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We headed home about 7:45 so that I could call my mother. She seems to be doing pretty well. I was a little puzzled by her comment about having forgotten that it was Mother's Day since I'd rather expected to be the last of the three of us to call. Apparently not. I tried to call my grandmother but got the "all circuits are busy" message. If I remember (I forgot last night), I plan to call her tonight.

I told my mother about what the ophthalmologist had said, and she commented that, even as an infant, I'd had trouble processing visual information. She said that it had always seemed to her as if I lacked a filter of some sort. That combined with a comment from a friend that perhaps my fear of driving comes from a subconscious realization that I can't process information that fast has led me to wonder about some of my other fears. Is my dislike of crowded places related more to not being able to track what's going on than to the more common social phobias? Do I prefer closed curtains and staying inside more because that limits the visual stimuli? It might explain why standard medications for anxiety haven't helped me at all.

Interestingly, I have the impression that this might be something that could be tracked and diagnosed. I don't know that it could be treated, but it seems worth pursuing. Now I just have to figure out a three word explanation for why I'm asking for an appointment with my doctor…

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I spent most of Monday resting and relaxing. LunarGeography came over late in the afternoon, and we role played through a rather difficult scene for her character in the Wednesday Amber game. I hadn't wanted to do that bit with an audience because it was long and emotionally intense and because her character was trying to get the npc involved to open up about some very traumatic events which required that I come up with details of said events. When I role play into those dark places, I start giggling which is highly inappropriate and makes me think much less of my acting.

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Scott has dropped out of the database class he was planning to take, so he's now got most of his evenings free. That's going to take some getting used to but will be very useful when it comes to getting things done. I'm glad he made that decision but sorry that he had to. It's just that the term is 10 weeks instead of 15, and summer is when he has the most overtime.

It is looking like we won't have to rearrange our Saturday schedules yet. Scott's work is cutting back on the weekend overtime again, and we can't predict when they'll actually start summer hours or which days Scott will have to work. This is good but kind of annoying as I'd finally managed to work things out with Matt to get the change to go smoothly. Fortunately, he's willing to leave it as a contingency plan to be implemented when needed.

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We discovered over the weekend that GenCon had omitted one of our games from their pre-reg information. That should be fixed shortly, but I shudder to think how hard it would have been to deal with them without the group we're working with. The housing situation still hasn't been cleared up. My psychotherapist who has mobility issues herself has suggested that I contact the Milwaukee Center for Independent Living as they may have some ideas for dealing with either the convention or the hotel. She's of the opinion that any CIL would have to take notice of an event on their turf as big as GenCon (upwards of 30,000 people, the last I heard).