Often, I find myself commenting on the bizarre nature of time. Much of the past year and a half has perplexed me because time seems to fly by as it lasts forever, a truly insane paradox. While I know that my daily emphasis on living in the moment is a primary reason for this strange [...]
My week has been bizarre. My energy seemed to wane throughout the week with each morning becoming more difficult. Yet, in the midst of that exhaustion, I managed to do some cleaning, to help out my team members by correcting our students’ quizzes and homework, and to get somethings done for a church group and [...]
Many of my colleagues at school subscribe to the following axiom, “Never make major life decisions in February.” The logic is fairly simple. As an educator (particularly in Minnesota), no month of the school year is more difficult than February. Cabin fever is settling in completely – both for adults and students – as your [...]
Sadly, I am writing well past my bed time, yet again. That said, I am handling things decently. Over the last few years, I have struggled mightily when I have gone back to work after longer breaks. Regularly, my expectations are far too high. Needless to say, I worried that returning to school after not [...]
One of the hardest aspects of a medication holiday is the fact that even when I feel coherent, I find it impossible to focus in any meaningful way. Although I was out for three different one to two hour blocks today, I also had more energy when I was awake. Yet, even with those moments [...]
The one post I started in November went unfinished until December 5th. Nothing could sum up the past few weeks better than that reality. Daily life has been a constant series of overwhelming occasions. Even more frustrating is that fact that nothing major has taken place within the scope of my existence. My family has [...]
The whirlwind of time has again swept me a month forward in time. While I cannot believe that a month has passed since the conference, I also feel like I have lived a year since then. The reality, though, is that I continue to struggle with getting my life on track. I am muddling through [...]
I arrived safe and sound (other than my ridiculous sinuses continuing to produce infected mucus) at the Minneapolis/Saint Paul airport about 4:30 PM CDT. I hope my live blogging from the last session that I saw (Dr. Faraco) captures how cool I think her and Dr. Mignot’s research is. After that ended, though, my life [...]
After doing a decent job of live blogging at Dr. Naiman’s session, I failed miserably at doing it at any other session. While I hope to do it again tomorrow, I have no regrets about my inability to live blog a second session today. Instead, I had marvelous conversations with a number of individuals. I [...]
I have only been to two Narcolepsy Network national conferences, but the opening fun tonight BLEW AWAY last year’s Friday night. The planning committee had conceived of the idea that we should have a sing-a-long with “re-writes” of songs, making popular tunes have lyrics about narcolepsy. I had glanced at them only a little before [...]