| March 14th, 2010 |
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I haven't been able to keep up with LiveJournal in a very, very long time.
I'm a couple of months behind on reading DW, too. (My DW reading list is very, very quiet, you understand, and heavily filtered to exclude things that will break me.)
The last couple of weeks I've been completely out of touch with pretty much everything and everyone who doesn't live in the same house I do.
This is because of my mental illness, which, recently, has included Fun Things like breaking down into seizures (probably psychogenic, have had a CT scan, am getting tested for epilepsy next week), and sundry things that have produced a vicious cycle in which the possibility that I will get sad can trigger an anxiety attack that triggers pretty much everything.
Still, we've managed a few days in a row without serious seizures, and the longer I go without them, the easier it can be to avoid them, because I don't have the acute headaches and mental fuzziness getting in my way so much.
So, things which have been going on lately:
- I've taken up painting, in watercolours and oils. I'm not very good but I'm not completely terrible. Somehow, despite the fact that I didn't do any sketching to speak of for many months, I didn't lose my skills at that. I do a lot of landscapes, too, partly because I have many lovely landscape photographs I took in Britain to work with.
- I took up playing EVE Online and do that really a lot, because I enjoy it lots. Part of that, I think, is that it's the least grind-based MMO I've ever seen; the EVE equivalent of XP is arguably skill points, and skill training happens constantly in the background. The capacity to Lose All Your Stuff is novel, but I'm reasonably careful, and I don't fly ships I can't afford to replace.
- Yesterday Dean and I went to the Gluten Free Food Expo. It was nifty. You get a bag of flyers and stuff at entry; sadly, the juice freeze things they contained went straight into the bin, as they were flavours that did not work for us. Mango and Coconut or Guava and Coconut; Dean doesn't do mango or guava juice and Sami is deathly allergic to coconut, so very much a Not So Much there. But we tried many other delicious foods and got a tasty lunch there and stuff.
We also got useful intel; a local Coles does not stock a product that we wish it did, and we found out from the Coles reps there that it's totally supposed to, so we have leverage now to bitch at the manager.
- As I may have mentioned, we got FF13. No spoilers, please; Dean and I are playing it together, which means our progress is limited to when we're both able to play. (Current setup for this is that Dean drives; I am in charging of periodically looking things up online, watching numbers, making suggestions, etc. Meanwhile I also play EVE and do other stuff, because I am a compulsive multitasker. At some point I'll also play a separate game myself where I press butans, but I have solemnly promised not to get ahead of our shared game.)
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