{every time I blink I have a tiny dream}

[kaberett]

Best realisation in the past 48 hours: I don't have to turn on the overhead lights in lab. There is plenty enough to work by just with the (flow/fume) hood lights on! I don't need the brilliant glaring overhead nonsense! I can be bathed in gentle quiet glow without SHOUTY CEILING LAMP. It is great. (Sensorily shouting, that is -- they don't make an obtrusive audio noise, they're just... very, in a white lab with white reflective surfaces and white floors and Everything is Clear or White.)

Relatedly, I have been pondering the validity of explaining sensory processing disorders/low thresholds for overstimulation along the lines of: okay, so, you know how hangovers make light and noise hurt? Even if they're not particularly bright or loud? NOW IMAGINE THAT DIM LIGHTS AND QUIET NOISES GAVE YOU HANGOVERS. (Which is aimed at a very particular target audience, obviously, and I Know Not Whereof I Speak having never been hungover, but.)

In other news, we have... maybe probably sort of almost bought the flat? Perhaps? The money is with our solicitors? I... don't even know.

Comments

[ironed_orchid]

That is a good analogy. I have been hungover, and I have some sensitivities that others seem not to have.

Hope the flat stuff happens soon.

[swingandswirl]

Yay flat! I hope it all goes smoothly.

And your analogy makes a lot of sense!

[feanelwa]

One of the FIB rooms at work has THE WORLD'S LOUDEST VACUUM PUMP for roughing. I can't do the delicate bits unless I do them in the dark with headphones and a warm hoodie covering my head. Nobody else appears to see this as a problem. The other FIB pops up every second move with a false alarm for one thing touching another, because another group keep ablating polymers inside it. This makes it actually impossible.

[sfred]

I think the hangover thing is a very helpful comparison.

Good luck with finalising flatbuying!

[davidgillon]

Yay flat*!!

* Well, almost, but money with the solicitors is pretty far down the track.