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I had the best dream last night. Jonathan Coulton came to my school and I showed him around. And that’s all I remember. But it must have been good because I woke up all happy thinking “best. dream. ever”. I do remember that I shook his hand and thanked him for making me smile during hard times.

I am still watching a lot of his live videos on youtube. They put me in a good mood. Those and Red Dwarf are the main providers of smiles at the moment. Along with the goats of course. No one can rival goats for smiles.

Other than that things are not so great. I am not seeing well at all. The world is a blur again. I watched Sweden-Denmark on the telly tonight. And by “watched” I mean listened to the commentary. I am back to not really being able to see the action. So it goes.

I also did some shopping. It goes okay as long as I’m buying the regular things. I have my set routines, the things I always buy. Altough it’s a lot fewer things since I stopped buying candy, cakes and soda. Hah. But still, I can find those things I need. Except when I need new things. It doesn’t help that the supermarket was redesigned at the beginning of the year. Everything in new places. Today I wanted blueberries but could not find them. I also wanted Heinz ketchup but could not find it. It’s not funny, wandering back and forth through the aisles, trying to recognise everything on the shelves. I know I could ask the staff, but then my social phobia kinda gets in the way of that. If it’s not one thing then it’s the other. But I’m lucky to have my dad, who is always keen on bringing me things. Always a big help. He will be going with me to the hospital on Monday too. Getting there shouldn’t be too hard, but when the tests are done my eyesight will be even worse because of the eyedrops. And even worse than horrible is pretty bad, I’m sure you will agree. So it’ll be good to have someone to get me home. And then we’ll see if the tests will do anything. I shouldn’t get my hopes up too much. We’ll see. Hopefully.

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Not much new. Inching towards the hospital appointment on Monday. Trying to stay afloat.

Yesterday I got a sudden craving for books. For reading again. The escapism of it all. So I went and downloaded an audio book. Everyman by Phillip Roth. It was the first one on the list that seemed interesting. Award winning SF. I like SF. And I like awards. So why not. I wonder how it will go. I have started listening to it, and it’s good so far. But I find it hard to concentrate. My thoughts start to wander and I forget to pay attention. Maybe I just have to get used to it. It didn’t help that I was tired and half dozing off. But I will keep at it and hopefully get used to it. And escape reality for a while or two.

I haven’t tried the big-type books for people with poor eyesight, but I have a feeling that even if I’m able to read them then I would have a hard time getting used to them too. I can’t stand to read anything for very long, my head starts hurting and my eyes get tired very quickly. Lines of text are jumpy and it’s like my right eye is a little out of sync. Like I’m going cross-eyed. On one eye. I keep seeing double almost, and then when I realize it I have to focus. So that’s all fun and games. I should donate my eyes to medical science. They’d have a field day with them.

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4 Responses to “Everyplume”

1. Debster Says:
June 6th, 2009 at 0:09

Maybe listen to your audio book when you’re on the exercise bike? Or listen for awhile, then ride the bike, then listen for awhile.

Sounds like you just need to break it up in smaller listening times (at least till you get used to it).

Think how hard it must be for little children during story hour! We had a teacher in 4th grade who read “Little House on the Prairie” books to us after lunch and recess.

I just finished a SF book by China Mieville called: Perdido Street Station. I get in the mood for sci fi occasionally. I think I had trouble sleeping one night after reading in the evening. Not really nightmares, but I must have been dreaming a lot. It was pretty good.

Guess what? We finally had a female hummingbird come to our new feeder. She is soooo tiny and sweet. I was able to get within 6 or 7 feet of her while she was drinking nectar. She was beautiful.

I wonder if “Zip” and “Squeak” the hummingbird couple are over to Bentonsport where we worked all last summer? One was very fast flying and the other one made squeaking noises all the time.
2. Plume Says:
June 6th, 2009 at 21:15

Debster – Don’t know if I could concentrate while exercising either. But might be worth a try yet.
How do you tell if a hummingbird is male or female? I have never seen one. Do we have them in Denmark? I’d think so. Maybe. Wait here, I’ll go look!
3. hanne Says:
June 7th, 2009 at 11:46

theres also special audio books.. called daisy-rom.. you need a daisy-rom player for it but those have more options like going trough chapters and choosing the speeds you d like
besides that it possible to get almost every regular book on daisy-rom (at least in NL it is)
thought i d share that with you.

hope youre doing ok!
4. Plume Says:
June 7th, 2009 at 19:18

hanne – Ah I’ve never heard of those. I’ll see if that might be something for me.
Sorry I haven’t been on msn, just harder to use the computer now.