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Jan. 20th, 2006 10:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tylikAs I stagger back from wushu, I'm reminded that earlier this week I had a chance to ask my doctor about the dizzy spells I've been getting (you'd think that having seen my doctor twice last month I could have realized that I was almost out of refills on my antihistamines. Feh.) Apparently the lowered blood pressure and dizzy spells are a known side effect from the meds I'm on for my back. So, my back is doing better, and I'm in a lot less pain overall, but my stamina is down and I end up seeing stars ever time I do cartwheels. Or sweeps. Or too many jumps in a row...
Oh well. I suspect that if I forge onwards my body will adjust, it's like my carrying capacity has been artificially lowered, so my heart needs to get even stronger. Pretty sure it's not doing me any real harm. Meanwhile wushu is harder. (Though running continues to get easier, in general.)
We're learning a cool new open hand form, the whole Friday night group, together.
Other odd things... I think I mentioned how my Chem professor was driving me out of my mind. (I think he actually beat out my first physics prof for worse lecturer ever. I mean, Geballe at least had a lot of enthusiasm for his subject, and there was some humor value in his writing with one hand and erasing with the other, and jumping on tables until they collapsed... almost twenty years later, I remember him fondly.) Last Wednesday, one of the other students pointed out that he probably had been really good at one time... and when she said it, I have to admit I could see it. And it was kind of depressing. Last friday he was ill, and the TA (who is quite good) taught the class. Wednesday, we get email that Daruwala, the prof I was so fond of over the summer, will be finishing up the class. Now I'm worried about our former Chem professor -- I mean, perhaps he wasn't really that awful, he was just in bad shape. And I liked him, even if he wasn't being particularly effective teaching the subject.
Otherwise, things grind on. The database continues to do well -- will wonders ever cease? This has been the week of me getting far too little sleep, though, which really sucks.
Oh well. I suspect that if I forge onwards my body will adjust, it's like my carrying capacity has been artificially lowered, so my heart needs to get even stronger. Pretty sure it's not doing me any real harm. Meanwhile wushu is harder. (Though running continues to get easier, in general.)
We're learning a cool new open hand form, the whole Friday night group, together.
Other odd things... I think I mentioned how my Chem professor was driving me out of my mind. (I think he actually beat out my first physics prof for worse lecturer ever. I mean, Geballe at least had a lot of enthusiasm for his subject, and there was some humor value in his writing with one hand and erasing with the other, and jumping on tables until they collapsed... almost twenty years later, I remember him fondly.) Last Wednesday, one of the other students pointed out that he probably had been really good at one time... and when she said it, I have to admit I could see it. And it was kind of depressing. Last friday he was ill, and the TA (who is quite good) taught the class. Wednesday, we get email that Daruwala, the prof I was so fond of over the summer, will be finishing up the class. Now I'm worried about our former Chem professor -- I mean, perhaps he wasn't really that awful, he was just in bad shape. And I liked him, even if he wasn't being particularly effective teaching the subject.
Otherwise, things grind on. The database continues to do well -- will wonders ever cease? This has been the week of me getting far too little sleep, though, which really sucks.
