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[theseeker]

I don't want to interrupt the argument but: I'm pretty sure I have Carpal Tunnel Syndrome or some other kind of wrist/nerve thingy. The problem is I have 3 hours of mandatory orchestra every week (additionally to violin lessons every other day), which basically worsens the condition of my wirst, and without a doctor's note, there's no way I can not play. And I can't get an appointment yet. FML.
It's fucking painful, too.

When I started playing guitar, I would get serious hand cramps (it would hurt to play, and faster passages would be impossible to play after 2 hours of playing), and my doctor told me I had arthritis and to just take ibuprofen. My flute teaher told me that's bullshit. If there's something wronge with your hands and you're a musician, it matters. It could be way more serious than you think it is. Until you get an appointment with a legit hand specialist (I believe that there's a very good musician's clinic in Boston that I'm going to in a month or so), ice your hands before and after you play, and take ibuprofen before really long rehersals.

I really hope that helps...

[Pope Totalfrog]

I don't want to interrupt the argument but: I'm pretty sure I have Carpal Tunnel Syndrome or some other kind of wrist/nerve thingy. The problem is I have 3 hours of mandatory orchestra every week (additionally to violin lessons every other day), which basically worsens the condition of my wirst, and without a doctor's note, there's no way I can not play. And I can't get an appointment yet. FML.
It's fucking painful, too.

Try alternating ice and heat packs after you play. A wrist brace would help while you were playing.

[Annebelle.]

My feet hurt as if it's summer... (for some reason, my feet often hurt during warm weather, the way they feel now, feels like when they hurt when its hot outside)

[The Angel Raliel]

My feet hurt as if it's summer... (for some reason, my feet often hurt during warm weather, the way they feel now, feels like when they hurt when its hot outside)

that would be to do with the blood pressure in your feet....unless you have gout....and yes i have had gout despite not actually living in the 18th century...it fucking hurts....is it actually in the joints or just a general throbby foot pain?

[CeeGBee]

it just clicked that this whole argument is stemming from the fact that I *am* questioning what my
teachers are telling me. They say CS Lewis is important, I say he's not. Fuck it.

True (possibly helpful) story from my own education:

The exam question was something like "Why did Blah D. Blah do such & such? Provide details.", but
the instructor had put it on the page:

                                                                                Why
did Blah D. Blah do such & such?  Provide details.

I missed the "why", answered the question in the negative (No, he didn't, and here's my reasoning.)
The instructor marked it wrong, but when we went over the exam, I saw what had happened, caught
up with the instructor after class, and successfully explaineded my answer to the instructor's satisfaction,
and got full credit.


If the instructor actually has it wrong, you should be willing to say so, and prepared to defend the position.
Worst they can do is....  well, give you an F (or whatever the UK university equivalenty is...) but maybe they'll
respect you a bit more....

Give 'em hell heck.

[theseeker]

Family.

[Indja]

Tell us all, Seeker Bo Beeker.

@Charlie - His theological importance is only implied in the fact that he's the subject of a question at all. The actual question is about temptation in "Perelandra". Not much to argue about, I'm afraid. Also, I value pretty points and people telling me how clever I am way more than I value academic integrity

[The Angel Raliel]

Indja go read George R Macdonald's Lillith..it is what C S Lewis based much of his work upon and it was written by an actual theologen! seriously..I loved this book and this is nothing to do with the argument

[Indja]

I'll add it to the list, but be warned - the list is bigger than me at the minute o.O

[The Angel Raliel]

George R macdonald is a good way to put down CS lewis ophiles in the same way that Dunsany is a way of patronising Tolkien fans

[Rosebud]

Thanks to everyone for the advice and response.

@Frog: My teacher already suggested that, but with water instead. I'll try it later tonight.

@Theseeker: I'm definitely going to try seeing a doctor. However, I don't think it's arthritis, rather a nerve problem (but then again, I'm painfully uninformed about arthritis, so I might be wrong on the subject).

@Indja: I'd empathy-high-five you if my hand felt better!

[theseeker]

Tell us all, Seeker Bo Beeker.

Major rant, no one read it I guess please.

They're all awful. I just can't deal with it. There's so much shit and idiocy coming from my parents all the time. When I was little I had nightmares that my teachers and people I looked up to would act like my parents are acting now. My dad's not all that awful, he just calls me fat all the time, but I blame his anti-smoking meds I 'spose.

Some important things to know: my mother is extremely overweight, as is everyone on her side of the family. She's extremely (physically) healthy, besides being overweight (I guess that makes you unhealthy these days), and when she was my age she was in the norm, weight-wise. I'm somewhat athletic and fairly healthy about omnoms. I'm 200.4 lbs exactly, and very fucking upset about it. I don't eat candy, hate chips, and actually like vegetables, unlike others in my weight range. More recently, I've taken to not eating, which is rather bad. My meds+my being all sad-like makes me unmotivated to consume anything...

My mother, on the other hand, insists on nagging every fucking second about everything. I get awful chronic migranes, I'm terrified I have a brain tumor or something; her voice is a huge stressor and just hearing it makes my skull ring. She calls me fat, stupid, useless, lazy, blahblahblah, all the time, as if that'll help me do better. She told me that I should stop eating like my (previously very unhealthy) oldest sister did. I mean, it worked for her. She told my that I should kill myself (note to potential parents: when your teen tells you that they've had suicidal thoughts, at least hug them), that she'll send me to public school (what the actual fuck. Is this supposed to make me upset? I like my school's music department, the only difference between my school and our local high school is that I'd take a bus and I'd not know anyone...), that I'd look pretty if I just lost thirty pounds, that I should give up an instrument despite music being the only thing I'm fucking good for, that I don't care about my guinea pig (I don't let him go under my bed because he likes chewing on electrical wires. Electricity+teensytinyanimal=dead teensytinyanimal), that I've ruined her life, it just goes on and on. I really only stay in this house because they pay for my shit, but I'd much rather be homeless than deal with her constant ASOJD (previously multiple fucks and much usage of the shift key). I think she's made me insane or something. I never get a moment of clarity at home.


I've got two older siblings, and they're both off at college. The slightly younger Indja-look-alike is almost as bipolar as me; we can barely have a conversation without her fucking attacking me. When I asked her to not join in with my eldest sister in making fun of my lesbianism (that word's hilars. I seriously never use it.) She told me "it's funny because you take it so personally." She's fucking asexual, and has loads of queer friends.  Who makes fun of something beyond a person's control (or anything, for fuck's sake) when they know how confusing and awful it can seem?


I can't even talk about my oldest sister, I hate them all, really.

Well that helped a bit, I guess...

[Captain Oblivious]

I can't stand Lewis myself

I was all "whaaaat?" and then I realised you meant C.S...

[The Epigrammic Poultry]

My dog had a fit this morning :/

[Indja]

@Seeker - I am sending you MASSIVE hugs. Sounds like you're in a seriously toxic environment, and my heart goes out to you xxx

@Roisin - No, I have no strong feelings either way about your Lewis xD