muddlin' Monday

[fflo]

Having 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 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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[vjsmom.livejournal.com]

I know that when Brian used to wear contacts, he could not swim in them. But that some years ago, so the technology may have improved by now. BTW, it is the Wilmer Eye Clinic at Hopkins. I visited there a coupla times myself--you may recall that one of the docs there had thought that perhaps a prism lens in my glasses might do something to help the vision in my right eye. Didn't work, but it sure sounded like it would've given me a cool way of looking at the world. Or at half of the world. Or something.

I tried to call you after my women's meeting tonight. We had a really cool speaker--she talked a lot about sleeping around when she was younger. She thinks now that it was all a part of her rebellion against her family's trying to teach her that sex was bad. She says she was sort of doing a subconscious "I'll show them," but then covering a lot of her ambivalence and guilt with booze. And using booze to get herself into a condition where the sleeping around (even though she was married at the time) seemed like a good idea. Hmmm. Sounds like college (except for the married part).

[masculine-lady.livejournal.com]

I swim in contacts, with goggles. no loss incurred. For years, I was very afraid of swimming because I couldn't see. With contacts and goggles, I fear no more.

Okay, that's a little extreme. I am much less afraid now.

[maffick.livejournal.com]

i'm not sure, but i don't think that they have contacts for swimming. not to mention that the chlorine with or without contacts will really burn your eyes. contacts with goggles is a very fine solution, me thinks. you and m really make me want to go for a swim. i gotta get back into that.
also, a swim cap is another wise investment if you spend much time in a pool. chlorine is really bad on the hair and it makes it a lot easier to swim with one on. i know you might feel funny at first, but it's much more swim-o-dynamic (the water equivalent to aerodynamic, which i just made up :-).

swim-o-dynamic!

[fflo.livejournal.com]

I love it.

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.

[fflo.livejournal.com]

Oh, good idea.

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[maffick.livejournal.com]

"I am getting a little sick of my hair smelling like chlorine all the time, even after multiple shampooings."
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.

[groovesinorbit]

Haven't swum in ages, myself. Used to just take off my glasses and go for it. But I didn't do a lot of lane swimming. Agreeing with others on the chlorine issue. Icky stuff, that.

[peteralway.livejournal.com]

Hydrodynamic?

[masculine-lady.livejournal.com]

yeah, and much cheaper than prescription goggles.

as an aside, everytime I have typed "goggles" (including that time), I type googles and have to correct it. Maybe I spend too much time on the internet.

[fflo.livejournal.com]

It SHOULD have 2 Os---like the eyeballs. gOOgles. I suppose the round parts of the two central Gs could be the lenses: GOggLES (doesn't work in upper case).

Now I am thinking of the eyes of Dr. T. J. Eckleburg.

[maffick.livejournal.com]

ahha!
there's someone whose coffee kicked in this morning!
thanks. i really feel foolish right now...

[fflo.livejournal.com]

foolish, schmoolish! why use a humdrum, logical existing word when you can invent a fun new one??

[maffick.livejournal.com]

yeah!

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[vachementmoi.livejournal.com]

see, i know i should get a swimcap now because i just spent 86€ having my hair highlighted. and you know it's sad that, having been to the pool three times in the last week and seeing all those folks with swimcaps on that i didn't even think about investing in one. but then too, all the folks that wear swimcaps also have 'serious' swimsuits while I, sexy (or getting that way) chickie that i am, wear a bikini to the pool. and a stripey stringy one at that. i think it would look silly. but then i'm not sure i care. i mean, after all, i probably look pretty silly walking around in a bikini to begin with. but i have to show off my new tattoo that i got last summer. gah, swimming fashion issues all around. i need to go to bed.

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[maffick.livejournal.com]

new tattoo?!
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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[vachementmoi.livejournal.com]

hmm, shar, i don't know if i want to see you or not. i mean, even though you're in the top twenty on my list of favorite people, i just don't know if i'll have the time, what with my glamorous social calendar and all. and also, you know what a bitch you can be, knocking kids around and trying to dunk them in the pool, and also the kicking of dogs. JESUS, of COURSE you can stop by. jackass. anyway, planning a little party, but don't know when.

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[maffick.livejournal.com]

almost broke down in tears there for a sec.
don't mess with a girl on her period, y'know. that's just cruel.

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[vachementmoi.livejournal.com]

lol! sorry, i didn't know.

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[maffick.livejournal.com]

it's alright. i'm on an upswing now!

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[vachementmoi.livejournal.com]

i got a swimcap and gOOgles today.

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[fflo.livejournal.com]

right on, right on!

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[maffick.livejournal.com]

yay!
how fun.
hey, PiJ and I are talking about moving to France soon!!!

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[vachementmoi.livejournal.com]

just going to up and move here, huh? where ya gonna live? nearby, or you guys wanting to hang out in paris? because if you're going to be parisian, then piss on ya both.

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[maffick.livejournal.com]

nah, we thought we just squat at your place and let you feed us for awhile. *grin*

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[vachementmoi.livejournal.com]

okay then. i'll be here after august 20. you'll be babysitting while i work. *no grin*

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[maffick.livejournal.com]

haha
no problem!