NO FUN FOR A MONTH...
A full day of mostly nothing started with a call from Hammersmith Hospital resulting in an offer of £1400 to do a medical trial for an asthma drug.
Starting on the 22nd of this month, it'll last for about 3 weeks some of which will be inpatients and some overnight stays.
Though ideally I wouldn't have to do them, I don't mind medical trials once in a while. They work as detox. You can't drink caffeine or booze and all you have to do is sit around and laze away the day reading and thinking about how you're gonna spend the money when you come out.
A trial is also a handy source of biomechanical data on ones health and ftiness - the sort of thing you'd normally have to pay or hassell a doctor for. The last trial I did revealed I had high cholersterol (already) and more annoyingly a very low resting heart rate. My minimum is aroundabout 38bpm, the adult average is around 60bpm. Professional cyclists at the top of their game rarely get below 40 bpm so to be in that state of 'natural' fitness when i rarely exercise suggests 'I couda been a contender' and that makes me fucking mad if i think about it for too long...
My haemocrit level was a little low at 38, but that's what the pro cyclist take the drugs for, so it wouldn't have been a problem save the risk of a ban and a scandal...
Anyway, the best news today came from the Lea Valley Rivers Trust. I contacted them about doing some voluntary work on the canals around here and they got back to me saying yes. This is excellent news. Not only will I get my precious little hands dirty, but I'll get to swan about on bardges up and down the waterways like some kind of slow sea captain. I'll also be able to place my welly boots on the pulse of what's happening with the Olympics. All this is perfect for my Notes From Fish Island column..
My other main job today, was sorting out my 'Waiting' recordings.
4 or 5 years ago i was very into recording everything on minidisc. I got to realising that alot of the recordings were waits of one kind or another and so started to specifically record a series of waits..I planned and started a website to publicise these and encourgae other people to send in details of their waits and turn it into a bigger project...I found out about a week ago that someone is one the case, which saves me the job.. I contacted them and told them I had an archive of waits and he wants to hear them, so i've been listening through b4 sending...
The day's finished with a Gilbert and George documentary minus the sound. I got a message to my inbox form the driector this morning saying it was on. I guess he did a search for people with G&G in their profiles...
The no sound thing was double annoying because though I've seen them countless times, read all the books and seen a good deal of their art, I've never heard them speak other than very very briefly...
It looked like a good and interesting review of their careers, so I'll have to get otn this director about sending a copy...
Starting on the 22nd of this month, it'll last for about 3 weeks some of which will be inpatients and some overnight stays.
Though ideally I wouldn't have to do them, I don't mind medical trials once in a while. They work as detox. You can't drink caffeine or booze and all you have to do is sit around and laze away the day reading and thinking about how you're gonna spend the money when you come out.
A trial is also a handy source of biomechanical data on ones health and ftiness - the sort of thing you'd normally have to pay or hassell a doctor for. The last trial I did revealed I had high cholersterol (already) and more annoyingly a very low resting heart rate. My minimum is aroundabout 38bpm, the adult average is around 60bpm. Professional cyclists at the top of their game rarely get below 40 bpm so to be in that state of 'natural' fitness when i rarely exercise suggests 'I couda been a contender' and that makes me fucking mad if i think about it for too long...
My haemocrit level was a little low at 38, but that's what the pro cyclist take the drugs for, so it wouldn't have been a problem save the risk of a ban and a scandal...
Anyway, the best news today came from the Lea Valley Rivers Trust. I contacted them about doing some voluntary work on the canals around here and they got back to me saying yes. This is excellent news. Not only will I get my precious little hands dirty, but I'll get to swan about on bardges up and down the waterways like some kind of slow sea captain. I'll also be able to place my welly boots on the pulse of what's happening with the Olympics. All this is perfect for my Notes From Fish Island column..
My other main job today, was sorting out my 'Waiting' recordings.
4 or 5 years ago i was very into recording everything on minidisc. I got to realising that alot of the recordings were waits of one kind or another and so started to specifically record a series of waits..I planned and started a website to publicise these and encourgae other people to send in details of their waits and turn it into a bigger project...I found out about a week ago that someone is one the case, which saves me the job.. I contacted them and told them I had an archive of waits and he wants to hear them, so i've been listening through b4 sending...
The day's finished with a Gilbert and George documentary minus the sound. I got a message to my inbox form the driector this morning saying it was on. I guess he did a search for people with G&G in their profiles...
The no sound thing was double annoying because though I've seen them countless times, read all the books and seen a good deal of their art, I've never heard them speak other than very very briefly...
It looked like a good and interesting review of their careers, so I'll have to get otn this director about sending a copy...
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