Personal Post Number 500 and Maybe Planting Trees?
Seeing as this blog has for quite a while largely become only a personal one, reaching this number was only a matter of time, and now that time has come. Not that this would in itself be a problem, but the problem is the lack of non-personal posts lately, as now those book reviews I copied here as well are the only reason why I still have less posts in the Personal and Tests & Surveys categories than in the others. Eliminate the Books category and the number of personal posts exceeded non-personal ones for the first time two weeks ago. The post that followed that one drew the two major categories level once again, but this is likely the last time that will happen if you don’t count those reviews.
The reason why I’m writing this now is not only to avoid another Sunday update, but because those who organize this spring’s major tree planting effort here finally posted some of the locations and one is close to Bucharest, so I rushed to register as a volunteer. Kept meaning to take part in something like this for years and I guess it was about time, though the date is still three weeks away, so plenty of things can happen before then and I guess I also have plenty of time to somehow change my mind, or simply realize I can’t do something like this, considering what it means.
The neck’s obviously one concern, as it’s definitely not getting any better, but quite the contrary, and taking part in such an action will obviously require a lot of effort and moving in various ways that may not agree with such problems. But, of course, that’s hardly the only reason why I’m concerned about it, and this morning I even once again experienced the sort of pain I occasionally wake up with, the difference being that now it didn’t seem to go away when I moved into the position that usually makes that happen within a few minutes and I eventually needed to get up before it did, and a rather uncomfortable feeling remained since then anyway. This feeling is hardly new, but coupled with the main issue and the fact that something definitely seems to have moved in a different way around there and the methods I used to manage these issues no longer seem to work doesn’t paint a pretty picture.
No idea what I’ll do about that, but writing about it here won’t help either, so let me end this by saying that the pain wasn’t the only reason why I only slept some three hours this morning. In fact, it started hurting after I turned around, trying to get back to sleep after waking up for apparently no reason. Unfortunately, I found out the reason mere moments later, as I began to hear loud drilling and hammering noises from the neighbors, which continued for quite a number of hours. So I can only hope they’ll take, and give me, a break tomorrow… And also on the day before the tree planting, because I definitely won’t be getting any sleep that night, seeing as I’ll need to be up around the time I usually go to bed, if not even before.
