By the time this posts, I should be on my way via planes, trains and automobiles (not to mention the bus to the airport in Edinburgh). It’s hard to believe my fantastic year has drawn to a close. Needless to say, I have no wish to leave Scotland and already have my ticket back. My…
Category: grumbling
Re-Imagining the Olympics
The 2012 Olympics are over. If you weren’t in the UK you might not have been aware of just how transformative these two weeks were. That I’m even talking about it is evidence enough. Like many of my geek and writer friends I’ve often found myself in the position of fighting against the popular attention…
BitchBuzz: I Hate Top 10 Lists
My latest column for BitchBuzz, grumbling about top ten lists: If there’s one thing I hate about the end of the year, it’s the proliferation of Top Ten (and Top 100 and so on) lists. Everywhere you turn, there’s another blowhard detailing what was really best about the last year or decade or even century….
In Case You’re Wondering
This is what a tenure package looks like; this is actually Kim’s (who had loaned me hers as a model) because I only remembered that I was going to take a picture of it after I had turned it in. More or less like mine, though the tabbing is far neater. It contains the letter…
Bootless (but Corseted)
I was all pleased to be without the boot any longer, despite the swelling today (pushed things too much yesterday, I guess — missing the whirlpool at physical therapy, sigh). But my trip to the orthopedist this morning resulted in another appliance, an ASO, which naturally I have already dubbed “the ankle corset” (nice lacing)….
What it Is (Now)
More colorful now — not as swollen, at least in the morning. The picture doesn’t really do justice to the purples and blues, but I think you can get a sense of the omnipresent brownish hue of the whole foot up to the calf. The ankle tends to be more painful in the morning but…
Given the Boot
Yes, I have been booted now, which is a definite improvement over the crutches and Ace bandage. I taught today — up and down to the third floor a couple of times — so my foot was quite swollen by the time I got to the orthopedist. Crutches are painful! It was easier to limp…
A Moment’s Inattention
I received a powerful lesson in mindfulness today. As I was out on my daily walk — my thoughts a thousand miles away — I twisted my ankle as I walked down the hill coming out of the forest by Buckingham Lake and fell down hard. The scrapes and bruises on my knees and on…
If Thursday was a Boat…
“Here’s why I did not go to work today…” I’m spending this “surreptitiously unique” day once more in the moving process because time is running out, work was not advancing well anyway, and it’s got to get done. Somehow, somehow — at least Harry Nilsson is in my head. Think positive: progress is being made….
Boxing Day
Just taking a break from the numbing process. Today we need to box up everything that’s sitting on furniture large enough to have to be moved on the truck that we rented for tomorrow. Time to turn off the brain in order to avoid thinking about a) how much stuff we still have, b) how…
K. A. Laity 