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Heavy Books
Feb. 8th, 2011 12:02 pmI (and my bad spine) intensely loathe carrying heavy things for any distance longer than across a room. Case in point: my three extremely heavy hardcover textbooks for my astronomy class. One of them is called The Illustrated Encyclopedia of The Universe,, so you can just guess how much that one alone weighs. All of them together are like carrying a loaded mini-refrigerator.
A mild deformity in my lower spine makes weight-bearing on my back mostly impossible. I can't use backpacks at all, so I'm left with tote bags. But even carrying that was extremely painful for my spine and should not be repeated. I don't know how the teacher thought we could just easily carry these stone slabs around. The average student age at Cambridge College is 42. Most of us aren't strapping young bucks and does, and especially, I'm not.
Also, these are beautiful, expensive, illustration-rich tomes and I don't want to drag them around in the snow and sleet and rain. They'll get ruined.
Considering that we did not crack the books even once during last night's class, I asked for (and received) permission to only bring one book at a time to class. She'll tell me each week which book of the three to bring next week and I'll bring that one. I am not a pack animal.
A mild deformity in my lower spine makes weight-bearing on my back mostly impossible. I can't use backpacks at all, so I'm left with tote bags. But even carrying that was extremely painful for my spine and should not be repeated. I don't know how the teacher thought we could just easily carry these stone slabs around. The average student age at Cambridge College is 42. Most of us aren't strapping young bucks and does, and especially, I'm not.
Also, these are beautiful, expensive, illustration-rich tomes and I don't want to drag them around in the snow and sleet and rain. They'll get ruined.
Considering that we did not crack the books even once during last night's class, I asked for (and received) permission to only bring one book at a time to class. She'll tell me each week which book of the three to bring next week and I'll bring that one. I am not a pack animal.