I'm scared. Teaching is what I love doing, and what I'm good at doing. What if I just can't keep up teaching full time because I'm in too much pain? I could probably be OK with teaching part-time, but I can't earn a living that way.

And, for some reason, I just got hit with a major craving for food from the vegan soul food restaurant in DC. I'm fairly certain that I can't get vegan soul food in central PA unless I cook it myself.

Oh. And WebAssign still isn't working.

Hil, is it just the standing that does it, or the walking from class to class? Could you sit? (forgive me if I'm asking stupid questions)

And dealing with the pain is making me a lot less able to deal with other stuff. Not just things like cooking that I can't do because, by the time I'm done teaching for the day, I can't stand up for that long, but it's also just kind of sapped my "deal with stuff" mental energy. Little things feel like too much.

Pain steals a lot of spoons, sometimes all of them. I wish I could FedEx you a whole silver set. I hope you can make it okay until your appointment.

Hil, is it just the standing that does it, or the walking from class to class? Could you sit? (forgive me if I'm asking stupid questions)

It's all of it. I could try using a walker for walking between classes. I think I could teach while sitting down if I had a good classroom setup with overhead projectors, but the classrooms I'm in this semester are crap.

Hil, you have a disability--the school is responsible for providing you with what you need in order to teach. Have you talked to HR about their lack of AMDA compliance?

And ignore if you aren't looking for solutions--I also just feel so much sympathy for your situation and am wishing you well.

Hil, you have a disability--the school is responsible for providing you with what you need in order to teach. Have you talked to HR about their lack of AMDA compliance?

I didn't request an overhead projector at the beginning of the semester. I had to fight for what I did request, which was that back-to-back classes be in the same building. I got that for every day except Tuesdays, when the schedule gets all weird.

And thanks.

Hil,

Circumstances have changed and you are in a lot more pain. I wonder if they can make accommodations.

Dropping in to say hi.

And someone - Typo? - was posting about Tramadol. I've been on it for a while; no serious side effects. The first month or so it made me really sleepy, so I'd cut the pills in half and the time between in half (OK, maybe not the best idea, but it got me through the getting-used-to-it period). And it made me constipated (it's an artificial opiate and has that effect). All in all, it's good stuff.

And in regard to the Navy Yard shooting - some moron, that evening, decided to stand in front of the White House and set off firecrackers. (The stupid - it not only burns, it explodes.) Needless to say, he was arrested right away ... haven't heard about why he decided that was a good idea ....