Since I live in Nepal, I get stomach parasites pretty frequently. This
means a trip to the doctor, a series of oral antibiotics, and several
days in bed half-asleep, half-awake. This is my predicament now.
I find that when I am recovering from nasty stomach parasites I can
still write e-mails and check websites but not really do anything that
requires more than 30 seconds of continuous concentration. I learned
both vi and emacs while recovering from diarrhea. I have never read
anything serious or made any intelligent decisions while half-conscious.
Why is this? Maybe because the brain chews up a lot of energy. Serious
though requires more energy while playing around w/ your editor doesn’t
require much seriousness or sustained concentration or work out when you
have to run to the toilet every 5 minutes.
Things I won’t accomplish today: Read another chapter in "Understanding
the Linux Kernel," start reading Structure and Interpretation of
Computer Programming. Something I may do, set up my emacs environment
for programming Scheme. Since I know the lead developer of SLIME, I know
some people to look to for answers.
Damn, I feel tired and my eyes are closing.
10 minutes later . . .
Other stuff I have done while recovering from stomach viruses:
1. Watched all 5 seasons of the Wire during a particularly bad illness
2. Watch all 4 seasons of "It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia" (in
progress)
