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Returning home
Aug. 3rd, 2018 10:04 amWe're home from traveling! It is definitely more stressful to be home than to travel. When I travel, the most I will have to do is pack up my stuff and stand around while one of my companions gets us transportation to where we need to go. I may go for a long walk or buy groceries. I may just sit on the couch all day reading. At home, I have a ton of things to do. Yeah, they are the normal things that I always do, like grocery shopping, seeing doctors, working on creative projects, organizing visiting friends, but they still cause a lot more anxiety than sitting on the couch reading. Of course, I could sit on the bed and read, but I like doing these things. They just are stressful.
The day before yesterday, I contacted family to fine tune our plans for visiting and worked on setting up an appointment with my new psychologist. I found a place that sells a kind of low-dosage DHEA pill but decided that I'm not ready to start taking it yet, as I'm pretty out of control from jet lag and poor sleeping.
Yesterday, I contacted my tai chi instructor to find out when lessons will be and the administrator of the Russian language program at the university to get the ball rolling on a new contract for our next round of classes. I also did an interview with a DC reporter who is doing a long series (TV news) on mefloquine.
This morning, I tried to set up my mom's old iPhone, so that I can talk to my new psychologist with Facetime. It turns out that Facetime requires working cell service to start working (after that, you don't need it). My mom's cell service doesn't work here. I tried for an hour to figure out how to install Mac OS emulation on my PC, so that I could run Facetime on my computer. It all looked sketchy as fuck, and I finally gave up. Then, I went back to trying to debug mom's phone. A site mentioned that you could just swap in a working SIM card, but I thought that American phones didn't use SIM cards in the same way as European ones. Turns out, once I got the case off and looked at the phone, that I was wrong. Mom's old iPhone has the same kind of SIM card slot that mine does (it requires a long pointy thing to open), so I pulled out the little thing that I use to open my SIM card slot, popped out mom's SIM, put in mine, and Facetime was soon up and running.
There are a zillion things I need to do today, but I'm glad that I'm moving toward getting things all set up with my new psychologist. Also, I'm so glad that TV interview is done. UGH!
In less serious news, I'm playing Final Fantasy XIII. While I love the graphics and enjoy the stories in the FF games I've played, the moody fussing, the pointless bickering and pouting, and the general lack of any emotional maturity on the part of the characters is incredibly annoying. Why would anyone ask, "Why me?", in this situation? Because you just attacked some all-powerful entity after purposely heading into its lair when you knew exactly what that entailed, you idiot! I will finish this game and play one other FF game that I have bought. If that one also is full of pouting and whining, I will stop playing them. When I've gotten through all the stuff that needs to be done in the aftermath of the trip, I'll go back to Witcher 3. Right now, it is too stressful.
The day before yesterday, I contacted family to fine tune our plans for visiting and worked on setting up an appointment with my new psychologist. I found a place that sells a kind of low-dosage DHEA pill but decided that I'm not ready to start taking it yet, as I'm pretty out of control from jet lag and poor sleeping.
Yesterday, I contacted my tai chi instructor to find out when lessons will be and the administrator of the Russian language program at the university to get the ball rolling on a new contract for our next round of classes. I also did an interview with a DC reporter who is doing a long series (TV news) on mefloquine.
This morning, I tried to set up my mom's old iPhone, so that I can talk to my new psychologist with Facetime. It turns out that Facetime requires working cell service to start working (after that, you don't need it). My mom's cell service doesn't work here. I tried for an hour to figure out how to install Mac OS emulation on my PC, so that I could run Facetime on my computer. It all looked sketchy as fuck, and I finally gave up. Then, I went back to trying to debug mom's phone. A site mentioned that you could just swap in a working SIM card, but I thought that American phones didn't use SIM cards in the same way as European ones. Turns out, once I got the case off and looked at the phone, that I was wrong. Mom's old iPhone has the same kind of SIM card slot that mine does (it requires a long pointy thing to open), so I pulled out the little thing that I use to open my SIM card slot, popped out mom's SIM, put in mine, and Facetime was soon up and running.
There are a zillion things I need to do today, but I'm glad that I'm moving toward getting things all set up with my new psychologist. Also, I'm so glad that TV interview is done. UGH!
In less serious news, I'm playing Final Fantasy XIII. While I love the graphics and enjoy the stories in the FF games I've played, the moody fussing, the pointless bickering and pouting, and the general lack of any emotional maturity on the part of the characters is incredibly annoying. Why would anyone ask, "Why me?", in this situation? Because you just attacked some all-powerful entity after purposely heading into its lair when you knew exactly what that entailed, you idiot! I will finish this game and play one other FF game that I have bought. If that one also is full of pouting and whining, I will stop playing them. When I've gotten through all the stuff that needs to be done in the aftermath of the trip, I'll go back to Witcher 3. Right now, it is too stressful.
