I always thought that the strains of academic life would resume to phenomena such as writer's block, notorious self-doubt, lack of free time and private life, burn-out, childlessness and general psychological disbalance.
Little did I know that academics can also be physically crippled by their life-style. I mean of course we face what every person sitting in front of a computer or books the whole day faces, things like back problems, lack of exercise, etc. (Oh, and a friend of mine lacks vitamin D because she doesn't get enough sunlight.) But it gets even better: On Monday, I was diagnosed with tendosynovitis, which is also - as I just learned - very tellingly called typist's neuritis. So now I sit in front of my computer wearing a bandage on my left hand, and I am thus officially an academic cripple, both physically and psychologically speaking.
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