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  • As an aside

    It’s only six months until I turn 30.

  • Health stuff

    Monday, almost two weeks ago, I wasn’t feeling very well. I assumed it was the beginning of the flu, and went home. I stayed home on Tuesday and Wednesday, and went back to work on Thursday as the flu hadn’t broken out.

    Cue: Extreme dizziness and nausea at work when I was standing up or sitting. (It’s really not that fun to wonder if you’re going to make it to the bathroom at work without fainting, I’ve come to realize.)

    I went home to Mummy (because I didn’t want to go home and be alone when I was feeling dizzy) and got properly taken care of for the weekend. By the following Monday I was better, but still dizzy and nauseated when walking or sitting.

    With an office job, it is especially the latter part that is slightly impossible to live with.

    A trip to the doctor’s on that Monday, and it seems like I had a case of Benign positional vertigo. One factor, my doctor thought, that was making it worse for me is that I’m a lightweight in terms of how much I can take before I get motion sickness normally, and so standing up or sitting have resulted in motion sickness.

    For the past week now, I have been in a horizontal position as much as possible and it seems to have improved further and I’ll be back at work on Monday. And I can’t wait to start working out again.

    Fortunately I have been fine when horizontal, and I’m currently on season 8 of Frasier (started at season 1) and working my way to the end.

    It’s very odd how suddenly the body changes a function.

  • Making the bed

    In a fit of good intentions and cleanliness, I joined Flylady last year. I stopped before the famed sink cleaning, but I still get some of the emails that come through the filter I set up. From time to time they inspire me to make my bed.

    I won’t deny that there is a special pleasure in returning to recently-fluffed pillows.

  • Bachelor housing

    How do you know you’re visiting a bachelor’s dwelling and not just a minimalistic one?

    The minimalistic decorated living spaces tend to look a bit more coherent. Also, the one flower pot does look like it’s mean to be there and not put randomly down on a massive speaker because he was expecting guests.

    Question to said bachelor: How long have you lived here?
    Answer: Four-five years, maybe?

    I would have thought he had moved in a month ago.

  • Clean desk

    I cleaned my desk before heading off for the Christmas vacation. Now – four work days later, it is almost as messy as it was when I abandoned it.

    But the feeling of coming back to a clean desk made it all worth it.

  • 2013

    Wonder when I’ll stop thinking “this is the first time I’m doing this in 2013”?

    Probably in 2014.

  • Things

    I’ve been superbusy at work, and in my spare time, since coming home from Paris two weeks ago (really, two weeks ago already?). The puzzling thing at this point is that last week I was sort of complaining about having too much planned – and how my free Saturday was heaven… because the subsequent week would be totally filled as the current one had been, and summing it up today… my free Saturday ended up being filled, but I didn’t go to my “maybe” activity on Monday because of it. *

    And then:
    The quiz I was supposed to go to yesterday with some friends – our attendance got cancelled due to the friends being busy at work.*
    The quiz I was supposed to attend today, I’m not going because I went by plane to Bergen today for work, and when I returned, I did not have the energy beyond driving home and going to bed. It’s 7PM, and I am seriously considering just going to sleep.

    My saving grace from feeling very anti-social at this point is that I have my activities tomorrow and Friday all lined up, still.

    And next week looks to be crowded with work activities, even after work. Including another trip to Bergen.

    How you’ve been?
    *) Though, I did go to the gym instead on both these days, so it’s not like I sat at home on my couch.

  • Did I pick this up?

    While cleaning my grandmother’s flat for the weekend guests – my mother found a book I’d loaned her last summer. As a book mark in the book, my grandmother had used a “package to pick-up” notice from the post office. My box of books from Amazon.

    My grandmother was in the final stages of being able to live at home, with her dementia, last summer (my grandmother, her dementia, me and the Chinese guy in the basement – sounds like the beginning of a joke.) she would bring the post in, and put them “smart places” so she’d remember where she’d put them…

    I have a year old notice that says she might not have remembered to give it to me.

    The question now is: Did the post office send another notice that I actually got – or did they just return them to Amazon once I failed to pick them up?

  • Trying to break a habit

    So, the Olympics are over. And since I’ve been checking the online newspapers pretty obsessively both because of that, and, it’s been a slow summer, I figured it was time to break my habit.
    Not write the newspaper-adresses into the browser when I’m bored. Not check every five minutes (really, it doesn’t change much). Not have it on in the background. Plainly – just try to break a time-consuming habit.

    Already, I feel myself be more effective at work.

    I don’t mind telling you, though, that it’s been surprisingly hard.

    Yesterday alone, there was 20 times (at least!) that I typed the address of a news-source into the address bar. Which is also why, I’m coming to realize that this kind of action is definitely necessary.

    This decision came just in time for the backlash over the report over the July 22 reports. Instead of reading the news reports on the report, I went straight to the source, and read the report itself.

    I figure I’m going to give this a go now for two weeks, and then I’m off for two weeks with very little internet time. By the time I get back to work in September – a new habit should be formed.

    Hopefully.