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flexibeastSince my last post, my health has taken a noticeable turn for the worse - lots more pain, much less ability to keep myself upright. i suspect it may be something to do with changes in the weather: from a daily max. of 8°C to a daily max. of 30°C within a week.
It's really frustrating not to be able to get to the housework that needs doing. It's even more frustrating when i can't even do much of the reading i want to do because my head is so fuzzy that i'm having difficulty concentrating. So, for example, i've been trying to read through the chapter on measure theory in Borden's Advanced Calculus, but have only been able to progress in very small steps. i got most of the way through Rojas' Tutorial Introduction to the Lambda Calculus, but haven't been 'with it' enough to comprehend his description of a predecessor function. Nor have i been able to finish a fascinating paper about 'Orc', which is basically a process calculus. i have, however, been making slow progress through Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa's Of Occult Philosophy, as long as i've got a quiet environment to read it in (and the Paragrasp extension for Firefox has been helping, too). And i've even managed to make a bit of a start on my Jabber-client-in-Haskell project.
The reason i have so many things on the go at once (apart, some would argue, from the fact that i'm a Gemini with Gemini rising ;-) ) is that i try to do as much as i can on one particular thing, until i reach a point where - usually due to my poor health - i am unable to make further progress. Then i switch to something else, something on which i can make some progress. (And if i'm feeling particularly brain-dead, like i was yesterday, that will probably involve games of KMahjongg :-) ). But of course, if i'm not careful, i can end up with quite a backlog of tasks to do, such that when my health improves, i have to work my way through said backlog. Which in turn can wear me out. Which means that my overall progress can end up being rather slow - such that, when i go through better periods, i am often astonished by how much i can get done when i'm not weighed down.
So although i'm not getting a lot done at the moment, i expect the wheel to turn, and i'll be able to accomplish more. :-)
It's really frustrating not to be able to get to the housework that needs doing. It's even more frustrating when i can't even do much of the reading i want to do because my head is so fuzzy that i'm having difficulty concentrating. So, for example, i've been trying to read through the chapter on measure theory in Borden's Advanced Calculus, but have only been able to progress in very small steps. i got most of the way through Rojas' Tutorial Introduction to the Lambda Calculus, but haven't been 'with it' enough to comprehend his description of a predecessor function. Nor have i been able to finish a fascinating paper about 'Orc', which is basically a process calculus. i have, however, been making slow progress through Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa's Of Occult Philosophy, as long as i've got a quiet environment to read it in (and the Paragrasp extension for Firefox has been helping, too). And i've even managed to make a bit of a start on my Jabber-client-in-Haskell project.
The reason i have so many things on the go at once (apart, some would argue, from the fact that i'm a Gemini with Gemini rising ;-) ) is that i try to do as much as i can on one particular thing, until i reach a point where - usually due to my poor health - i am unable to make further progress. Then i switch to something else, something on which i can make some progress. (And if i'm feeling particularly brain-dead, like i was yesterday, that will probably involve games of KMahjongg :-) ). But of course, if i'm not careful, i can end up with quite a backlog of tasks to do, such that when my health improves, i have to work my way through said backlog. Which in turn can wear me out. Which means that my overall progress can end up being rather slow - such that, when i go through better periods, i am often astonished by how much i can get done when i'm not weighed down.
So although i'm not getting a lot done at the moment, i expect the wheel to turn, and i'll be able to accomplish more. :-)
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Date: 2006-11-21 03:04 (UTC)And no wonder you're tired - you've had an awful lot on recently, it seems . . . .