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fictionalSo, am back from SD. Actual 72 hrs in Palm Tree Land = very nice. Dominos, food, episodes of Forever Knight, lots of sleep albeit on a somewhat hard floor, general relaxation and an extremely comfortable couch.
24 hrs of travel on American Airlines with layovers, lack of sleep and generally busted-ass airplanes with terrible service and extreme discomfort = less nice.
Cold/Flu thing that I have picked up = very bad.
Last night, something weird happened to my vision. Everything became blurry/shimmery in spots - sort of like bits of my field of vision were devolving into rainbow, oasis hallucinations. Has this ever happened to anyone? I thought that I was going blind for a while - which is of great personal fear to me. I may have had a fever at the time, as I began to catalogue my options if I was indeed going blind, and oddly, the Final Solution seemed the most sensible and attractive.*
I was very frightened.
I'm better now, though still feeling a bit weird. Have made a doctor's appt. for tomorrow.
In other news, support the writer's strike by calling the networks and urging them to comply with writers' demands in talks today.
http://community.livejournal.com/wga_supporters/113820.html
*What an appropriate topic for an LJ post! Rest assured, I realize that in the broad light of (less delirious) day, this is less sensible than it at first seemed.
24 hrs of travel on American Airlines with layovers, lack of sleep and generally busted-ass airplanes with terrible service and extreme discomfort = less nice.
Cold/Flu thing that I have picked up = very bad.
Last night, something weird happened to my vision. Everything became blurry/shimmery in spots - sort of like bits of my field of vision were devolving into rainbow, oasis hallucinations. Has this ever happened to anyone? I thought that I was going blind for a while - which is of great personal fear to me. I may have had a fever at the time, as I began to catalogue my options if I was indeed going blind, and oddly, the Final Solution seemed the most sensible and attractive.*
I was very frightened.
I'm better now, though still feeling a bit weird. Have made a doctor's appt. for tomorrow.
In other news, support the writer's strike by calling the networks and urging them to comply with writers' demands in talks today.
http://community.livejournal.com/wga_supporters/113820.html
*What an appropriate topic for an LJ post! Rest assured, I realize that in the broad light of (less delirious) day, this is less sensible than it at first seemed.
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Date: 2007-11-27 08:20 pm (UTC)Going blind is a major fear of all humanities academics. Your fever thoughts aren't strange at all -- but I'm very glad to hear that you are no longer feeling that way ;) . When my lifestyle starts to really murder my sight and my eyes protest, I make a hot towel (microwave a damp hand towel for 30-6 seconds) and lay it folded over my eyes -- repeat as necessary. I also exact a reading/viewing ban on myself -- no tv, computers, books, anything. I try to focus in the distance as often as possible.
My vision continues to deteriorate :( .