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egypturnashToday and yesterday have been weird. Thursday, I woke up with inexplicable ear pain. At first I thought it was wax buildup to the point where it became a plug rattling around in there (this happened once before when I was young), but after trying to dissolve it had no effect and my throat started to itch with phlegm dripping down it I have begun to think it's an ear infection. Ugh.
Oddly enough, I am quite chipper despite this - as long as the sun is out. When the clouds that have been plaguing Boston for most of this month cover the sky, my mood drops, but when the sun's out I'm really upbeat; despite the ear pain I've gotten a couple more pages of Absinthe pencilled (4 more until the first chapter's all pencilled!) and some work done in fits and starts on the Illustrator side too. I'm perky to the point that I'm noticing it; there was a time when something like this would've sunk me into doom and gloom and fear, but now, well, I'm gonna go see about it Monday one way or another if it hasn't cleared up, it's annoying but it's not making me miserable. My personality has changed somewhere over the past few years to a much sunnier base state.
To make things even stranger, the back of my head has decided that now is the time for me to experiment with polyphasic sleep. I'm not getting much in the way of lengthy sleep right now anyway, the reasoning seems to be; why not try taking advantage of this disruption to make a phase-change? Right now I'm just napping on schedule regularly, to get my brain used to the idea; once I'm done with this ear infection I'll probably try pushing into the full "uberman" schedule of 20-minute naps every six hours. Not having an all-week-long day job will make this a lot easier than it could be otherwise.
I dunno, the back of my head just tells me to do things sometimes, and every time I've listened it's turned out to be a pretty good idea.
Oddly enough, I am quite chipper despite this - as long as the sun is out. When the clouds that have been plaguing Boston for most of this month cover the sky, my mood drops, but when the sun's out I'm really upbeat; despite the ear pain I've gotten a couple more pages of Absinthe pencilled (4 more until the first chapter's all pencilled!) and some work done in fits and starts on the Illustrator side too. I'm perky to the point that I'm noticing it; there was a time when something like this would've sunk me into doom and gloom and fear, but now, well, I'm gonna go see about it Monday one way or another if it hasn't cleared up, it's annoying but it's not making me miserable. My personality has changed somewhere over the past few years to a much sunnier base state.
To make things even stranger, the back of my head has decided that now is the time for me to experiment with polyphasic sleep. I'm not getting much in the way of lengthy sleep right now anyway, the reasoning seems to be; why not try taking advantage of this disruption to make a phase-change? Right now I'm just napping on schedule regularly, to get my brain used to the idea; once I'm done with this ear infection I'll probably try pushing into the full "uberman" schedule of 20-minute naps every six hours. Not having an all-week-long day job will make this a lot easier than it could be otherwise.
I dunno, the back of my head just tells me to do things sometimes, and every time I've listened it's turned out to be a pretty good idea.
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Date: 2009-06-27 10:00 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2009-06-28 12:36 am (UTC)I just can't help but think that this was invented by a truck driver. ;D
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Date: 2009-06-27 10:43 pm (UTC)(The overcast springtime of Boston was one of the reasons I left. By the end of my fifth year there I was done with it, though my unstructured and screwed-up schedule certainly wasn't helping.)