{"id":302,"date":"2002-11-08T15:00:52","date_gmt":"2002-11-08T20:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karinajean.com\/wp\/?p=302"},"modified":"2006-08-22T15:06:35","modified_gmt":"2006-08-22T20:06:35","slug":"work-related-illness-and-how-much-i-love-knitting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karinajean.com\/wp\/2002\/11\/work-related-illness-and-how-much-i-love-knitting\/","title":{"rendered":"Work related illness and how much I love knitting."},"content":{"rendered":"

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Oh, the weekend is tomorrow! <\/span><\/p>\n

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I can\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2t even imagine what my life will be like when I\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2m done with this project. Our next big big deadline is Monday night, and Tuesday? I may be very sick. You know how it goes, when stress and adrenaline keeps the tiredness and sickness at bay and when all is over, you suddenly explode into sleep and sickness and sniffles and coughs and tired and stay in bed? That\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s what\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s going to happen. Knowing how I have reacted in the past to constant work I could probably hold off illness for a few days, but then the baseline exhaustion won\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2t go away for months, no matter how much I sleep in on weekends.<\/span><\/p>\n

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It\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s the western approach to medicine, though, that will make it hard for me to stay home on Tuesday. I am so used to waiting until I am very ill it\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s hard for me to say \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cthis is a preventative measure, therefore, it\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s valid and appropriate.\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d<\/span><\/p>\n

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The only things that are keeping me going on this project are:<\/span><\/p>\n

I have forgotten what I would usually do in the evenings when I don\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2t have to work late.<\/span><\/p>\n

Stress, consistent lack of sleep, and more caffeine than I\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2ve drank in the last 3 months. (I think caffeine gives me gas. Not stinky, gross, hide the children gas (or, as I\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2ve been told before, that\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s what I think), but just plain old air poots. Weird!)<\/span><\/p>\n

The faint hopes that my suggestions will be acted on and at the end of the year all team members will get t-shirts that say: \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cNasty Lake: Our Science is Tight.\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Last night was so wonderful and fun. I left work mostly early and met some glitterati at a coffee shop by Union Square to knit scarves for a charity scarf drive \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u20ac\u0153 we\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2re going to make scarves and give them to a woman\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s shelter for the holiday. Their kids get stuff from toys-for-tots type charities, so wonderful cowgirly thought we should give something to the women. <\/span><\/p>\n

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I stayed out later than I had planned to, because the company was fantastic and I rediscovered how much I love knitting. For so long I\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2ve been working on little dinky projects \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u20ac\u0153 gifts for people, mostly. It\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s been kind of exhausting to pay attention to patterns, or to deadlines. And I was terribly nervous about knitting the scarf because I hate knitting scarves \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u20ac\u0153 they\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2re so long, and boring, and tedious. I always feel like I have a lack of gumption, or something, because I\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2m terrified of getting bored during a project and never finishing. But I\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2m working with this lion brand homespun yarn and it\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s knitting up really fast! I don\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2t know if it was the fun company and sassy conversation, or if it\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s just because the yarn is a little thicker than I\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2m used to using, but I\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2m really zipping along and I\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2m starting to feel 100% better about scarves. Well, maybe 78% better. I still don\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2t like doing something that takes so long, and requires so little concentration. Now, dishcloths? The perfect project. Really! They\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2re so fast and easy. Instant gratification.<\/span><\/p>\n

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When I was walking home from the subway station I felt kind of euphoric. I don\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2t think it was just b\/c I had left work \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cearly,\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d but also because I realized again how much I love to knit. I guess I\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2d forgotten a little bit. It was so nice to sit there and watch the scarf grow as it fell from my needles.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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