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Mar. 10th, 2018 12:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_rckI woke with a headache after about six hours of sleep and couldn't get back to sleep. Caffeine and an Amerge took care of the headache, but going back to bed after wasn't feasible.
My right index finger is hurting again after two days of not, so I don't know what's going on there. I still don't have a good way to remind myself not to move that joint. I tried an Ace bandage on Wednesday, and it only kind of helped. It also made other things hurt because compression shifts pretty much everything in the palm of my hand.
Cordelia's choir concert on Thursday wasn't quite as long as the one in December. I managed not to fall asleep (I didn't really think I would, but I kind of wanted to because I was exhausted).
There was one number that the A Capella Choir did that was actively heading me into migraine territory because they played games with the lighting. My eyes don't like sitting somewhere dark and looking at something bright. They like it even less when the level of light I'm looking at changes. For this number, they started with the stage lights off and brought them up gradually and then took them back down gradually during the course of the song. I think it was supposed to make us think that a day was passing. I kept my eyes closed through most of it, but it's very hard to do that when I'm in a space like that because it feels unsafe.
The nearby middle school had its 7th and 8th grade choirs in the concert, too, and they did some numbers apart from the high school choirs. Some of the middle school kids did solos, and my main take away was that it's horribly unfair to ask a boy that age to try to sing a solo. I also don't think that any of the middle school soloists actually knew how to support a singing breath with their abdominal muscles and diaphragms. I'm a bit sad about that because it's a thing that transfers to any sort of public speaking.
I set out my distance glasses to take with me to the concert but ended up accidentally leaving them behind because I ended up searching for my water bottle at the point when I should have picked them up to take them with me.
I'm thinking to increase my word count goal for the year. I'm at 78.5K words for the year to date, and my goal was 100K. Unless things go utterly pear shaped, I'm going to blow past that by the end of April/beginning of May. I think I'll just go to 150K to allow for me slowing down because that is a thing that could (and probably will) happen. I wrote more than half of what I've got now in January, and I think that will be atypical in terms of words per month. I can change the goal again later if I reach a point where 150K seems too large or too small.
I found out on Wednesday that the LTD review people hadn't received all of what my psychiatrist's office faxed them. The LTD people never compared the page count they were supposed to get with the page count that they should have gotten, so they assumed I just hadn't bothered to do that bit. Fortunately, once the person who called me actually looked at the fax sheet, she knew that that was the problem. I've mailed them a hardcopy of it (they won't accept attachments because I might be trying to infect their systems or some such), and my psychiatrist resent everything. My psychiatrist told me, after, that her fax machine kept trying to pull through everything I'd printed at home as one page (all ten pages of it). Neither of us could figure out why giving that we've got a pretty standard printer and were using standard 8.5 x 11 paper from OfficeMax.
I'm hoping that that's taken care of. It really didn't make the end of the week better.
My right index finger is hurting again after two days of not, so I don't know what's going on there. I still don't have a good way to remind myself not to move that joint. I tried an Ace bandage on Wednesday, and it only kind of helped. It also made other things hurt because compression shifts pretty much everything in the palm of my hand.
Cordelia's choir concert on Thursday wasn't quite as long as the one in December. I managed not to fall asleep (I didn't really think I would, but I kind of wanted to because I was exhausted).
There was one number that the A Capella Choir did that was actively heading me into migraine territory because they played games with the lighting. My eyes don't like sitting somewhere dark and looking at something bright. They like it even less when the level of light I'm looking at changes. For this number, they started with the stage lights off and brought them up gradually and then took them back down gradually during the course of the song. I think it was supposed to make us think that a day was passing. I kept my eyes closed through most of it, but it's very hard to do that when I'm in a space like that because it feels unsafe.
The nearby middle school had its 7th and 8th grade choirs in the concert, too, and they did some numbers apart from the high school choirs. Some of the middle school kids did solos, and my main take away was that it's horribly unfair to ask a boy that age to try to sing a solo. I also don't think that any of the middle school soloists actually knew how to support a singing breath with their abdominal muscles and diaphragms. I'm a bit sad about that because it's a thing that transfers to any sort of public speaking.
I set out my distance glasses to take with me to the concert but ended up accidentally leaving them behind because I ended up searching for my water bottle at the point when I should have picked them up to take them with me.
I'm thinking to increase my word count goal for the year. I'm at 78.5K words for the year to date, and my goal was 100K. Unless things go utterly pear shaped, I'm going to blow past that by the end of April/beginning of May. I think I'll just go to 150K to allow for me slowing down because that is a thing that could (and probably will) happen. I wrote more than half of what I've got now in January, and I think that will be atypical in terms of words per month. I can change the goal again later if I reach a point where 150K seems too large or too small.
I found out on Wednesday that the LTD review people hadn't received all of what my psychiatrist's office faxed them. The LTD people never compared the page count they were supposed to get with the page count that they should have gotten, so they assumed I just hadn't bothered to do that bit. Fortunately, once the person who called me actually looked at the fax sheet, she knew that that was the problem. I've mailed them a hardcopy of it (they won't accept attachments because I might be trying to infect their systems or some such), and my psychiatrist resent everything. My psychiatrist told me, after, that her fax machine kept trying to pull through everything I'd printed at home as one page (all ten pages of it). Neither of us could figure out why giving that we've got a pretty standard printer and were using standard 8.5 x 11 paper from OfficeMax.
I'm hoping that that's taken care of. It really didn't make the end of the week better.
