Let me see. There are three events this week. First my writers group started up again. This is fun although we are already in the run up to the Off the shelf reading (It is free and all are welcome to come) which means I have to get two of my poems through another draft and ready to be read for a week on Monday. I probably should be doing them now but I will do it later this week.
Second was that I presented my report to elders on Thursday. It was one of those days and not helped by the fact I awoke with a sore throat. I also forgot to ring the minister to remind him I need to projector and screen. Actually everything otherwise went like clock work except I talked too much, saying some things earlier than I should of and having to repeat them. For the first part of the elders meeting they had a local councillor in talking on ways they could engage with the local community. Why is it that councillors think we should always engage with the homeless. I agree it is a good work, but this is a church already involved in Pathways and other homeless activities and really needs to find places where it can build relationships which will make it more outwardly focused. Its not at this stage about evangelism its about making friends on an ongoing basis. This is just something that have not bothered to do. The one really useful comment was by Helen who said that the majority of the serving elders now were incomers. Very interesting, I had not worked that out before, it shows as she said that the incomers were able to tap into with the powers that be when some of the local people weren't.
Unfortunately I still had a burny throat that evening and decided it was time to call the cold, a cold. Friday we were supposed to have Greek but Betty had just died and Sarah wanted to go up after the Broomhall Breakfast to see what she could do. With that and my cold greek was cancelled. So I nipped into town to get supplies and since then have been trying to hibernate. Unfortunately needed to go out to St Andrews today to set some of the heating (the rest can wait until I am better but the evening service today and the Tuesday group were likely to need the heat on before then). The rest has been sleeping, keeping warm, ginger drink which is supposed to be good for indigestion but also seems to do pretty well at relieving cold symptoms, taking vitamin C and zinc and echinaea plus having an essential oil warmer going with eucalyptus etc in it. Basically I have thrown everything I can at the cold and it is only shifting slowly. So I think I am going to be off work tomorrow but hoping I am back to functioning normally by Tuesday. Voice has gone today so it might be interesting informing people of my status tomorrow.
Sunday, September 27, 2009
Sunday, September 20, 2009
Birthday, Migraines and
Lets see about this weeks news. Monday I was down for a supervision at Birmingham. It is becoming a bit of a routine, but I should have been suspicious when I started drinking lots of coffee that perhaps I was not as well deep down as I was on the surface. I got there, only to find no supervisor. Some clown had booked a meeting for him, that clashed with our supervision which was on the day he got back from Holiday!! After waiting for fifteen minutes I went to the departmental office (the first time I have been there as this was the undergraduate one at the Edgebaston Campus and previously I have always dealt with the postgraduate office at Selly Oak. I ended up having a coffee in the office and reading while waiting for him. Trains also were having bad days, the train I should have got, but remembered wrongly and did not get to the station in time for, didn't run (there are some advantages to forgetting things at times).
Tuesday was my birthday, my original plan was to visit Rotherham Local Studies library and then go out to Roche Abbey but I could not book a car (did the car system know something I didn't) so I changed it to going swimming. I woke up in the morning, feeling as if everything was too much for me, so after opening cards and pressies plus phoning my parents I went back to bed. When I am at home I tend to think "Life's too much I will go back to bed" instead of "Life's too much, uh oh migraine, go back to bed". Which meant that by mid afternoon I was thinking of myself as lazy and bullied myself into going swimming (not recommended with a migraine) So I did swim. I also stopped by Jessops and spotted they had a lens I wanted at a price cheaper than I was getting on the internet (they were selling off an end of line which was why) unfortunately they only had it with a Cannon mount which is not much good when as I have a Nikon Camera but I managed to order the lens over the internet. Perhaps swimming does lift migraine temporarily, but I still would not recommend it.
Wednesday woke again feeling grotty, this was a work day, so I had to put in the migraine line and ring people up. Actually I had spotted that there was migraine about as I was exhausted far more than I ought to have been the previous evening so made sure I had the phone numbers for the next morning ready by the phone. In the evening I installed my foot pedal onto my computer and started using it to transcribe. It was just so nice to have the recording played for audio typist rather than for a person to listen to. There are subtle differences. With audio typist mode it goes back slightly when you stop it so you can check the last few words and pick up where you are typing from. It is also easy to play a passage two or three times until you get what is said. With a normal listener mode it starts off exactly where it finishes and the one thing I have tiresome in the transcription is that the software does not easily go back about the last sentence, so I have to go back a whole chunk and listen to it again.
Thursday some more transcription in the morning. The old technique as I had started doing this recording this way. Then into work to find out what was on the go. Not much it seemed and finally got to shop for food in the evening. In other words a fairly normal day if there is such a thing.
Friday was in work all day. Actually spent most of the time dealing with people. Anybody want anything from Ghana or to send anything too Ghana as I think I have a courier in the next month due to having sorted out one person from a pickle they have got themselves into once again. Then I went out with the Dickson's to Nawaab's for a meal. They both seemed to enjoy it and we ordered too much food (about a third of it was left, when we had all reached the stage where it was physically daft to try eating anymore). They of course then offered us dessert! No we didn't have any and coffee was at my place.
Saturday was pretty quiet. I went down town for some bits and pieces and then started creating a powerpoint presentation to give to elders at Chesterfield. I am also aware I am going to have to use another method of writing my piece for the next supervision as the weekend I would write on is very booked around. However nothing exciting was bought.
Today I have been to St Andrew's Chesterfield both morning and night. The morning as I had finished transcribing an interview with a couple where the husband had since died and I therefore wished to hand the interview directly to his widow. I normally send them by post. The numbers were few but the Junior church had a good time, I could see it on their faces when they came out. I came home had something to eat and had a nap, then went off with my camera firstly towards Ecclesall woods to have a play (most of the pictures were duds) and then onto Longshaw Estate, where I discovered that the new lens I got works fairly well for taking pictures of birds at birdfeeders. I went straight on from that to St Andrews, or sort of, I was doing fine until I decided to follow roadsigns instead of my instinct and I managed to do a massive detour and arrive just after six. Fortunately with Just Desserts this does not matter.
Tuesday was my birthday, my original plan was to visit Rotherham Local Studies library and then go out to Roche Abbey but I could not book a car (did the car system know something I didn't) so I changed it to going swimming. I woke up in the morning, feeling as if everything was too much for me, so after opening cards and pressies plus phoning my parents I went back to bed. When I am at home I tend to think "Life's too much I will go back to bed" instead of "Life's too much, uh oh migraine, go back to bed". Which meant that by mid afternoon I was thinking of myself as lazy and bullied myself into going swimming (not recommended with a migraine) So I did swim. I also stopped by Jessops and spotted they had a lens I wanted at a price cheaper than I was getting on the internet (they were selling off an end of line which was why) unfortunately they only had it with a Cannon mount which is not much good when as I have a Nikon Camera but I managed to order the lens over the internet. Perhaps swimming does lift migraine temporarily, but I still would not recommend it.
Wednesday woke again feeling grotty, this was a work day, so I had to put in the migraine line and ring people up. Actually I had spotted that there was migraine about as I was exhausted far more than I ought to have been the previous evening so made sure I had the phone numbers for the next morning ready by the phone. In the evening I installed my foot pedal onto my computer and started using it to transcribe. It was just so nice to have the recording played for audio typist rather than for a person to listen to. There are subtle differences. With audio typist mode it goes back slightly when you stop it so you can check the last few words and pick up where you are typing from. It is also easy to play a passage two or three times until you get what is said. With a normal listener mode it starts off exactly where it finishes and the one thing I have tiresome in the transcription is that the software does not easily go back about the last sentence, so I have to go back a whole chunk and listen to it again.
Thursday some more transcription in the morning. The old technique as I had started doing this recording this way. Then into work to find out what was on the go. Not much it seemed and finally got to shop for food in the evening. In other words a fairly normal day if there is such a thing.
Friday was in work all day. Actually spent most of the time dealing with people. Anybody want anything from Ghana or to send anything too Ghana as I think I have a courier in the next month due to having sorted out one person from a pickle they have got themselves into once again. Then I went out with the Dickson's to Nawaab's for a meal. They both seemed to enjoy it and we ordered too much food (about a third of it was left, when we had all reached the stage where it was physically daft to try eating anymore). They of course then offered us dessert! No we didn't have any and coffee was at my place.
Saturday was pretty quiet. I went down town for some bits and pieces and then started creating a powerpoint presentation to give to elders at Chesterfield. I am also aware I am going to have to use another method of writing my piece for the next supervision as the weekend I would write on is very booked around. However nothing exciting was bought.
Today I have been to St Andrew's Chesterfield both morning and night. The morning as I had finished transcribing an interview with a couple where the husband had since died and I therefore wished to hand the interview directly to his widow. I normally send them by post. The numbers were few but the Junior church had a good time, I could see it on their faces when they came out. I came home had something to eat and had a nap, then went off with my camera firstly towards Ecclesall woods to have a play (most of the pictures were duds) and then onto Longshaw Estate, where I discovered that the new lens I got works fairly well for taking pictures of birds at birdfeeders. I went straight on from that to St Andrews, or sort of, I was doing fine until I decided to follow roadsigns instead of my instinct and I managed to do a massive detour and arrive just after six. Fortunately with Just Desserts this does not matter.
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