7 posts tagged “sick”
today was a good day. I got a lot of things done - boxes mailed to neechan and to a fellow Raveler, money on my phone, a time for Gizmo to go to the vet to get fixed, took my jeans to be altered. I even dropped by Knitting Tree for an hour or so to tell them about the Myeongdong meeting and do a repeat or so on my cowl. It was fun to be there again - I told them I would come back Friday and bring some of my FOs to show them, since last time I was working on the legwarmers.
After all my errands, I ended up in McDonalds to meet my new friend. We had a lot of fun talking for an hour or so before he had to go do homework for a marketing class. He lives in Kukdong, which is like, right next door to me. When I walked back by KKW the lights were still on, so I ended up going back to McDonald's with Kim-teacher, Kyung Mi (Violet) and Soh Jin (pansy). We stayed there talking about all kinds of things till 10. And now I'm home, browsing ravelry and attempting to figure out what pattern I want to make with this cotton/rayon blend from Knitting Tree.
Also today - yummy kimbap. MMM...
I'd like to finish this cowl this week so I can be wearing it. Also, wanna start my dragon shawl but am still working out if it should be double-stranded or single. Need two more balls to make it double.
And then Jon sent me this article.
Excommunicated doctor hailed for abortion
Archbishop Don Jose Cardoso Sobrinho of Recife excommunicated the doctor, the child's mother and the medical team involved in the procedure.
However, the stepfather was not excommunicated, with Sobrinho telling Globo TV that, "A graver act than (rape) is abortion, to eliminate an innocent life."
Um, no, I don't think so. Because rape isn't the elimination of anything innocent at all. This is just wrong on so many levels. First one - 9 y/o raped by stepfather, pregnant with twins. Abuse had been going on since she was 6. (Can 9y/os GET PREGNANT?) Hello, where was the mother in all this?
2ndly - the girl's mother and the entire medical team who performed the abortion have been excommunicated. Guy who did the raping? Totally cool in the eyes of God. And the Archbishop has the nerve to say that "God's law is above human laws." Of course it is, but I think you are getting confused here, because the law that says it's okay to rape your stepdaughter is probably not God's law. My two cents, anyway.
Brazil bans abortion? What?
This is not it.
I would take the pics and stuff that I wanted to post, and it was going to be cute and such, but right now I am too sick to do anything more than sit comforter-wrapped in my chair with my humidifier turned all the way up and wish my fucking heater worked while I type this. I'm thinking about knitting, but my head is killing me and I keep coughing, and I'm so thirsty. The meds the doc gave me made my throat go away, but I'm still not completely better. I tried listening to music, but that makes my head hurt more, so I think I don't need to stare at my computer for too long either.
Today was a normal day, sortof.. I didn't get to go for waffles with Tulip-teacher cause she had to go to her mother's, but I came home and took a nap. Classes were normal - I brought some stuff home with me to work on my planning of my time unit. My afternoon class was observed for a few minutes by Debbie and wong jam nim, and of course Clara wasn't paying attention and the others were nervous because they were being watched. They did much better when no one else was there, and I loosened up, cause I didn't feel awkward about playing with them or letting them get off topic. I try to discourage it, but as long as they are speaking English, I don't really care too much.
Which leads me to the point of my post. I like having long hair but it tends to get in my way, so I usually put it up in my clip. The way I do it, it usually fans out a little the the side. Today for some reason a few skeins decided to stand straight up, but I didn't really bother about it. Until I was in English Land, and Jennifer was asking me about my hair, something to the effect of commenting that it wasn't blonde on top anymore. So in the midst of this discussion about hair, James pipes up,
"Siobhain-teacher hair, 12 o'clock!"
I was a bit confused for a second, and then I realized what he was saying. I'd been teaching them time, and while James is not the smartest kid I have, he likes to use English in creative ways and make connections if it will help him express himself. In another instance of this, I was teaching them 'hay house' for the performance of The Three Little Pigs, and since I had recently taught them "Hey!" as a greeting, James immediately started waving and saying, "Hey house!" Then I had to explain that the two weren't the same, but I was still impressed by that. And his comment today made me laugh, even though my voice was still a bit shot.
And lastly, though I have been a bit lax with these lately, Korean word of the day!
Today's word is
sudu = chicken pox
Lately a lot of kids have been absent because of chicken pox, so when I asked the other children, "Where is everybody?" they explained to me that the other kids have sudu. Debbie had explained to Douglas and I about it earlier, but it was still interesting to learn the word, and to teach them the English, which they thought was funny.
Oddly, chicken pox is treated very differently here than in the West. Debbie was worried about Douglas and I, and told us, "Be careful if you haven't gotten the chicken pox shot."
"Shot? What shot?" Apparently here people get vaccinated against chicken pox, so she was worried about us catchin it. We explained to her that at home, doctors encourage children to get chicken pox when they are younger since it's dangerous when you are an adult. She seemed very surprised by this, and especially by Douglas' description of 'chicken pox parties' (which might be a British thing, but I was by myself when I got it) where parents invite other parents to bring their children so that they all get the disease at the same time. Another interesting tidbit of Korean life.
I think I'm going back to bed now. I'm hungry, but too tired to eat.
With the exception of my allergies appearing again (THANKS FOR SMOKING, MOM!!), today was a pretty good day.
Work was easy, did my new project with the 5 year old classes, and I think they had fun. It was a lot easier with Pansy class, since they are smaller and Pansy-teacher was there to help me. Tulip class knew more than I expected them to, and since I have two story classes with them a week I think I will use those to work with them on this clock thing - god knows it's more interesting than those ridiculous story books.
I finally got XP back on my computer, with nicely new formatted pieces. Of course, there are still things I have to do to get it back up to snuff and running like I want it, but I feel better knowing that it's on the way. I'll get the kinks worked out eventually, and hopefully when I do I will have a much better performing computer. At the very least, I would like to clean up my hard drive a lil bit - I have so much stuff that I know I don't need all of it.
And I have internet!! I'm still working on figuring out my video card, but having ethernet back is a major step.
Also cool, but unrelated - I finished the gauntlet last night!! It looks a lot better than the other one, but I still have to block, hem, and sew it. Then I can put the ties on and see how it comes out.
After work today, I went to the clinic again, with pretty much the same symptoms as last time - coughing like the dickens, sore throat, losing my voice. Once again, I have laryngitis, and my chronic rhinitis is not helping any. I told the doc that I wake up with some sort of respiratory ailment every few days at least. He said it's not something that can be fixed, so I just have to control the symptoms. Might need some more claritin, I think. He recommended a humidifier to help when I'm sleeping, and drinking lots of water, and gave me some pills. I was looking at those a couple days ago in homeplus - humidifiers are really popular here because most of the heating units make the air really dry. I don't use mine - the floor heating is usually enough, but I figured anything to help with my breathing.
So I got my scrips, and went to Jamsil. I could have gone to Garak, it's closer, but I wanted to stop by the Toys 'r' us that just opened, to look around and to get a new DS adapter - my old one doesn't work here, even with the plug adapter. I picked that up for cheap, wandered around to see if there was much interesting there, and then went to Lotte Mart just to see what they had, since I didn't feel like walking down to Homeplus. And they had a nice little humidifier on sale, and ALSO THEY HAD AN OVEN ON CLEARANCE FOR 30ish DOLLARS (because the exchange rate still sucks, you know). I totally grabbed it, cause I've been thinking about getting one for a while. NOW I CAN BAKE MY RED VELVET CAKE AND IT WILL BE YUMMY!!!!
Speaking of food, I'm starving. And I need a shower. And I need to clean up my room. But neechan, now we can play again!!
As some of you may know, I'm a bit of an anorexic. Or at least, that's the technical term for it - it's easier to say that I just don't eat sometimes. So at the moment I am nibbling my way slowly through a piece of bread, having not eaten much all day. And I'm not sure if it's that, or the cake batter I had at Aruna's tonight, or what, but for some reason I have the quietly nagging feeling that it's going to come up again.
Hence, why I didn't want to eat when I started feeling sick. I hate throwing up - I do it ridiculously infrequently. When I've got food poisoning, usually, but there have been other times. At any rate, I'm trying to not make tonight one of those infrequent times. So far, so good, but we'll see how it goes.
I'm going to wash out my henna now.
yay!! well, not alot. but enough. i slept most of the day yesterday, partially due to not sleeping the night before and partially because I had an awful headache. i thought it was from lack of sleep, but later realized it's more related to dehydration and allergies
still, despite too much sleeping, i got most of the things on my to-do list done. laundry, dishes, etc. and then today i went to the library and managed to get two cover letters written and sent to MIT before they kicked me out at 6. i'm going to keep looking, but if i don't find something by next week, i might just go ahead and call ABF back. I don't really want to be in Jax, but the money and the benefits are good, so it's not too bad.
after all that, i really wanted to get off campus, so Estee and i went up Peachtree to Barnes and Noble. Didn't buy anything, but i did see a book that Nick would probably like - called "wet work" by philip nutman. i looked at it, because there were so many copies on sale, and its apparently some pinnacle of zombie literature.
came back, ate spaghetti, and did some reading. got through the first of the Chronicles of Narnia, which i have been meaning to reread for a while. i thought i was going to fall asleep cause these allergies are making me lethargic, but i managed to read the entirety of The Magician's Nephew.
ack. still have headache and somehow still hungry. i've been eating lots of honey-nut cheerios recently. maybe go read some more. i have a long list of reading things, so I'm not sure what will be done next... guess we'll see once I finish all the Chronicles.
that's sarcasm, in case you couldn't tell. it was fine yesterday - went and applied at a temp agency, took their tests, aced them. no big deal. we went out to dinner with my uncles and co., since they were leaving, at a restaurant on river street. i ordered the tuna, which was okay.
less than an hour later, i'm sick. yay. i went home and went to bed early, but didn't sleep through the night, despite having got only 4 hours the night before. i woke up around 230, ridiculously thirsty, but couldn't get back to sleep, so i finished the book i was reading. I picked it up a week or so ago, since I hadn't read it in a while... It was an interesting read. The literary analyzer in my head was going off like crazy, but it was fun. So much chauvinism and outdated science.
I finally got back to sleep around 530. I was supposed to get up and go to more temp agencies today, but i didn't feel well enough, and cancelled the appointment i made for this afternoon. I slept till around 4ish, when I got a call from Emory, about the position I have been waiting on it.
Didn't get the job. I'm angry with myself- I waited for two weeks to hear back from them, turned down two other jobs that really wanted me because of it; I thought the interview had gone well. Guess I was wrong. So now my grandmother is nagging at me again. Fun times. I pretty much told her to leave me alone, but it took a couple times for her to take the hint and actually do it. Although, she suggested I go up to Atlanta. Which is odd, because she keeps asking me why i dont work here for gulfstream, which makes airplanes. She also volunteered the information that she could take the phone book and find me a job quicker than I could. To which I replied, for the god-knows-how-many-nth time that I don't want her help.
Ah well here I am at the kitchen table in my PJs drinking lovely ginger peach tea (thank you neechan), and I noticed tonight why the can of instant cappuccino on the microwave stand always looks familiar - it's from walmart. or at least, it's walmart's great value brand. interesting.
So, I haven't quite finished my journal, but I'm working on it - did everything but my matsuri post, and I'm going to zip it up and mail it to Henry Smith. For the moment I am checking my mail and posting this while soothing my throat with the aforementioned wondrous tea; I'm losing my voice, and have a weird cough, so maybe it's a good thing that I didn't go to karaoke when Ken invited me earlier... I was fine the other day - I think it's cause the weather has been changing so much here. Yesterday was very warm, but today it was rainy all day. Gotta love Kyoto weather. I've certainly been doing fluids tho - a huge bottle of coke and tons of tea at dinner and now at home.
Yesterday I re-discovered the magic of the Pirates soundtracks, especially the third one, from At World's End. God I love Hans Zimmer... there are these violin pieces that just make me melt - I want to sing to them, or dance, or something, but I can't so I just have to listen to them, and it feels so strange. Tonight while I was wading through the masses of bad Japanese pop on my computer, Nick was looking at my iTunes and saw the word 'bhangra' but didn't know what it was, so of course I considered it my duty to educate him by introducing him to the wonderful world of bhangra. And then it was stuck in my head, so I was listening to it all the way up until dinnertime. I forgot how much fun it is.
As I was coming home on the train tonight, I saw something that made me angry... Well, I wasn't really on the train. I was at Tambabashi, waiting on the train to Okubo, and when I came down the stairs I saw there was this old man on the floor - he was on his knees, and hunched forward. There were a lot of people standing around, but they all seemed to be ignoring him; I saw a group of girls just move away, even though they were talking about him; they kept glancing back over at him. I was in the middle of a text message, and I wasn't exactly sure what was going on, so I watched him for a while. He seemed fine, for the most part - just drunk. They announced that the train was coming, and I couldn't stand it anymore; everyone kept glancing at him, but no one was asking him if he was okay, or anything. It made me a bit angry, even though this is not the first time I have seen something like this happen. So, I went over to him, and tapped him on the shoulder, and asked if he was okay, and told him that the train was coming. At the same time, another guy came over and asked to him the same thing. I offered to help him up, but he said he didn't need it - just as two more people, a 40ish lady and a young guy, walked up, ostensibly to help. That was nice of them, but that wasn't what ticked me off - it was that they had been on the platform the entire time and had done nothing until I walked over to the old man. I mean, I know Japan is a society where you don't make waves, and there are a lot of drunk old men wandering around in train stations, but come on - it was just disgusting.
that's the third time I have seen someone who obviously needed assistance, and been the only one to do something about it. maybe it's the southern part of me, or maybe what i consider common human decency just isn't all that common. the other two times weren't quite the same - one was a woman who fell down on the train when it jerked suddenly, and I helped her up while everyone else stared. the other was also in Tambabashi one morning - everyone was rushing to get through the gates, and I noticed that this one woman was just standing there, hunched over and looking like she was in pain with her arms across her stomach. Everyone kept going, jostling to squeeze around her without a second glance. But I stopped and asked her if she was okay, and she just nodded and went toward the Sizuya. Is this normal? I want to talk to my kaasan about it.
Well, my computer is telling me I need to charge it, so I'm going to take my other cup of tea upstairs and write my matsuri post so I can get this journal done with...
