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Ill and busy
Sep. 19th, 2012 08:13 amI've been away from here for a long time (two weeks I think)..I read your posts, but I don't write much. I do some blogging at my other blog, mainly because I don't have to fill it with content, but can just post some pretty pictures, or because I write about specific Swedish stuff.
My health is really bad now. The arthritic flare isn't getting better and I have also
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Yesterday I started on prednisone, which will hopefully "break" the flare, but I got a bad reaction and spent most of yesterday being in lots of pain from all ove rthe body and sweatign a lot. This happened after my injection a few weeks ago too and then went away, so I hope it's just the initial reaction and that it will pass. Unfoirtunately this meant that I slept maybe three hours this night and I teach between 18 and 20 tonight. Maybe I can nap a little after I have sent Valeria to school.
I currently work half time, which is good, but I am still very stressed about work, since I haven't been able to focus on my presentation for the Pasold Conference next week. Not panicking yet, but a lot depends on making a good impression there - for example I want to write an article about the things I'm going to talk about and have it published in Textile History.
That presentation is on Saturday, in Stockholm, but on Thursday I give a totally different one at the Gothenburg bookfair - one of the biggest agencies for funding research in Sweden has asked me to present some stuff I wrote about the transition from viking to medieval manners of dress around the year 1000. I think have that presentation ready, which is good.
And finally the deadline for the final revisions for my article on foreign goods in 16th and early 17th century Sweden is on Monday the 1st. I plan to make most of that on the train to and from Stockholm.
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My health is really bad now. The arthritic flare isn't getting better and I have also
( TMI )
Yesterday I started on prednisone, which will hopefully "break" the flare, but I got a bad reaction and spent most of yesterday being in lots of pain from all ove rthe body and sweatign a lot. This happened after my injection a few weeks ago too and then went away, so I hope it's just the initial reaction and that it will pass. Unfoirtunately this meant that I slept maybe three hours this night and I teach between 18 and 20 tonight. Maybe I can nap a little after I have sent Valeria to school.
I currently work half time, which is good, but I am still very stressed about work, since I haven't been able to focus on my presentation for the Pasold Conference next week. Not panicking yet, but a lot depends on making a good impression there - for example I want to write an article about the things I'm going to talk about and have it published in Textile History.
That presentation is on Saturday, in Stockholm, but on Thursday I give a totally different one at the Gothenburg bookfair - one of the biggest agencies for funding research in Sweden has asked me to present some stuff I wrote about the transition from viking to medieval manners of dress around the year 1000. I think have that presentation ready, which is good.
And finally the deadline for the final revisions for my article on foreign goods in 16th and early 17th century Sweden is on Monday the 1st. I plan to make most of that on the train to and from Stockholm.
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