andrew_jorgensen ([personal profile] andrew_jorgensen) wrote2006-04-24 10:28 pm

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A quick glance through my LJ calendar reveals that I have a tendency to go months on end without saying much of anything, and post frenetically for about two weeks. This seems to be the end of one of those manic periods, so we'll have to see tomorrow whether or not I can break the cycle. I think I put too much pressure on myself to write, and I think this paralyzes me. Especially as I usually prefer to shy away from diary-style recountings of my day -- as I don't do much of interest on a daily basis.

Today I blew off any idea of going to the optometrist -- between various appointments, I couldn't really free an hour or more to sit around her office -- and in fact decided that my eye infection was neither fusarium keratitis nor [livejournal.com profile] rahael syndrome. The eyeball is still a light shade of mauve or puce or one of those colors straight men can't recognize, but the swelling and gooping have completely subsided. After planning to wear glasses all day, I dared instead to attempt some of the daily disposibles my doctor gave me for SCUBA diving. They stayed in for the duration without irritation.

Also today I went to the second of my two free personal trainer sessions at the JCC. I'm not sure how many of the exercises I'll retain; my brain had turned to meringue by the end. There's one thing I do know, though: I'm going to need a bigger water bottle.

[identity profile] nzraya.livejournal.com 2006-04-25 04:43 am (UTC)(link)
Hey, at least you know "puce" is in the red bit of the spectrum, not the "chartreuse" family as 97% of the rest of humanity (straight or gay, colonian or post-, pink or brown) mistakenly believes! And on the whole, I think puce is a marginally less shocking color for the usually no-coloured bits of the eye to be than chartreuse (which would seem to imply optical gangrene, or something similarly dreadful).

errata

[identity profile] nzraya.livejournal.com 2006-04-25 04:44 am (UTC)(link)
*coloniaL or post. Also, noN-colored bits of the eye (but I stand by my British "u").

[identity profile] dherblay.livejournal.com 2006-04-25 11:23 am (UTC)(link)
Wikipedia rules ok (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_colors).