I've been trying to avoid airplane travel for a while now. This is just one extra thing. Even more than security theater, I am having trouble dealing with being an already big woman (just my skeleton) who is now obese. While the airlines keep making seats smaller. Add to that my disability and that airlines are now monetizing pre-boarding and it's a pretty awful travel experience. I'm going to the Bay Area again in January and am trying to borrow a car to do it.
Set my alarm for 8 this morning so I could reset my schedule to take in most of the daylight but I went to bed late as usual so I snoozed 'til 10. Fail. Meant to cycle to Trader Joe's and the library a couple hours ago but decided to hang around instead. Mostly because my online addiction has me glued to my keyboard, but also so I could spend some time checking my garden, my seedlings and trying to maximize sunlight time. I can do shopping in the dark.
it's really not good to need to use an inhaler while teaching a class.
Uh, why? I would think open airways and the ability to breathe are 2 essentials for a successful class.
Uh, why? I would think open airways and the ability to breathe are 2 essentials for a successful class.
Yeah, but actually using the inhaler kind of interrupts the flow of the class. (I managed OK -- I could kind of tell that an attack was coming on, so I did just a short lecture and then spent the rest of the class time having the students solve problems and explain their solutions at the board. Started coughing and gasping while a student was explaining one, so I kind of stepped over to the side of the room to use the inhaler.)
Barb - does it ever help to go for a walk and listen to something (like a book on tape that is not at all reminiscent of your work, or she who shall not be named) to distract the brain?
Not really. The thing that's tended to help the most is yoga, but even that's been off the table for a few weeks, since I had to carry the 80lb dog down the stairs and lift him up into my car to take him to the vet. I did heinous things to my back and shoulder.
I'm just, I dunno... kind of twitchy and anxious. More sleep would probably help.
sleep is good. i hear wine can help with that for some people ;P
I am totally opposed to the scanners for a whole lot of reasons, but I don't really care if they photo me (or grope me, both have happened before). I wasn't about to let them photograph Mal, however.
Now that they're saying kids under 12 don't get a pat-down, my plans for YouTube greatness when Mal went Tasmanian Devil on the TSO are kaput.
I actually had a fight about these scanners today at work, with my newest Problem Child. Not only is he convinced he's the smartest person in the room, he won't shut up about it. And he's not. Pretty far from, in fact (he informed us all yesterday that if we knew our history, we'd realize that Pompeii was destroyed in a volcanic eruption).
Following our "agree to disagree" about the utility of backscatter scanners and TSA in general, he IMed me...at which point I discovered that he's set his customization so that all his chats come thru in Papyrus font.
No jury of my peers in the world...
why would you need a jury? You were at my house all week.
The Inquirer published a pretty horrific article today about a Doctor who has written a memoir of being overweight, and how the medical profession treated him. I remember discussions here about doctors running the gamut from insensitive to downright evil on the topic of weight - this article bears that out. If people want to see it, I'll post the link.
I think the answer to that question is always yes.
(he informed us all yesterday that if we knew our history, we'd realize that Pompeii was destroyed in a volcanic eruption)
Dude. Really? A volcano?
Yeah, a jury of your peers would canonize you, not convict you.
What did he think you thought about Pompeii?
