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[proximoception]

I don't think my eyes are doing very well and I don't know what to do about it. I have more assigned reading for this term than I will ever have again, since next year and following I'll be taking just 2 or 3 classes a year--and can spend a couple of those on the 'how to be a grad student' courses I dodged this first year. Despite having nothing else to do during this past week's flu I was hardly able to read at all: finished Outer Dark, Wilbur's recent Corneille, a few chapters of the Hawthorne. This and maybe a couple hours of movies or tv a day, that's all. They just feel tired, tired and kind of faded. They sting, though I don't think much of it has been the pressure pain that's the great danger.

Should I start investing in audio? I've never had much patience with it.

The worst thing about my eye issues is how demoralizing they are--and how hard they make exercising, which leads to further demoralization. Maybe I should drop out and get a job in retail. (<-- extreme ex. of such demoralization)

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[agoraphiliac.livejournal.com]

How distressing. I'm sorry.
Can you make any use of your university's disability guidelines? Get some of that reading list cut down?
I know that doesn't do anything about the truly distressing things, the pain and the difficulty reading. But there's no reason you should suffer for a course syllabus. Maybe you'd even get some say in what gets dropped from your required reading.

[proximoception.livejournal.com]

The flu probably had some effect; I tend to get eye pressure when my ears are sealed up, especially, so maybe I'll be in much better shape ina few days. Otherwise I'll just figure out what I can get away with skimming, my time-honored method. It's just irritating to have to, and difficult with all these novels and long poems.