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April 25, 2006
Not Feeling So Hot
I am not too sure what happened in the last 24 hours, but somewhere in between my post yesterday and this morning, I got pretty sick. I will spare you the details, but I feel like I got slammed by a semi truck and I am suffering from a terrible bout of whip lash. I don't like headaches or fevers. I HATE being sick :( I almost wonder if this is partly the result of last week's little adventure. I haven't run that many marathons, but the trend seems to be that I get violently ill after each one. Maybe my immune system is just shot from how hard my body had to work - especially from miles 23 to 26.2. All last week I felt completely depleted and exhausted. I started to feel better this weekend, and yesterday my legs were feeling fresh enough to run again. But I am glad that I have stuck to my no running plan for 10-14 days (I admire all of the marathoners who are out there the next day putting in the miles . . . ).
My presentation went okay yesterday. As always, I overprepared and then when the professor said, "speak," I turned bright red. I could feel the heat rolling off of my face (I always turn bright red when called upon to speak in a public forum). I managed to truck through the presentation, but around the time that I was presenting, I started to get really sick. I had crazy chills and the beginning of a migraine headache. The more dizzy and weak I started to feel, the more I began to wing the presentation since it hurt my head to look at my notes! I left out a lot of important details, but my Professor picked up the slack and kind of rescued me. I got home from class around 7PM, laid down, and didn't make it out of bed until 8AM this morning.
I am starting to freak out a little - one of my papers is due on Monday and the other one is due on May 5th. I also have a creative project due on the 5th. I have a little research done for each assignment, but not nearly enough to crank out some 15-20 page papers. I had ALL day today to work, but sitting upright hurt too much to work. I am finally feeling better so I am going to shift my focus to research for the rest of the night.
Happy Running!
Posted by bridget at April 25, 2006 4:48 PM
Comments
It is pretty common to get sick after marathons. Something about those reserves that you have to tap into to finish.
It is so impressive that you've been able to not run since the marathon. You'll be happy because your legs will feel so much better.
You definitely have a sub-40 10K in you. Trust me, it's there.
Hope you feel better,
Blondie
Posted by: Blondie at April 25, 2006 8:02 PM
Ok. Easy. You can run a good marathon. Maybe you can tap the same performance reservoir to feel easy about cranking out reasonable 10-20 page papers.
Just a sketchy idea, no guarantees. May not apply to you as you "already know all this," and all the other possibilities determined by lack of direct knowledge of you. But here we go. Won't be offended if don't read it all.
In the era of cut-and-paste which has greatly contributed to increasing our difficulty to produce original content, one approach could be to AVOID starting by googling the net only to get the feeling there's nothing new to think/write about.
How about trying to exhaustively ask the questions AND give the answers simply based on what you know and what you imagine? Letting your mind flow and letting the questions and answers roll? Like really flow and really roll. Like rapids in a river.
Ask yourself all the possible questions you can think of and keep track of answers. You'll find that if you can't think or imagine any answers, that might generate more questions: those that genuinely interest you and that you know you should be asking even though for some reason you are holding in. It is "Re"search, afterall. You need to bombard the issue with those Qs, again and again.
Ask and try to answer the questions that would be asked by someone you know closely that is completely different from you. There is no such thing as asking inappropriate (or too many) questions when you are doing research. Remember to keep some focus, so you can track back to the central theme of the research you have been asked for. But i would not be afraid to challenge this if the data you find in some way allowed it. Moreover, wondering on the outskirts of the research's focus may indeed help you to find an original angle to show your findings.
For example: Cyborg Feminism. You ultimately maybe your best source. What body adjustment/enhancement/techno-graft would you be prepared to have in order to run a sub 2:20 marathon? Would you do it to be better then the best woman or to beat more men? How would that affect your sense of self-worth and gender ties? What are the implications of body alteration: a gender-free society? Should men try to experience gestation with a cyborg uterus? Should they be required by law? Hence, is the cyborg-ing process additive, exclusive, neither or both?
So keep the questions rolling, answer all of them. Stretch your curiosity with determination. When you have done all this, THEN google the net and see if that can help you nail down and piece your information together; further deepen the research, ask more questions till you are satisfied. Test your level of satisfaction with someone you trust. Make additions if necessary, and there's your paper. Admittedly a little simplistic, it is only a sketchy, partial suggestion.
If it hurts (uderstandably) to sit and type, get a tape recorder, tape questions and answers and then when your're ok typing again, go for it. Otherwise, ask how much a fast typist would take for dictation. It may even end up being cheap. A friend might even volunteer... best wishes, Corrado
PS. now I am going to google Cyborg Feminism and see what the darn thing is :)
Posted by: corrado giambalvo at April 26, 2006 9:28 AM
It totally makes sense that you got sick because you were depleted from the marathon. Over-training has a similar effect (when I was over-training in college, I was CONSTANTLY sick). Also stress -- which you seem to have a lot of at the moment. Take some time to take care of yourself. It will be time well-spent. The papers will get done. They always do. Feel better!
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