I just lost a day. I effectively did. Though I've been up since 2 today, I've just been sitting in bed in a daze.
But tonight, despite a still lingering headache and fever, I've got to do the 188 homework.
The upshot of all this is that I just found out that the 188 midterm got pushed back from this Friday to next Wednesday. Woohoo!
So uh, more later, when I'm not busy and delirious.
Published on Friday September 21, 2001 .
I've now been without my PowerBook for three weeks. And I've causally linked my lack of a laptop to the fact that my wrists have been killing me for the last week. It seems backwards that my laptop is what keeps me from having wrist issues, but that would appear to be the case. Without my laptop, I've been using my desktop computer something like 98% more than I did when I had my laptop, and apparently I don't type properly at my desk.
Or, I was just more mobile, and adjusted my position more often with my laptop. But with my desktop, I'm forced to use it the way it's set up, and I can't very easilly type while lying on my back with my wrists vertical (for example). Of course, this combined with the rigid ergonomic situation at work is probably what's aggravating the situation. So now it's not just a recovery of my computing mobility that's got me aching to have my laptop back. Speaking of which...