Bureaucracy, mostly.
Today, I applied for the Arizona state healthcare program. This involved twisting my brain through paperworkish contortions to the extent that doing my taxes afterwards was actually a relief. Among other issues, the income and cost of living tests are unable to cope with intervals longer than a month, which doesn't exactly work out well with my student aid and major expenses both happening per-semester. It's like they expect students to not be poor or something.
So. AHCCCS, then taxes, then my half of the FAFSA. It is safe to call me brainfried. And yet.. I've spent most of the past ten minutes watching the reflection of the microwave window grating distort over the display and buttons' wavy plastic. And I think I've found a birefringence effect in the way that light passed through the window goes from red, to green, to gold.
It doesn't make me any less mentally fatigued. But it does remind me of why I love my brain and its lack of filters for "extraneous" information.
So. AHCCCS, then taxes, then my half of the FAFSA. It is safe to call me brainfried. And yet.. I've spent most of the past ten minutes watching the reflection of the microwave window grating distort over the display and buttons' wavy plastic. And I think I've found a birefringence effect in the way that light passed through the window goes from red, to green, to gold.
It doesn't make me any less mentally fatigued. But it does remind me of why I love my brain and its lack of filters for "extraneous" information.