Long weekend
Sep. 8th, 2020 09:34 pmI also basically used this long weekend to get personal shit in order, and here is some random stuff that sounds a lot like "having a life" if we squint:
Then I was sad a lot, which we can skip, and then Tuesday I got pictures taken of my retinas. This was at a different office of my eye care company and I got a different adorable optometrist who I wanted to ask out, which was weird. Apparently that's a thing now. My optic nerve and associated blood vessels look great, and I have just minor "latticing", basically stretching/thinning, of the vitreous in one part of each eyeball where it's most expected. Over the next 20 years I can expect the vitreous to thin, stretch and detach further from the retina; sounds horrid, but apparently it's no big deal unless it pulls on the retina in the process and hurts it. For now my latticing is actually smaller/less than it was the last time they looked, so my little blue eyes are okay.
- Used Friday to write back to personal emails that had been languishing, follow up on stuff I promised I'd send people, and take a drawerful of stuff to the Goodwill. Also some cooking, including a recipe I picked up from
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triesticity. - Watched i'm thinking of ending things, with the bug, which I think is sort of this year's Memento -- right after watching, one goes immediately into theories about what the hell just happened, and thence to reviews to see if one was correct. (There is such a thing as correct -- it's based on a book that makes things more clear.)
- Two outdoor social excursions.
- Finished that last stubborn level of Snakebird, so VICTORY IS MINE! Until certain things are over at work, I'm going back to little puzzle games that don't really have a story arc or important "done" point.
- I took such a great extra backbend class on Friday. The teacher talked about releasing different sections of the spine separately, deliberately, and it was illuminating and also tied right into what I know from handstands. We did some very deliberate moving of the bend from lower to upper back, with conscious clamping/unclamping of the relevant front-of-body muscles that stop a backbend in different places. I had previously been annoyed with this teacher for not focusing on the upper back enough, but all is now forgiven! He also -- weeks ago but I forgot to ever mention -- got me into a hip flexor stretch that felt different from any hip flexor stretch before. It's very possible that I'm isolating them for, you know, the first time in my life. Anyway, that was my best "level 2" class yet, because of that new info; and also when it was time to get fancy we did handstandy things that were in my competence zone.
Then I was sad a lot, which we can skip, and then Tuesday I got pictures taken of my retinas. This was at a different office of my eye care company and I got a different adorable optometrist who I wanted to ask out, which was weird. Apparently that's a thing now. My optic nerve and associated blood vessels look great, and I have just minor "latticing", basically stretching/thinning, of the vitreous in one part of each eyeball where it's most expected. Over the next 20 years I can expect the vitreous to thin, stretch and detach further from the retina; sounds horrid, but apparently it's no big deal unless it pulls on the retina in the process and hurts it. For now my latticing is actually smaller/less than it was the last time they looked, so my little blue eyes are okay.
