 Fun times with brain chemistry
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Sep. 11th, 2009 @ 04:59 am 
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So, I'm currently in the process of washing out (most of) my current antidepressants, in order to switch to a different one - under the instructions and guidance of my psychiatrist, mind you. This is, of course, the express ticket to Fucked In The Head you might imagine, and the sad thing is I didn't realise that was what was screwing with my brain yesterday until Dean was like, "Dude, I totally saw this coming, relax."
The next week or two should be Interesting Times.
... huh. Dreamwidth just gave me a "Restored Draft" of the post I was working on about twelve hours ago on a different computer and never finished.
Anyway, it's now 5am, and despite only getting about three hours' sleep last night, I can't sleep, at all. Hooray, fucked-up brain chemistry!
The best part is my supposedly-joyful trip out earlier this evening to go see Up! with ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png) elaran earlier this evening.
Without wanting to give spoilers, a few minutes into the movie I started crying uncontrollably, and thereafter everything that happened just seemed drenched in pathos and woe. It got so I couldn't stand it, and - for the first time in my life - I left the film early. (Early enough, mind you, to get a ticket refund, which was nice.)
Someone laughed at me, and I was deeply hurt by that - but at the same time, hey, I'm sitting there sobbing real tears at a Pixar movie.
On the bright side: planning for my trip to Britain continues apace. Travel arrangements are getting booked by travel agent. To my astonishment, I shall apparently be driving a Mercedes B 180 SE (something like that) or similar, for 78 days, for AU$1200.
My mind, it is somewhat boggled.
Some exploration of accommodation options in various areas suggests that B&Bs are really not that expensive, which is good.
Since I'm going to be over there longer than I was originally vaguely theorising - shall, by current travel arrangements, be arriving at Heathrow on the 6th of October and departing on the 22nd of December - I'm looking at going into Western Europe, too. Check out some major historical sites, maybe go to Legoland in Denmark... then, maybe, catch the Oslo ferry, and scoot up a ways through Scandinavia and, as well as taking some potentially gorgeous photographs, see if I can catch the Northern Lights.
I would love to see the Northern Lights, and in October, it's nominally pretty feasible.
Still working on a rough itinerary plan. Currently, my rough idea is: from London, go to Uncle Ian's to recover from the flight, depending on whether that's going to be feasible for him and his family, then head north. Edinburgh and Mary, then Aberdeenshire and Great-Uncle Ian and his family, ferry from Aberdeen to Orkney, ferry from Orkney to Caithness, south again, stop at Worcester and Great-Aunt Eleanor, onward to... Dover? to get the ferry across the Channel to France, then head north towards Scandinavia.
It might marginally increase my chances of seeing the Northern Lights if I aim for Norway first, but I'd rather go see my kin first. I could also skip Orkney entirely.
I did buy a GPS device, which came with maps for Australia, and I bought maps for the United Kingdom, Western and Central Europe.
The problem is, as it turns out, the otherwise-totally-pleasing GPS device doesn't quite have data storage space available for Australia *and* the UK/Western/Central Europe. (The problem here is largely Europe, which is almost 2GB of maps, where Australia is 100MB. There's less to map.)
However, it's not like I'm going to want both at the same time, and swapping them by connecting to my computer is trivial. (Somehow, I find it hard to envisage circumstances in which I would urgently need GPS driving navigation assistance for Europe and Australia in quick succession.)
I'm glad GPSes exist, because driving around foreign countries should be a lot less stressful when I have a little device to feed me directions, rather than having to mess around trying to work with maps. I'm used to using Perth street directories, but even that can be stressful finding thoroughly unfamiliar places, and this is my home town, and Australia is very, very different, in terms of geographical layout kind of stuff, from Britain and Europe.
Britain, at least, is so very densely occupied. I'm from Perth. The nearest major city to mine is halfway across the continent. Far further than, say, London to Edinburgh.
But my GPS includes things like petrol stations and Points Of Interest, which I think is pretty awesome, and, you know. Directions. "Where the hell am I going? Oh, right, thattaway."
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If you get a chance to get up to Abisko or Narvik, in northern Sweden and Norway respectively, that area's gorgeous and it's famous for the northern lights in winter. I know you're not reading me (which is cool! no big deal :) but I'm putting up the photos from my trip. I can drop you a comment when I get my Kungsleden/arctic Lapland pics up, if you want.
I think this trip sounds awesome and you're gonna have a blast :D
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| From: | sami |
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September 11th, 2009 03:54 am (UTC) |
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Awesome.
For the record, I periodically skim the journals of people who read me who I don't read in return, but since I'm struggling to keep up at the moment as it is, and I'm shortly going on holiday... not adding anyone new. (Though I get you totally are not complaining or anything!)
Pictures sound awesome though.
I aim to have many, many photos from my trip. :D
I sobbed my eyes out during large portions of Up, and I'm not even contending with any medication issues at the moment. You are not alone!
I am sorry about the meds, but glad at least you know what it is.
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| From: | elaran |
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September 11th, 2009 03:48 am (UTC) |
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explanation time! also apology time? or something.
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Someone laughed at me, and I was deeply hurt by that - but at the same time, hey, I'm sitting there sobbing real tears at a Pixar movie.
The laughter WAS NOT directed at you! Sorry. The person who laughed thought it was me sobbing*, she didn't know it was you**.
* I also had tears streaming down my face, that part broke my fucking heart. I am fairly sure we were not the only two people crying at the movie.
** She is allowed to laugh at me crying seeing as she usually sits next to me for a great many movies and consoles me while trying not to laugh too hard at how overly involved I get with movies [e.g. the last three HP movies] :P
*GLOMPS YOU*
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| From: | sami |
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September 11th, 2009 03:52 am (UTC) |
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Re: explanation time! also apology time? or something.
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That is an improvement, actually.
*RETURN GLOMP* Yeah, that part was tragic, the problem was more that I couldn't move on, y'know?
Thanks for being understanding about me bailing. ♥
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