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Entry tags:
- audiobooks,
- eyes,
- food,
- pt,
- writing
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I'm taking notes in preparation for two fics, first my assignment for the Wayback Exchange, second my promised fic for the Fandom Trumps Hate auction. The former has a hard deadline, so I'm hoping to finish it quickly. Right now, I just want to write something. I've managed small fragments of several different stories, but nothing's really caught fire since November.
I'm finding that Overdrive is a terrible way for me to listen to audiobooks. It doesn't fit my general approach because my tendency is to listen to an hour of this and an hour of that and then not go back to audiobooks for a week or three. Overdrive only gives me 14 days, and I mostly don't finish in time. It's not usually that I'm not interested, just that I can't handle that much all at once.
I'm still having days when I'm very light sensitive. Unfortunately, I often don't realize that that's the problem until my eyes ache. It feels like dry eyes but isn't.
Not that I don't have dry eyes-- At that appointment I had with an eye specialist a few weeks back, the doctor told me to apply heat to my eyes at least twice a day and then to massage my eyelids, top and bottom. Apparently I have problems with the oils that are supposed to keep my eyes from drying out. The heat is meant to melt those oils a bit and the massage to spread them to where they ought to be going naturally. He said that artificial tears won't help because it's not lack of fluid that's the underlying issue; it's that the oils are necessary in order for the water-based bits to do anything.
I can tell that the heat and massage are changing something, so I guess this will be part of my routine from here on out.
Tomorrow, we're getting together with Scott's family to celebrate our nephew's birthday. He's twenty this year. Scott's sister is still trying to find a restaurant that has food I can eat. Sadly, this one isn't looking promising. It's a sushi place. They don't seem to do anything else, and all of their rolls contain cucumber which makes me sick. I'm probably going to end up ordering the tofu appetizer and, maybe, the tempura appetizer. The fried elements are risky, but I'm hoping neither dish will have added seasoning.
I'm finding that Overdrive is a terrible way for me to listen to audiobooks. It doesn't fit my general approach because my tendency is to listen to an hour of this and an hour of that and then not go back to audiobooks for a week or three. Overdrive only gives me 14 days, and I mostly don't finish in time. It's not usually that I'm not interested, just that I can't handle that much all at once.
I'm still having days when I'm very light sensitive. Unfortunately, I often don't realize that that's the problem until my eyes ache. It feels like dry eyes but isn't.
Not that I don't have dry eyes-- At that appointment I had with an eye specialist a few weeks back, the doctor told me to apply heat to my eyes at least twice a day and then to massage my eyelids, top and bottom. Apparently I have problems with the oils that are supposed to keep my eyes from drying out. The heat is meant to melt those oils a bit and the massage to spread them to where they ought to be going naturally. He said that artificial tears won't help because it's not lack of fluid that's the underlying issue; it's that the oils are necessary in order for the water-based bits to do anything.
I can tell that the heat and massage are changing something, so I guess this will be part of my routine from here on out.
Tomorrow, we're getting together with Scott's family to celebrate our nephew's birthday. He's twenty this year. Scott's sister is still trying to find a restaurant that has food I can eat. Sadly, this one isn't looking promising. It's a sushi place. They don't seem to do anything else, and all of their rolls contain cucumber which makes me sick. I'm probably going to end up ordering the tofu appetizer and, maybe, the tempura appetizer. The fried elements are risky, but I'm hoping neither dish will have added seasoning.
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FTH is a panic mode. I can easily write what is wanted... but can I make it INTERESTING for 5k words?
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Wayback needs some careful consideration because it's a prompt that's got a lot of in-the-eye-of-the-beholder elements that I want to get right by both my definitions and my recipient's.