An acorn tree dropped it's acorn on me.
Aug. 25th, 2003 08:52 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
janestarzSo there's been a lot of stuff happening in the last few days and this will be a long non-friendsonly post so you all can catch up with what has been happening in my life.
Fridaynight at the job was way harsh. My back just couldn't cope, and I took a taxi home around ten.
Saturday I received a good massage and I played some guitar. *grins*
Sundaymorning I woke up with thesame amount of pain in my back. I tried to lay in bed leisurely for a while but soon my sore aching back drove me to the shower. I just couldn't lie comfortably.
After noon, my mother and Luc arrived, and I introduced them to NoKey, who toppled them with his guitar-abilities and his voice. He played "Africa" to them and my mom melted off the couch and lay in a puddle on the floor while I made them coffee and croissants. Then we preformed "Ode to my family" again, tweestemmig (what's that in English, bivocal?). And ofcourse "Romeo and Juliet".
We ventured to Ede, by car, to have a glimpse at the forest. We drove to the Horalaan and parked there, to have a look at the Estate of Hoekelum. An old mansion, now a hotel, and old beechtrees forest surrounding it. We came across lots of blackberries. Some very sour, others very sweet. NoKey did his elf-thing and gathered a big handfull of blackberries, giving the sweetest to me and my mom, and eating the most sour ones himself (because he seemed to like them). Luc isn't that fond of eating wild berries off some strange bush in some strange forest and frowned a bit, didn't eat any.
We sat down on some bench to give my back a bit of rest, and then returned to the car. I shot some marvellous pictures of fallen trees and mossy treetrunks and mushrooms growing on a tree that was sick and dying, the wound at the side of it's trunk (about two metres above the ground) wet with water and treesap.
When we returned to the car, mom suggested going out for dinner and I took them to the core of Ede to a Greek restaurant I had had dinner with Ramon and TC a year earlier. I had the Giros again, which was as good as I remembered, but my body resisted me and tried to wriggle my organs loose or something. I felt very weird, in any case, and could hardly stand eating. Though I felt better after dinner (having eaten half the meat on my plate), NoKey had felt how I felt, mom and Luc just talked about their trip to Sweden and the glass blowing course they are doing in Leerdam and how wonderful Sweden was.
After tea's we returned home.
Mom offered NoKey a lift back to the Randstad with her, and I waved all of them off. Then I checked at what time my train would take me to school. I was in bed at nine. A bit feverish, feeling lousy, I curled up on my side with a pillow in my back which felt really comfortable.
Unfortunately, I woke up at five and couldn't sleep anymore.
I had finished reading the "Vampire: the Masquerade" clan novel "Assamite" and I decided to start in the next one, "Ravnos". I tried to nap a bit more but couldn't succeed and then read some more, until my alarm went off.
Took a train toMordor Ede, and decided to take a bus. No busses, well, no busses any time soon, so I walked. Hell on my back. Again. But an acorn tree threw acorns at me as I walked underneath, and the air smelled of forest, so that was some kind of fix-me-upper.
Mount Doom School was a big gloomy wrath waiting for me though. I went upstairs to the Redactielokaal, my favourite hangout in between and during dull classes, where the computers have 1024x768 resolution and the chairs are good (where I don't get stinging arms because of RSI, I mean). Only to find the Redactielokaal stripped of all it's honour and the 12 computers that were there. *sob*
Decided to go to the Rondeel instead. Ran into Piet vd Breevaart underway, said "Goodmorning" in my most cheerful schoolvoice (which, if I may add, is not very cheerful at all, but more likely to resemble a demon who didn't have his morning shot of three massacres yet). In any case, Piet was surprised to see me there that early, and walked on.
Found new coffee machines. Which still make darned sucky coffee but a demon who hasn't had her morning shot of three massacres yet has to settle for something, even if it's only a half-hearted virgin bloodsplattering.
Yes this is the regular mood my school gets me in.
Anyway, I checked CATS for my grades, 34 out of 42 points I got last year. I still need to retry three exams (one of which will be today), and hand in my psychology and stuff. Much to my annoyance, the TECH support (hell, why call them that? See my remark about the keyboard earlier this journal) proved it's unworthyness once again.
Ask them what two and two is and hope you'll get an answer other then "Math is hard"
Besides the fact you can't open more than two browser windows anymore (I usually use more than four at a time, even at my unstable system at home), they have tried to restyle the intranet. And failed miserably ofcourse. Try to log in and half-way through the process the process just stops. Clicking the link to the timetables (like I know what class I'm in, oh, but you can prolly find that on the intranet as well. Mind the sarcasm dripping from the monitor please.) freezes as well, and nothing else works.
Good job peeps! Keep up the good work!
Oh, on their allmighty machines, with msn messenger, everything works just fine I'm sure. But they built in so many restrictions in the other computers (read: the ones the students are allowed to use) that nothing at all will work.
*sigh*
Anyway. I do have the schedule for my exams, and it looks like I might be off Tuesday (I doubt I'll have to retake the English exam) and Friday.
So, I'm afraid I won't be going to all of Ladyfest, but I'll try to show my nose there one of the other days. After all, Amsterdam's only an hour by train.
Fridaynight at the job was way harsh. My back just couldn't cope, and I took a taxi home around ten.
Saturday I received a good massage and I played some guitar. *grins*
Sundaymorning I woke up with thesame amount of pain in my back. I tried to lay in bed leisurely for a while but soon my sore aching back drove me to the shower. I just couldn't lie comfortably.
After noon, my mother and Luc arrived, and I introduced them to NoKey, who toppled them with his guitar-abilities and his voice. He played "Africa" to them and my mom melted off the couch and lay in a puddle on the floor while I made them coffee and croissants. Then we preformed "Ode to my family" again, tweestemmig (what's that in English, bivocal?). And ofcourse "Romeo and Juliet".
We ventured to Ede, by car, to have a glimpse at the forest. We drove to the Horalaan and parked there, to have a look at the Estate of Hoekelum. An old mansion, now a hotel, and old beechtrees forest surrounding it. We came across lots of blackberries. Some very sour, others very sweet. NoKey did his elf-thing and gathered a big handfull of blackberries, giving the sweetest to me and my mom, and eating the most sour ones himself (because he seemed to like them). Luc isn't that fond of eating wild berries off some strange bush in some strange forest and frowned a bit, didn't eat any.
We sat down on some bench to give my back a bit of rest, and then returned to the car. I shot some marvellous pictures of fallen trees and mossy treetrunks and mushrooms growing on a tree that was sick and dying, the wound at the side of it's trunk (about two metres above the ground) wet with water and treesap.
When we returned to the car, mom suggested going out for dinner and I took them to the core of Ede to a Greek restaurant I had had dinner with Ramon and TC a year earlier. I had the Giros again, which was as good as I remembered, but my body resisted me and tried to wriggle my organs loose or something. I felt very weird, in any case, and could hardly stand eating. Though I felt better after dinner (having eaten half the meat on my plate), NoKey had felt how I felt, mom and Luc just talked about their trip to Sweden and the glass blowing course they are doing in Leerdam and how wonderful Sweden was.
After tea's we returned home.
Mom offered NoKey a lift back to the Randstad with her, and I waved all of them off. Then I checked at what time my train would take me to school. I was in bed at nine. A bit feverish, feeling lousy, I curled up on my side with a pillow in my back which felt really comfortable.
Unfortunately, I woke up at five and couldn't sleep anymore.
I had finished reading the "Vampire: the Masquerade" clan novel "Assamite" and I decided to start in the next one, "Ravnos". I tried to nap a bit more but couldn't succeed and then read some more, until my alarm went off.
Took a train to
Decided to go to the Rondeel instead. Ran into Piet vd Breevaart underway, said "Goodmorning" in my most cheerful schoolvoice (which, if I may add, is not very cheerful at all, but more likely to resemble a demon who didn't have his morning shot of three massacres yet). In any case, Piet was surprised to see me there that early, and walked on.
Found new coffee machines. Which still make darned sucky coffee but a demon who hasn't had her morning shot of three massacres yet has to settle for something, even if it's only a half-hearted virgin bloodsplattering.
Yes this is the regular mood my school gets me in.
Anyway, I checked CATS for my grades, 34 out of 42 points I got last year. I still need to retry three exams (one of which will be today), and hand in my psychology and stuff. Much to my annoyance, the TECH support (hell, why call them that? See my remark about the keyboard earlier this journal) proved it's unworthyness once again.
Ask them what two and two is and hope you'll get an answer other then "Math is hard"
Besides the fact you can't open more than two browser windows anymore (I usually use more than four at a time, even at my unstable system at home), they have tried to restyle the intranet. And failed miserably ofcourse. Try to log in and half-way through the process the process just stops. Clicking the link to the timetables (like I know what class I'm in, oh, but you can prolly find that on the intranet as well. Mind the sarcasm dripping from the monitor please.) freezes as well, and nothing else works.
Good job peeps! Keep up the good work!
Oh, on their allmighty machines, with msn messenger, everything works just fine I'm sure. But they built in so many restrictions in the other computers (read: the ones the students are allowed to use) that nothing at all will work.
*sigh*
Anyway. I do have the schedule for my exams, and it looks like I might be off Tuesday (I doubt I'll have to retake the English exam) and Friday.
So, I'm afraid I won't be going to all of Ladyfest, but I'll try to show my nose there one of the other days. After all, Amsterdam's only an hour by train.
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Date: 2003-08-25 12:52 am (UTC)I wouldn't even know what to do if I could only open two windows at the same time. I now have six windows open, and it's only the beginning of the day. Just brwosing through my email and stuff. When I really start working I'll have to open at least then windows.
Anyway, I wish you well gor the rest of today, and the rest of this week, and the rest of this schoolyear.
About this Nokey. Is her really as good as you describe him to be? If he is, then make sure you don't let go off him! Kidnap him and chain him to your bed, if needed.
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Date: 2003-08-25 01:01 am (UTC)The worst part of school is that I have to stay here, until 14.45 when I have my exam. That's over 4 hours from now.
Comment Fight!
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Date: 2003-08-25 01:07 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-08-25 01:21 am (UTC)I can't even install MSN or Trillian here.
But we can e-mail! And comment!
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Date: 2003-08-25 05:39 am (UTC)Also, if you don't mind me asking, what is the cause of your back pain?
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Date: 2003-08-25 06:21 am (UTC)As Malor pointed out: you either love him, or hate him. And that's just one of the countless vampires that appears in the books.
Go read them. That's all I can say.
The cause of my back pain? I don't really know. My mom thinks it is the muscle, which means it's not a hernia (which I was afraid of, even though I am far too young to have one) but the pain doesn't go away, yet. I try to seek out the best chairs school has to offer, but I fear they are lousy.
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Date: 2003-08-25 06:50 am (UTC)Do you mind if I make a suggestion? I have a slightly deformed spine (nothing major or noticeable, but it curves more than it's supposed to and it also takes on a slight "S" shape) and as a result, I have a more pronounced arch in my back than is considered "normal". This also tends to be a similar strain as for people who have back pain as a result of standing too long or poor posture. What I find helps though, is to stretch it out in the morning and again at night (it hurts a little bit at first if you're sore to begin with, but then you get used to it and it loosens it up nicely). The best way to do this - I'm assuming it's lower back pain - is to kneel on the floor and sit on your heels. Bend forward as far as you can go, stretching your arms as far above your head as you can. Breathe deeply and hold the position for a while. Try and stretch a little bit further and again, breathe deeply and hold the position.
Also, as a bit of a preventative measure, as strange as it sounds...try sit-ups. As you strengthen your stomach muscles, they'll help to hold your spine in a better alignment and you'll be less prone to over-arching your back.
If I'm completely off the mark here then just ignore that, but it just sounded all too familiar.
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Date: 2003-08-25 01:03 pm (UTC)I used to have some fysiotherapy for my back, when I was doing cash register job at a supermarket.
And right now I'm about ready to cling to straws.
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Date: 2003-08-25 01:30 pm (UTC)(I'm more awake now, so I can string together a sentence a bit better)
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Date: 2003-08-25 08:06 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-08-25 01:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-08-25 10:40 am (UTC)Who's Sauron, then?
School networks are a joke. It's a pretty universal thing.
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Date: 2003-08-25 01:08 pm (UTC)I added you as a friend.
Prepare to be erradicated.
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Date: 2003-08-25 09:42 pm (UTC)*snuggles* ^.^
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Date: 2003-08-26 12:53 pm (UTC)*cackles evilly*
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Date: 2003-08-26 12:40 pm (UTC)morgen is dragking workshop on 12uur en dan om 3 uur radical cheerleading workshop, starring Carolien :)
anyway. check out www.ladyfestamsterdam.org if you're realy interested in the whole qaaazjaaa-bizznizz
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Date: 2003-08-26 12:55 pm (UTC)Don't we just love it?
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Date: 2003-08-26 12:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-08-26 01:16 pm (UTC)Hangt van treinen en examen af. 100 vragen mc kan nog steeds zwaar lang duren. En als ik moet overstappen....
Ik weet als het goed is de Vrankrijk nog wel te vinden. Achter de dam, achter de nieuwezijdsvoorburgwal, right?
en anders ga ik gewoon richting Louis wittenburg om daar even over wat larpspullen heen te kwijlen en naar diabolo om het daar ook te doen over gothic kledij en naar het waterloo om ketels te kopen.
Me dork.
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Date: 2003-08-26 01:18 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-08-26 01:19 pm (UTC)maar dan ben ik daar misschien al weg???
i dunno. anders zijn er andere mensen die je kunnen uitleggen hoe bij het Afrikakraakpant te komen...?
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Date: 2003-08-27 12:19 am (UTC)Is dat waar het radical cheerleaden gehouden wordt?
Ik kom in ieder geval zsm. Eerst om 11.40 naar doc.