Notes

[serene]

1) Can't decide if the injured ankle is a blessing or a curse. Well, it's both, I guess. I'm getting LOTS of rest, but I'm also getting cabin fever. First world problems.

2) Having a ton of fun building a new project. It will get its own post today, under access lock, because even though mom rarely reads my journals, I don't want her to see what her birthday present is.

3) Anything I planned to do today (really, just housework) is officially cancelled in favor of the MythBusters marathon! Well, maybe I'll do a little housework on the commercials. Or not.

4) I used to like to sleep. I used to do it a lot. Nowadays, though, I sleep maybe 5 hours, wake up at ungodly hours of the morning (today, it was 3am) and just stay up. I get so much done while everyone else is sleeping that I actually don't mind this, but it does mean I'm wasted by 9pm.

5) Made my first rib roast last night. Called mom for instructions. Came out GREAT.

6) Little things that brought me joy yesterday, even though I wasn't feeling all that hot:

• the new water bottle someotherguy bought me
• playing games with the kid, who is always really pleasant for a few days after we have an argument and the world doesn't collapse (she's afraid of parental anger, and who can blame her, but we actually argue well, without being very mean to each other)
• dinner: the aforementioned roast, mashed potatoes/carrots/cauliflower, gravy, and steamed green beans. Yum.
• a phone call from stonebender while he was out and about, just because
• honeydew from the farm box: sweet and ripe and delicious

Comments

[nellorat.livejournal.com]

I understand that "First world problems" is to put the pain into perspective, but really, I think (1) an injured ankle would be considered complaint-worthy even in societies with much worse problems, and (2) I'm not sure that an injured ankle gets treated any better in a developed country--you can't do much for it besides heat and pain killers, both available in any culture I know of. "Cabin fever" is more of a first-world problem, but you are still cooking, playing with the kid, and probably other low-movement "women's work," which, as far as I can tell, is what you'd end up doing in a subsistence economy.

Now, if I got valium for a shoulder spasm and complained that it made me dopey, that would definitely be a first-world problem. Or complaining if my air conditioning went out. Or a million other things.

But an injured ankle, I don't agree. Yes, you feel less desperation in other areas, but an injured ankle seems to me to be an injured ankle. Mainly a pedantic point.

[serene]

The part I think is a first-world problem is that I have cabin fever, rather than having to go to work anyway or lose my job (I am off from work now, but if I weren't, I would have sick leave and medical insurance). But yes, it was mostly to remind myself that things aren't so bad.

[nellorat.livejournal.com]

I wish lack of sick leave and lack of medical insurance were not problems in first-world America! I think a lot of agrarian societies do a better job of taking care of their ill than some capitalist-industrial societies do. But that's what America gets for being first-world but not civilized.