working at the office

[kareina]

 I woke in the middle of the night with discomfort in my hip, on the left side of my tailbone. It has done this a couple of times before, always on days after doing the HIT app, which is weird, as during the training my body feels good, but clearly something is getting out of position doing it. Last time I found videos on line for adjusting one’s hip on one’s own, and it cleared up. But perhaps it is time to talk to a physical therapist about how to keep it from happening again, if I can find a good one.

 

I must not have remembered to plug my computer in properly yesterday evening when we did training, as when I got on the bus this morning, the computer started to turn on, and then abruptly turned off again. Normally I just work on battery power on the bus, and it is fine. I got out the cable and plugged in the computer, but it took a while before it would turn on. Luckily, today was a day I had a messenger conversation with my SCA mother, so I was glad of the excuse to not have a computer on which to work.

 

By the time she said goodnight my computer was functioning again. But by then we were close enough to town that it didn’t seem worth working, so I updated this instead, and looked up physical therapists in Umeå. There is one whose office is reasonably near the uni, so I may call them—they open around the same time I will arrive on campus.

 

I blame the hip discomfort on the part where I forgot to pack my water bottle, so all of I have had to “drink” during my morning bus ride is the apple and orange I brought with me. So, as soon as I arrived I went straight to the lunch room, and found a 2 liter carbonated water bottle someone had left, so I rinsed it out and filled it, and had something to drink from the rest of the day.

 

I did try calling a couple of physical therapists, and sent messages to a couple of others, but didn’t manage to find any with time today, though one I messaged said that they regularly get last minute cancellations, so it is always worth it to check.

 

During full department Work Place Meeting I was having problems hearing the speaker, so I pressed the button my hearing aids, and suddenly I could hear the sound from the microphone piped directly into my hearing aids. This is the first time I have neededthat program, usually a microphone playing in the room iis good enough.

 

While I was in that meeting, they delivered my office soffa. Yay! After the meeting I met with one of the PhD students who had been involved in digitising a lot of old documents associated with an archaeological excavation back in the 1990’s, to find out what they did and get an introduction to the collection. I have volunteered to see if I can make sense out of the information and transform it into an archaeological report to turn into the county in which the excavation happened. Apparently as one of the archaeologists who ran that dig later got a PhD from us, we are responsible to write the report, and if we don’t the county may forbid us to ever be involved in another excavation in their county limits.

 

My motivation, on the other hand, is to get a bit more directly archaeology related experience, and I think it will be fun to look at the artefacts and write the report. It will certainly need an introduction that says something to the effect of “for reasons beyond our control some of the information from this excavation is no longer available, but…”

 

So this afternoon I looked up the name of the person who led the dig and found them on FB! Much to my delight, I have one friend in common with them, so I sent the mutual friend a note and asked for an introduction. This got me permission to send a direct message, so now I have sent a note introducing myself, and asking if it might be ok to do an interview. I hope they say yes!

 

Keldor had planned to stay in town and catch a hocky game, which didn’t sound interesting to me,so it seemed like a good opportunity to do someabout the shire “tablecloths” (they are black cotton bedsheets, but they work fine as tablecloths), which had gotten wax dripped on them.

 

Just after I sent a photo of the project to the shire chat, with the caption “I am not saying I don’t like hockey, but this sounds more fun”, Keldor walked in the door, feeling sorry for himself, as he didn’t get to see the game after all. Poor thing. Apparently they normally play the game at the theater in Folketshus in Skelleftåhamn, and he likes seeing it there, in comfortable seats, with a crowd of fans, but it didn’t happen this time.