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September 23, 2004
The Body Always Knows
Well, at 3 a.m. this morning, it became rapidly apparent why I was feeling anti-social. I awoke from a deep sleep, slightly disoriented, and rushed to the bathroom. The next three hours are a blur of vomiting and other nasty digestive problems. I eventually went back to sleep, but was still feeling queasy in the morning. At any rate, I decided to skip class (we have less than 2 hours of class on Thursday) in favor of catching up on sleep (the prospect of riding my bike in to campus while vomiting on the sidewalk wasn't too appealing either). Lots of tea later, and I decided that it was a case of food poisoning. My suspicions were later confirmed when Jess noticed that we seemed to have soap residue on one of our pots--it was forming little soap shavings when we boiled water. Soap, as we all know, is a great expectorant--in fact, in my undergraduate "Outdoor Emergency Medicine" we were told to give water and soap to people who had ingested toxins.
There you have it. I am still not feeling myself, but just ate some homemade pizza (yum) and am feeling ok. I decided to skip Pub Night tonight, which is unfortunate, since our class is sponsoring the music tonight and Jess and Ronan are DJ-ing. But I thought it would be better to hang around the house and make sure that everything that I ate stays in my system for an appropriate amount of time.
As such, I don't have much to report, other than my sudden computer problems. You see, we got internet access at our apartment today, and everything seems to be working swimmingly--all except for my Outlook. When I open Outlook, I can see all the messages from my hotmail account, but the program immediately freezes and I have to do a Control-Alt-Delete function to exit. I can manage my hotmail from Internet Explorer just fine--so I'm not sure if it's an Outlook problem, or something related to the firewall in my home connection. Fortunately, there is a computer guy in the next building who hopefully can help me sort this out--I'd hate to be Outlook-free when at home.
Also amusing--I'm currently sitting on a kitchen chair directly inside the front door to the apartment. You see, the internet connection is on the ceiling of the entryway, directly over the front door. My ethernet cable, which extremely long, only runs from the plug to the end of the hallway. I'll need to get one at least twice as long to make it to the desk in my room. So for now, all internet activity will take place in close proximity to the hallway. Once again, we're hoping the computer guy can help--he is rumored to have access to all sorts of goodies.
Class tomorrow focuses on social sustainbility--a topic which I believe is underdeveloped in The Natural Step Framework. I'll spend the rest of my evening reading the chapter on social sustainability in my coursebook so that I can be prepared to constructively probe the lecture's assumptions tomorrow.
As for this weekend, I'm hoping to do a little biking if the weather stays nice. Also perhaps a little shopping, as I'm still in desperate need for a rain-resistant jacket. I've been living high on the hog, as it were, but now that I've just spent nearly $1,000 on a plane ticket home for Christmas, I'll need to be much more frugal with purchases in the future.
