muddlin' Monday
May. 23rd, 2005 10:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ffloHaving minor nasal/sinus problems with major congestion complication: CPAP don't work with no clogged nose. So exhausted today; took it off work, napped (inefficiently, sans CPAP), did freelance in spurts (got a lot done there at least). Used up the last of these first Netflix on hand.
Feeling daunted by housekeeping.
Drank half the pool "swim"ming yesterday. Snorted the other half. This is a frustrating juncture, and I really hope to get in the pool before the next class. My goggles broke, too, so gotta get a new pair, and maybe a swim cap, too---even tied back, some of the hairs keep finding their way into my face. If I win the lottery: prescription goggles. Or contacts for swimming? Do people swim in contact lenses, or is that crazy? Seems to me my ex- scratched a cornea in the ocean doing that---particle of sand in the eye---ended up at the (Wilmer?) eye clinic at Hopkins. In the pool perhaps the greater danger is losing one? Anybody help me on this? It's odd the way I feel naked at the pool cuzza not being able to see.
Boy, did we ever do some ER visits in that town, between her & me & dead Bill. (Before he was dead.) Not to mention![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
vjsmom's summer at shock trauma.
So the weekend was good. I don't know that I'll be a diehard fan of the Detroit Demolition, but it was a fun experience. Oh, and this: Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill NOT disappointing, despite high hopes; in fact, very highly recommended, indeed. Good on the big screen, too. Heartbreaking, some, but heartening, too, or whatever the heart-bolstering word would be. Ol' Jane did a good job with so much about it. I'm thinking now of her editorial instinct for just how much "big message" stuff to get at, and for just how much self-referentiality, filmmaking-wise-speaking, to leave us wanting more. Go see it!
Feeling daunted by housekeeping.
Drank half the pool "swim"ming yesterday. Snorted the other half. This is a frustrating juncture, and I really hope to get in the pool before the next class. My goggles broke, too, so gotta get a new pair, and maybe a swim cap, too---even tied back, some of the hairs keep finding their way into my face. If I win the lottery: prescription goggles. Or contacts for swimming? Do people swim in contact lenses, or is that crazy? Seems to me my ex- scratched a cornea in the ocean doing that---particle of sand in the eye---ended up at the (Wilmer?) eye clinic at Hopkins. In the pool perhaps the greater danger is losing one? Anybody help me on this? It's odd the way I feel naked at the pool cuzza not being able to see.
Boy, did we ever do some ER visits in that town, between her & me & dead Bill. (Before he was dead.) Not to mention
vjsmom's summer at shock trauma.So the weekend was good. I don't know that I'll be a diehard fan of the Detroit Demolition, but it was a fun experience. Oh, and this: Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill NOT disappointing, despite high hopes; in fact, very highly recommended, indeed. Good on the big screen, too. Heartbreaking, some, but heartening, too, or whatever the heart-bolstering word would be. Ol' Jane did a good job with so much about it. I'm thinking now of her editorial instinct for just how much "big message" stuff to get at, and for just how much self-referentiality, filmmaking-wise-speaking, to leave us wanting more. Go see it!
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swim-o-dynamic!
Date: May. 24th, 2005 02:06 pm (UTC)It's not the seeing while I'm swimming that's the problem, really---though the goggles thing is really helping with the learning curve, I think, as not having to remember to shut my eyes is one more advantage. Plus it's good to be able to have an idea where you are in the lane & to be able to watch where your arm/hand is in this rudimentary breathing stuff we're doing. When I want to see is when I'm talking to people (whom I can't recognize later, or even differentiate from more than a few feet away) or just getting the lay of the land of the pool. Plus there's that odd disadvantaged feeling of most everyone else being able to see very well but being hindered that way yerself. It often makes me think, as I used to as a kid, what it'd be like to've been nearsighted back in the cave people days, and how us eye-weak folks likely didn't do so well in the ol' natural selection dept back then.
I am getting a little sick of my hair smelling like chlorine all the time, even after multiple shampooings.
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Date: May. 24th, 2005 02:30 pm (UTC)Seriously. The stuff is really bad for your hair over prolonged exposure. My hair was super short most of my life because it got so damage from the chlorine. You don't want that.
And you need to be able to see when you swim because there's that whole traffic issue of which side of the lane you should be on, and also being prepared for the edge of the pool when you get to it is an advantage. It's not good to smack your face on it. It's much easier overall if you can see.
Don't you think that there must have been weak-eyed folks back in the cave-dwelling days? I wonder what they did? I bet that they were considered to have a divine affliction and were respected as priests and priestesses within the community.
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Date: May. 24th, 2005 08:41 pm (UTC)i don't know if i saw it...
i would like to see you, though, when you come to town. do you think peg would mind if i dropped by?
and, silly or not, the swim cap is a necessity for some serious swimming.
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Date: May. 24th, 2005 09:03 pm (UTC)don't mess with a girl on her period, y'know. that's just cruel.
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Date: May. 25th, 2005 07:51 pm (UTC)how fun.
hey, PiJ and I are talking about moving to France soon!!!
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Date: May. 25th, 2005 09:44 pm (UTC)no problem!