"War in Heaven's brought me to the ground..."

[drcuriosity]

Haven't been in to the lab recently - I've been having a rather bad time of things lately, and have quite a lot of pulled muscles and general fatigue that's making it night impossible to get any decent work done. Medication, dietary supplements and trying to eat well are helping to fix me bit by bit, but it's slow going.

As a result of the health issues I've been having, I'm not going to be finishing my thesis by June 30th. On the plus side, my Human Ethics Committee approval came through with no hitches, and I'll have plenty of time to recruit enough people for my interaction study. On the negative side, I need to pay the university another $3000 or so to finish my degree. I'm still owed several hundred dollars by my last flatmate (who doesn't seem to be updating his journal or answering his email anymore, and also has a backlog of mail I need to forward to him), so this counts as rather financially stressy indeed - especially considering the month and a half that I was completely without income due to not being aggressive enough in beating bureaucracies around the head when they didn't reply to my emails about student allowances.

I went out to do grocery shopping the other day, but needed to go to bed when I got home because I was too tired to do anything else. I don't like being in a situation where I have to budget my spoons. Spending much more time at home than I'd like to. Trying not to go stir crazy. Glad I'm not living alone, or I'd be spending a lot of time not bothering to get out of bed, let alone talk with people.

[edit for clarity: I don't have lupus - it's just that the spoon thing is a useful metaphor to use when I'm feeling this fatigued.]

I cleaned my large pot yesterday, and cooked 5 litres of soup in it today. So now I have a bunch of small meals that just require a little ladelling and microwave time to prepare. Feel free to share, if you're in the area (not vegetarian, sorry - I put some chicken stock in).

Comments

[rapha.livejournal.com]

I'm still owed several hundred dollars by my last flatmate and also has a backlog of mail I need to forward to him

Okay you aren't forwarding the mail till you get the money. Cuz what you wrote seems to read like you might. Of course I realize you need to know WHERE he went in order to forward themail, so maybe you didn't mean that, but.. one can never be too sure.

(2) So you have Lupis? or you have something that requires you to count spoons;

(3) do you realize you're kinda inspirational?

[drcuriosity]

He's certainly not getting the mail unless he at least gets in contact with me and we talk about a bunch of stuff that needs to be talked about.

I don't have lupus - it was just a convenient metaphor. I'm currently suffering from quite nasty muscular fatigue, though - and that's putting a bit more strain on the rest of my already-strained system. I think there's a touch of something 'flu-like going around, too.

Kinda inspirational in what manner? I know I probably could be and have been in the past, but I'd still like to hear your take on it.

[cheesecat.livejournal.com]

:-( I was getting over a minor flu thing when I was round at your house on Saturday. Dunno how quickly it could've taken effect in you though. Hop it's not my bad... and I don't think it's Lupus (wtf that is anyway... lycanthropy?) so you should be safe on that front.

[cheesecat.livejournal.com]

O_O that would explain the spoons thing! They're silver O_O .. um. ok, it wouldn't.

[the-legionnaire.livejournal.com]

*hugs* Badness. Take care of yourself, and come around to see us if you're in the area and have some spare time :) The house is warm and good and you can be fed.

[drcuriosity]

Spare energy would be the thing I'd be missing at the moment. Being off work has given me far too much spare time, and not enough opportunity to do anything with it.

The offer's greatly appreciated in any case :-) *hugs*

[shenya.livejournal.com]

The spoon thing is a useful way of explaining things sometimes, I have my own varient that I tend to use.

*hugs*

[somatik.livejournal.com]

Studylink can kiss my fat ass. Those fuckers seem to be nothing but trouble.

[notdoriangray.livejournal.com]

As usual, we still haven't celebrated your birthday. And I'm a total misery-poo as well.

Um... I've got you a present, and the special edition DVD of The Nightmare Before Christmas, and I'm up to travelling by bus if you want to do that sometime. Although I was planning on taking you out for some form of meal-thing.

Bleh.

I can now use html tags. Go me.

[chrissieb.livejournal.com]

I hope you feel better soon....:P
*another sneaky kiss*

[witchcrft.livejournal.com]

The spoon theory is a good theory!