frualeydis | Back on track (Reply)

It may not seem so, but it really is a good sign that I have trouble falling asleep because I can't stop thinking of work. It means that the processing of the rejections of my applications has reached the point where I'm ready to move on. I'm not ready to read the rejection papers yet, but I'm thinking about how to make new applications and how to make the old ones better. Right now I'm working on a presentation at a conference in Berlin in three weeks, a presentation that will hopefully become an article in a swedish anthology. It's a discussion of Scandinavian dress from the late iron age through the Middle Ages in relation to Europe, and what social meanings one can see in how Scandinavian manners of dress were constructed.

Probably the prednisolon is helping too, that I'm not hurting as much as a week ago, but I think it's mostly a mental thing. I still can't write much because of pain, but my brain is working again!!

ETA: I spoke too soon: apparently I am coming down with a cold. My head hurts and it feels funny and not at all comfortable in my nose and throat.