tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541500.post8057273212213640626..comments2024-03-28T18:35:54.237+09:00Comments on BigHominid's Hairy Chasms: Happy Lunar New Year!Kevin Kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01328790917314282058noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541500.post-72493073076919294642017-01-29T21:05:34.404+09:002017-01-29T21:05:34.404+09:00Charles,
Thanks for the well-wishes. Things have...Charles,<br /><br />Thanks for the well-wishes. Things haven't gotten any worse, so maybe that's a good sign. Not sure I'll be fully OK by Tuesday morning, so in the end, Henry might be right.<br /><br />Brier,<br /><br />Many thanks. All the best for 2017.Kevin Kimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01328790917314282058noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541500.post-57726322225207511732017-01-29T20:08:52.943+09:002017-01-29T20:08:52.943+09:00Happy Lunar New Year to you as well. I am looking...Happy Lunar New Year to you as well. I am looking forward to reading about 'the walk'. brierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01004759022219857342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541500.post-78424183882659484162017-01-29T09:05:49.701+09:002017-01-29T09:05:49.701+09:00The same thing happens to me a lot, too. I don'...The same thing happens to me a lot, too. I don't know if it's exactly psychosomatic, but I know just what you mean. At any rate, I hope the mending process doesn't take too long, and happy new year!Charleshttp://www.liminality.orgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541500.post-16653723300576379122017-01-28T16:02:35.807+09:002017-01-28T16:02:35.807+09:00Henry,
I've added some language to the origin...Henry,<br /><br />I've added some language to the original post in the hopes of providing a bit more context and clarity. Ideally, readers will charitably assume that it's possible to fall ill and recover from illness despite being in the middle of a longish time frame for a work project.Kevin Kimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01328790917314282058noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541500.post-53865338214954941102017-01-28T15:42:31.281+09:002017-01-28T15:42:31.281+09:00Henry,
It's a recovery in the sense that I ho...Henry,<br /><br />It's a recovery in the sense that I hope to be cold-free by Tuesday, when I go back to work. This sort of thing happened to me frequently when I was a college prof: I'd be sickness-free throughout the semester, but the moment winter break rolled around—<i>boom.</i> Sick as a dog. Undoubtedly, there's something psychosomatic going on: perhaps a sense of duty was reinforcing my immune system until the end of the semester; the pathogens would gather for a frontal assault, but they couldn't get through until I "let go" and relaxed when the semester was finally over. So the psychological "collapsing with relief" at semester's end coincided with a somatic collapse of the immune system. This happened so consistently over my years of teaching that I think it's safe to shift my theorizing from mere correlation to actual causation. No doubt the psyche affects the immune system.<br /><br />Anyway, I'd get sick at the beginning of vacation, waste a week or so combating the illness, and would recover in time to enjoy a few weeks of bliss before the new semester began. That was definitely a recovery in the fullest sense. In my current corporate-slave job, however, I no longer enjoy super-long vacations (at Korean unis, you get 4-5 months a year off, which is why expats love such work if they can get it), so you're right to wonder aloud whether this quick recovery is a recovery in the fullest sense: I have a mere few days, then I'm right back to the grind, with the potential of becoming sick again very quickly.<br /><br />Let's say that I'd call this weekend's hoped-for recovery a recovery in a very limited sense. But we'll see: if I'm asymptomatic by Tuesday, and if I don't catch a cold all through February, then it'll be safe to say that I definitively, fully <i>recovered</i> from my cold.Kevin Kimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01328790917314282058noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541500.post-83461210871935247482017-01-28T13:47:21.352+09:002017-01-28T13:47:21.352+09:00Sorry about your cold, Kevin. Get well soon.
But ...Sorry about your cold, Kevin. Get well soon.<br /><br />But isn't it premature to be recovering from a "marathon that's going to last through February"?TheBigHenryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04917973198063733316noreply@blogger.com