So, here I am, feeling a mentally better today if not physically better. I informed the principal that I was going on disability in September because there was no way, I could come back with this pain problem. (On a sidenote, the rheumatolgists has me on a new med that MAY cause stomach bleeding. Hmm.)… Continue reading Boy, you work fast…
Hello, guess what? I don’t have really bad carpal tunnel. It’s only mild. That’s the good news. Instead, I’m battling the forces of evil fibromyalgia and Dragon Speaking Software and doctors who know diddly squat about my pain. Oh, more good news, I can withstand more pain (physically and mentally) than I ever thought I… Continue reading I’m baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack….
Today is the first day that I have been without pain from my carpal tunnel, my repetitive stress injury and my TMJ which for the last month has almost incapacitated me making it hard to type at all, nearly impossible to write and otherwise function normally. I have gone two days without the month of… Continue reading Home Sick
Greetings from my apartment where I am because I am in too much pain to go to school. About to get off the computer to do some carpal tunnel physical therapy, call a chiropractor, a hand doctor and anyone else who might be able to offer some help with my ailments. My jaw dysfunction (which… Continue reading Stress Level High
As an almost Jew, one of the ways I find that I am lacking enormous amounts of information is when I run into the most traditional, Orthodox, well-versed, whatever you want to call it, Jews. These are the Jews who are superbly observant and do not think twice. They can summon together an eloquent dvar… Continue reading Reverse Anti-Semitism?
It hurts to walk. Last night, I didn’t make it walking back all the way home. I made it up to 90th and Broadway before I had to give in and try to snag a cab. The cab took me to 123rd Street and charged me $10. Then another cab charged me $10 more dollars… Continue reading Low Energy, Nightmares, Etc.
Where do I start? I guess from the beginning. I crawled out of bed to find out that even though school started two hours later, I only had “an hour grace period” to be at work. Good thing I left home at 9:19 and I had to be at work before 10:19 to make the… Continue reading Day 2 of the Strike
I am the happiest I’ve ever been in my whole entire life. How did this happen? I didn’t realize that people could be this happy. I am so glad I survived. I am so glad I made it this far, really, so now what can I do to spread all this happiness to all my… Continue reading Note to G-d
Grad School: Two papers due and I have one page written for the one that I just realized isn’t even REALLY due until the 16th. The other is an interdisciplinary unit–ouch!–which my brain just can’t seem to wrap its head around. I figure I’ll work on that one after finishing the 10-page paper on “how… Continue reading Girls just want to have fun
Do I HAVE to go? It’s 8:19am. I can’t believe that I have to teach in an hour. What a glorious four-day vacation it was, sigh.
Memoirs of a Jewminicana 