ups and downs
Sep. 16th, 2010 03:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jinianHad a grueling but potentially productive conversation with PI the other day. Shockingly, my poor health is affecting my work! I'm also not interested in the project she initially had me working on, though I felt pressured into it and thought I could develop an interest. I managed to tell her again what I still really want to do, though sadly we agreed there's no real way to do it. And I outright laughed at her at one point when she got that Taken Aback look she sometimes gets, and even told her why, and it was okay. Still an exceedingly difficult relationship, but we're working on it. (Maybe next time she will realize that putting the very detail-oriented person onto a high-throughput has-to-be-done-half-assed project is not going to go well? I live to educate through my mishaps!)
My next big project will be a pottery class starting in October. I did weaving last fall; maybe I need an organized way to do productive handwork occasionally? I just hope I actually don't suck at pottery. Usually I'm good at handwork, so it'd be disappointing if it turned out really difficult. (Also I want to make something to remind me of the first-quarter moon I've been admiring, though it could never be nearly so beautiful.) Brother-out-law warned me that he thinks this class is where his devoted potter dad caught the bug. I think my innate dilettantism will win out, though. I'm excited!
So far my verdict on the progesterone-only birth control is: Not Fun. Hopefully the side effects will settle out soon. PMS-style headachey and hot with extra dizziness is not how I want to spend my life. We'll see if it even helps with anything. It's the only idea we've got for ameliorating the abdominal pain without exploratory surgery, since there are still no theories that make any sense for wtf is going on.
My next big project will be a pottery class starting in October. I did weaving last fall; maybe I need an organized way to do productive handwork occasionally? I just hope I actually don't suck at pottery. Usually I'm good at handwork, so it'd be disappointing if it turned out really difficult. (Also I want to make something to remind me of the first-quarter moon I've been admiring, though it could never be nearly so beautiful.) Brother-out-law warned me that he thinks this class is where his devoted potter dad caught the bug. I think my innate dilettantism will win out, though. I'm excited!
So far my verdict on the progesterone-only birth control is: Not Fun. Hopefully the side effects will settle out soon. PMS-style headachey and hot with extra dizziness is not how I want to spend my life. We'll see if it even helps with anything. It's the only idea we've got for ameliorating the abdominal pain without exploratory surgery, since there are still no theories that make any sense for wtf is going on.
