What’s going on with me lately

[stormkeeper_lovedoris]

- Lately looking at the computer screen has really been making my eyes sore. Not good since I basically look at one all day at work.

- I’ve also been re-reading my looong X-men fanfic and really getting into X-men, especially the Northstar/Iceman pairing. However, reading this fic after work is not helping my eyes much.

- So I have fallen behind on my emails to people. Sorry. I will try to rest my eyes and catch up.

- I am thrilled to see a pretty active Northstar/Iceman following on LJ though. There are sooo many fanfics I need to catch up on reading. I know it's silly but I think of myself as one of the first fanfic writers to pair these two up (I might be wrong on that, but still) and now there are LJ communities dedicated to them and lots of fanfic as well.

- Oddly, I’m not as into Spiderman as I was just a couple weeks ago. When I think of writing fanfic now, I think of writing more X-men again instead of Spiderman. Weird.

- The X-men fic I want to write is basically a re-write of my long X-men trilogy. I
want to do it, but what’d be the point? I feel that I should cover new ground, but then again I do have some cool ideas for my re-write so it might be worth it.

- One sad thing is that I haven’t been reading much lately, other than fanfic. Normally I’m in the middle of 2 or 3 books at a time. I put 2 library books aside that weren’t hooking me and am slowly reading a really boring book that I bought, and nothing else now for days. That’s unusual for me. I guess it’s mostly because my eyes are sore, I don’t have much free time, and I’m reading X-men stuff now. I’m sure I will get back into reading again.

Comments

Monitor-fatigue continued :)

[loopeleigh.livejournal.com]

(it seems to be my day of long cmments :) )

Last, but not least, try doing eye exercises. One of the reason that your eyes get sore is because you are staring at the same focal point all day. Its always about the same distance from you eyes, and you don’t shift your eyes over a large area. Our eyes weren’t meant to stare at one thing so long. Try this: Turn so you facing a relatively open area (doesn’t have to be big, just significantly bigger than the space between you and your PC). Pick a focal point far away from you, stare at it for about 5-10 seconds. Then pick one mid way. Stare. Pick one close to you. Stare. Really close to you stare. Look all the way to the right (don’t move head). Stare. Slowly move to all the way to the right in the same fashion (there should be 5 stare points in total from left to right). Repeat this over a few times. Speeding up a little (but not so fast that you don’t focus properly at each point). Mix it up a little too. Right, far forward, nose, mid left, , far left, etc, etc. The bigger the area you can scan, the better. Do this a few times a day. Being near a window helps a lot, cause you can just spend 5 minutes actively scanning/watching the outsides world and feel refreshed (my favourite is to count and classify cars – it helps me work through problems too. Lets my subconscious find the answer will I’m focusing on a menial task. Works for me somehow.).

And finally take breaks from the PC if eyes start feeling strained. Even if its just a walk to get a cup of coffee.

Hope these help. Cause I can feel your pain (literally, also had to much PC time today). It’s a big problem in my line of work we’re slaves to the PC (or Mac  ).

Re: Monitor-fatigue continued :)

[stormkpr.livejournal.com]

Thank you for all the great ideas! I'm going to give them a try and will let you know how it goes.