Baby Awesome
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gwynMuch as I hate hate hate clipping for a vid, it does have one small fun benefit from time to time -- you get to play spot the young actor/actor you didn't know before/new favorite actor in previous roles before you discovered him or her. I don't know how many people out there watch both Chuck and Mad Men (probably no one?), but I laughed out loud when I realized that Betty's zipless fuck in the bar in S2 is none other than Captain Awesome, Chuck's bro-in-law-to-be. For some reason even watching it "live" last season, I didn't make the connection when I saw that scene in Mad Men -- he really does look so 1962 in that, and yet so very modern in Chuck.
I've actually made some progress on the vid -- I have almost 2 minutes of a 3:44 song, which surprises the hell out of me considering I only just finished clipping. It's been very hard to start it, as well. I avoided both the vid and gardening all day today with makeshift to-dos around the house, to the point of absurdity. I just feel so pressured because the deadline is so close, and I don't create well under pressure. I'm the exact opposite of many of my previous vidding partners, who prefer to wait until the last possible moment. I'd rather just create things on my own schedule, but con vids become a whole different thing. Not to mention the pressure of making a premieres vid for VVC -- admit it, you feel the same thing when you're showing a vid in that show! It's fraught with tension, I tell you.
My vertigo returned a while ago, and I've been doing things off and on, hoping to fix it, but it came back in full force the other day and I vomited all morning. Then I had to take Dramamine, but I barfed that up, yet eventually kept one down, which made me sleepy, so I wobbled around the house all day and got nothing done. It was 90 degrees out anyway and me and the kitties were wilting in the heat (I told Christy yesterday that they looked like punctured balloons, little rubbery puddles all over the house), so I'm not sure what I'd have done even with being well. It made going to the gym extra tricky, but I did go back on Friday. Still not sure if the elliptical will prove dangerous. If you can't even reliably stand upright, should you get on a tall machine you don't know how to use?
What I hate most about vertigo, aside from the obvious room spinny vomiting thing, is that it completely saps your energy. Whether you take something with diphenhydramine or not, it totally drains you, and simple things like standing and bending become complex tasks that take an enormous amount of time and can't be done without difficulty (and here I'm comparing myself to the average Jane, not to, say, some of my friends who have disabilities or debilitating illnesses). A while ago I was climbing the very steep stairs in Balmer Hall at the UW when this student got behind me and was huffing and puffing about how slowly I climbed. He could have gone around me too. So I finally stopped and turned to him and said, "You might as well go around. I have vertigo and this will take some time." He glared and went around me. Dick. But that's the thing -- it's not something you can see or tell people about. It's not a real disability. It's just an inconvenience.
And now I'm going to go do my exercises to help it, and take some diphenhydramine, and probably not wake up till 11 tomorrow because of that.
I've actually made some progress on the vid -- I have almost 2 minutes of a 3:44 song, which surprises the hell out of me considering I only just finished clipping. It's been very hard to start it, as well. I avoided both the vid and gardening all day today with makeshift to-dos around the house, to the point of absurdity. I just feel so pressured because the deadline is so close, and I don't create well under pressure. I'm the exact opposite of many of my previous vidding partners, who prefer to wait until the last possible moment. I'd rather just create things on my own schedule, but con vids become a whole different thing. Not to mention the pressure of making a premieres vid for VVC -- admit it, you feel the same thing when you're showing a vid in that show! It's fraught with tension, I tell you.
My vertigo returned a while ago, and I've been doing things off and on, hoping to fix it, but it came back in full force the other day and I vomited all morning. Then I had to take Dramamine, but I barfed that up, yet eventually kept one down, which made me sleepy, so I wobbled around the house all day and got nothing done. It was 90 degrees out anyway and me and the kitties were wilting in the heat (I told Christy yesterday that they looked like punctured balloons, little rubbery puddles all over the house), so I'm not sure what I'd have done even with being well. It made going to the gym extra tricky, but I did go back on Friday. Still not sure if the elliptical will prove dangerous. If you can't even reliably stand upright, should you get on a tall machine you don't know how to use?
What I hate most about vertigo, aside from the obvious room spinny vomiting thing, is that it completely saps your energy. Whether you take something with diphenhydramine or not, it totally drains you, and simple things like standing and bending become complex tasks that take an enormous amount of time and can't be done without difficulty (and here I'm comparing myself to the average Jane, not to, say, some of my friends who have disabilities or debilitating illnesses). A while ago I was climbing the very steep stairs in Balmer Hall at the UW when this student got behind me and was huffing and puffing about how slowly I climbed. He could have gone around me too. So I finally stopped and turned to him and said, "You might as well go around. I have vertigo and this will take some time." He glared and went around me. Dick. But that's the thing -- it's not something you can see or tell people about. It's not a real disability. It's just an inconvenience.
And now I'm going to go do my exercises to help it, and take some diphenhydramine, and probably not wake up till 11 tomorrow because of that.
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Date: 2009-06-07 08:02 am (UTC)I got a very mild one a while ago but it went away.
Do they know what causes it? Is it something to do with otoliths?
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Date: 2009-06-07 04:27 pm (UTC)Fie on the clueless college boy, too. Someday he'll learn that the universe does not revolve around him and his immediate needs.
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Date: 2009-06-07 06:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-07 07:12 pm (UTC)Which is why I'll be watching Premieres from the overflow room this year (Hospitality). *g*
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Date: 2009-06-11 09:13 pm (UTC)