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[extemporanea]

How do I hate this time of year? Let me count the ways. Apart from the manifest iniquity of board schedules, the exam committee season is distinguished by our exclusion review committee, which I instituted a few years back in a fit of loving nurture of student interests/control freakishness/complete insanity/all of the above, and which is a

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[ext_2298326]

This is very interesting. I don't buy acupuncture as such, but I've recently started seeing a new osteopath who uses needles extensively. I don't enjoy or respond particularly well to cracking, so I once asked him to do as little of it as possible. He mainly used needles that time, some with an electric current, and the results were very good - all without the violence of cracking. Placebo? Could be. I'll take it, though, seeing as physiotherapists have so far managed to make next to no difference to my aches and pains. (Will using a Twitter account work for commenting, I wonder... Of the list, it's the only one I've got.)

[wolverine_nun]

(Have you changed your commenting settings? I had to essentially re-log-in, which was unsettling...)

Sounds ouch :( Do you get to go on leave eventually?

11 incorrect exclusions? How does that happen? I thought it was all pretty cut and dried with prerequisites, credits, all that jazz.

[extemporanea]

I am on leave from the 19th. I am counting the sleeps :>.

Incorrect exclusions happen, because you should never underestimate (a) the needless complexity of our degree structures, (b) the ability of students to create curriculum snarl-ups which boggle the mind, and (c), despite my best and ongoing efforts, the insouciant vagueness of some of our rules. Or, I suppose, (d) the fundamental unfitness of most academic minds for basic repetitive clerical checking. But it's a complex process. At least one of the errors we caught was on my board schedule, which means I missed it myself first time round.

I have in no way disturbed the comment settings, so I think LJ was simply hissy-fitting at you momentarily. As it does.

[strawberryfrog]

Yay Holidays! Related, would you like to meet up for something suitably relaxing after that date?

[ext_737886]

Given your comments about dry needling you're probably going to hate this very idea, but just fyi, I have this scary looking Bed of Nails pillow (google it) that I used with AMAZING results. Just ignore the word "acupressure" and "holistic" and suchlike crap on the website, because it really isn't, it's just - as you say - pain+endorphins=less pain. Or something. Honestly though... it WORKS. To relieve exactly the sort of excruciating knotty muscles etc that you describe. I was in agony, getting worse by the day, but this sorted me right out within a few days (with steady improvement starting immediately).