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eilonwy

Things that Currently Make Me Cranky

Jan 18, 2010 21:16

1. My eyes. I saw the eye doctor over break, and he assures me that in general my eyes are fine. However, when they get really tired (and I'm beginning to suggest that it involves stress, too) they don't want to focus properly. (When he tested me, for the first time ever, I had trouble making the dots line up. My muscles want to not line up-- I ( Read more... )

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angevin2 January 19 2010, 04:33:25 UTC

On the other, I'd really like it if just one or two agreed with me.

Andrew Gurr, surely?

eilonwy January 19 2010, 05:02:01 UTC

Absolutely, yes. But there has been, it seems to me, a real backlash against him (other than by *most* of the scholars who attend, say, the Blackfriars Conference, what with this most recent one being in his honor. But not even that entirely, given that Jeremy Lopez was there.) Andy Gurr seems to have become the target.

rubrchick January 19 2010, 04:54:58 UTC

4. As You Like It at the Old Vic. Okay, there's nothing inherently wrong with that. But it's going to open two weeks after I leave London.

There has to be a way for you to sneak in to see their rehearsals or their tech or their previews or whatever it is they do to shows 2 weeks before they open in England. Can you cry, "Scholar! Let me in!" at them and have any hope? Know anyone who knows anyone who's involved? I hate missing shows. It makes me cranky, too.

eilonwy January 19 2010, 05:00:48 UTC

I certainly don't know anyone there, and I don't know *of* anyone who knows anyone, if that makes sense. (Plus, since it's a production that will have been going on since this month, just in various places, would they really be in rehearsal/preview that early? I honestly don't know.) But I shall keep my ears and eyes open, just in case. 'Cause yeah, dammit, Shakespeare scholar! Let me in!

alryssa January 19 2010, 05:26:05 UTC

Eye pressure is pretty sensitive to stress. I went through a hellacious time a couple of years ago that induced some horrid eye pain. So laying the blame at stress' feet seems entirely apropos. I hope it clears up for you soon.

I am (extremely slowly) working my way through the Bard's works. I entirely blame Slings & Arrows for that-- the last play I read was Antony and Cleopatra.

I will now be thinking of hot naked guys swinging in on ropes.

eilonwy January 20 2010, 05:13:52 UTC

Mmm, I love Antony & Cleopatra (but I hate Julius Caesar.) I wrote about A&C in the article that appeared in Shakespeare Bulletin last quarter. :)

Yes, let's blame stress. Damn stress. It can be summertime now?

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eilonwy January 20 2010, 05:14:41 UTC

I told one of my profs today about the blurred vision/inability to focus. He said that when he took his comps, his eyes dried out from too much reading and he had to use eye drops constantly, so clearly I'm on the right track. And that if my eyes start bleeding, I'll get an A+.

Re: eyes xayide January 19 2010, 14:27:21 UTC

I totally know that feeling, and it sucks. I remember trying to take notes in class and being unsure which of the two lines in my notebook I was supposed to use to keep my writing straight, and seeing everything I wrote double. You have my full sympathies, it really makes studying much more difficult. Maybe try taking short naps when it gets really bad, since you're definitely not working efficiently when you can't read properly. *HUGS*

Re: eyes xayide January 19 2010, 14:30:50 UTC

Also, when are your comps, exactly? So I can think positive thoughts at you and all?

Re: eyes eilonwy January 20 2010, 05:12:53 UTC

Thursday at 2:30pm AZ time.
ARRRRGGGG. That's less than 48 hours away.