I slept in this morning a little bit and then ate a donut. Not a bad
way to start a Sunday, or any day. The rest of my day was spent
watching Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee and playing video
games because I didn't have anything on the school agenda. I played
Shoppe Keep, Geometry Wars, Castaway Paradise,
Pixel Piracy, Tera, and This War of Mine. I
think that's everything. I was obviously in the mood to play games
but couldn't quite figure out what I wanted to play. I think I also
felt bad about not doing other things, even though I didn't have
anything else to do. For the most part I wanted something mindless
because I was watching videos, and I found out that Pixel Piracy
is not that. I thought it would be a fairly simple game but I was
immediately overwhelmed with menu options, learning that I could
upgrade each of my crew members. Then I set sail for my first island
and almost immediately my two crew members and myself were killed by
a pack of dogs. Game over. So I moved on to other things. I put
two hours into Castaway Paradise, which is basically an Animal
Crossing clone on PC. I'm a fan of Animal Crossing and it
is nice to play a similar game on the computer. I could have easily
sunk more time into it but I stopped so I could run on the elliptical
before dinner.
My mom and sister went out shopping today and got me some fabric and
a pin cushion. One of the fabric bundles consists of strips of
fabric and my sister thought I could make bookmarks out of them. I
think that is a really cool idea and definitely something I want to
try. I should have done it today but maybe I'll have time this week.
We are supposed to get a bunch of snow, and after the last failed
snow day, maybe we'll get one this time.
Right as I was sitting down to eat my eyes went all weird. It was
like I had been blinded by a flash but didn't have the dark spot when
I blinked, I just had trouble seeing things. My sister was texting
me and it was a real struggle trying to read the words. I had to
stare at them and eventually could kind of make them out in my
peripheral vision. I think the same thing has happened a couple
times before but that was usually white light encroaching from my
peripheral vision, not so much a partial blindness in the center of
my vision. And it wasn't so much blindness, because I could still
“see” everything, I just couldn't really focus on it or tell what
it was. It's hard to describe. After quite some time it slowly
cleared out of my right eye and eventually seemed to slide over to
the peripheral vision in my left eye, and grow in intensity, before
it finally went away, leaving me with a headache. It was strange. I
wondered if it was maybe like a motion aftereffect from playing video
games, although a delayed one. Or maybe it was from running fairly
fast on the elliptical and then taking a hot shower. Or from staring
at a computer screen all day with the motion of various video games.
I just hope it was a fluke thing and not a precursor to something
else. My mom said she experienced something similar before being
diagnosed with cataracts. So fingers crossed it's not that.
Tonight my professor posted the readings for this week. She was a
little delayed because sometime last week her mother was in a car
accident and was put in the ICU. During my summer classes one of my
professors was hit by a drunk driver on his way to work one morning.
Car accidents seem to be a trend, an unsettling one. When I finish
this I think I'll find the articles for this week and download them
so I don't have that time wasting excuse tomorrow. Then maybe
tomorrow night I can get all the articles read. I can't remember how
many there are so that might not be a thing that happens. The
professor is also supposed to post the chapter tomorrow, so I might
read that. Even though I wasn't able to do any reading today I did
post a couple times to the discussion threads, so I should be getting
full points on those for this week.
My mom and sister went out shopping today and got me some fabric and
a pin cushion. One of the fabric bundles consists of strips of
fabric and my sister thought I could make bookmarks out of them. I
think that is a really cool idea and definitely something I want to
try. I should have done it today but maybe I'll have time this week.
We are supposed to get a bunch of snow, and after the last failed
snow day, maybe we'll get one this time.
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