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Food, work, eye exam, ADHD
Aug. 22nd, 2020 07:43 pmPandemic life is... learning about weird food anxieties. After a lot of me asking if we could please order less in the way of groceries, or at least not have it all delivered so soon, please, we finally figured out that it stresses me out to have too much perishable food around and it stresses the bug out to have too little. We're working on compromises and on making smaller more frequent orders.
I worked super hard this week, midnight or later every night, almost entirely on other people's promotion writeups (while angrily slapping distractions out of the way, thus staying more caught up on email than you'd expect). It's fine; this is what I pre-emptively took vacation to prepare for, and I rather appreciate the complete clarity of prioritization. I still needed a long break on Friday night, and the bug and I watched The Shape of Water, so that's the interesting media of the week. I closed my eyes unhappily at the violence (I particularly dislike torture scenes) but liked the pro-tolerance themes. The weirdos do stick it to the man, at least enough to be satisfying, and there's some magical realism and a perky quirky heroine. And today I'm finally on to doing my own self-writeup, a much lower-stakes and fairly mechanical activity than working on promotion cases.
I went for an eye exam today and got the most adorable little optometrist. Unlike the dentist, at least for an eye exam I got to keep my mask on, and had bought KN95s in preparation. And I wanted to ask her out! So apparently, despite my focus on men in the last 2-3 years, I've still got some bi in me. That was nice, and partially made up for the feelings of covid-risk. *grin*
An amusing ADHD thing: independently and on their requests, I ended up running studies on both the bug and Norwood to see if they could tell ADHD drugs from placebos. Shan't tell you too much, but apparently (with these exact doses and humans) it's easier to tell Vyvanse from a placebo than it is to tell Ritalin from a placebo. I also learned this week that there are ADHD coaches, and executive function coaches, and this article about hiring one kind of fascinated me -- in particular, the idea of the client learning to feel the sensation of having her shit in order, and learning to slowly form a preference for that feeling. Like learning a preference for proper form in an exercise.
I worked super hard this week, midnight or later every night, almost entirely on other people's promotion writeups (while angrily slapping distractions out of the way, thus staying more caught up on email than you'd expect). It's fine; this is what I pre-emptively took vacation to prepare for, and I rather appreciate the complete clarity of prioritization. I still needed a long break on Friday night, and the bug and I watched The Shape of Water, so that's the interesting media of the week. I closed my eyes unhappily at the violence (I particularly dislike torture scenes) but liked the pro-tolerance themes. The weirdos do stick it to the man, at least enough to be satisfying, and there's some magical realism and a perky quirky heroine. And today I'm finally on to doing my own self-writeup, a much lower-stakes and fairly mechanical activity than working on promotion cases.
I went for an eye exam today and got the most adorable little optometrist. Unlike the dentist, at least for an eye exam I got to keep my mask on, and had bought KN95s in preparation. And I wanted to ask her out! So apparently, despite my focus on men in the last 2-3 years, I've still got some bi in me. That was nice, and partially made up for the feelings of covid-risk. *grin*
An amusing ADHD thing: independently and on their requests, I ended up running studies on both the bug and Norwood to see if they could tell ADHD drugs from placebos. Shan't tell you too much, but apparently (with these exact doses and humans) it's easier to tell Vyvanse from a placebo than it is to tell Ritalin from a placebo. I also learned this week that there are ADHD coaches, and executive function coaches, and this article about hiring one kind of fascinated me -- in particular, the idea of the client learning to feel the sensation of having her shit in order, and learning to slowly form a preference for that feeling. Like learning a preference for proper form in an exercise.
