Mortaine’s Blog

Here’s what I’ve learned about prednisone after 1 week:
1) It screws with my temperature, makes me feel hot and cold flashes. Whee.
2) It screws with my sleep schedule. The doc warned me that I could have “vivid dreams.” My reply was something like “how would I know the difference?” Truth is, I haven’t had especially vivid dreams. Instead, I have had a lot of tiredness and little sleep. Of course, that might be due to two kitties playing on me all night long for the last 2 nights….
3) It *may* be screwing with my digestive system, or I might have just gotten food poisoning at Friday’s catered lunch.
4) It works on the poison oak. Mostly. My legs still itch, but the rest of me is definitely healing.

About the only really scary thing that happened on it was Saturday night, when I took it later than usual cause I almost forgot, then woke up in the middle of the night, wondering if I’d taken it twice. Counted out the pills in the morning– I was fine.

Oh, I’ve had a sore throat since last Tuesday (yeah, the day I went to the doctor). So far, it hasn’t gotten worse (prednisone?), but it hasn’t gotten any better yet, either. Mint tea helped the most, so I think I will drink more of that today.

In other news this weekend: I made yarn! It’s a good way to procrastinate from packing. On Saturday I went to a geocaching workshop and met some of our local cachers. Alladin had his vet appointment Sat. morning– he weighs 8 lbs. now. Sunday was the D&D game. I worked on my CV this weekend, and on Friday I called one of my former professors to ask for a letter of recommendation, which I learned from Cabrillo I can send in with the packet and don’t need the prof to send separately.

I have been thinking a lot about what I want to do (work-wise), and how to make the next move. Cabrillo would be very good for me, I think, but I need also to keep my options open, and watch more carefully for the opportunities that would be best for me and John.

I have to write a 1-page essay on “what does diversity mean to me?” I can write about a lot of subjects relating to academia, but this one sucks. I *hate* the whole diversity discussion, which seems to me to be a very thinly veiled method of tokenism, when in fact, diversity is rampant in schools like Cabrillo, where everyone has a chance at affording a college education, and almost nonexistant in schools like Hampshire, where your financial aid gets screwed if you don’t have two affluent parents who are married to each other. Basically, economic availability=diversity. Anything else is just bullshit.

Now how to write that into a 1-page essay that will get me the job….