So I’ve been taking the Strattera for a while. About a month I guess? And writing is doing well and my anxiety seems to be manageable (I mean I went to AwesomeCon and wandered around all day in a building full of strangers and didn’t freak out — more about that later). Any other ADHD type things — like my ability to stack things into greater and more perilous stacks — remains unaffected. And many things remain lost.
I also can’t take it during the daytime. I started that way and almost immediately I was a little too calm. It was really hard to stay awake and I thought it was the adjustment period. So I took it at night and things seem to be going pretty good, so I tried taking it during the day to see if the sleepiness was just while I was adjusting to it and … nope. Spent Thursday and Friday wandering around in a fog.
So I skipped the pill this morning and I’ll start taking it at night again and keep going. At least the anxiety being down is nice. Almost makes the intolerable mess a little more tolerable.
So anyhow, I went to AwesomeCon. I was only there on Saturday but I was there for the “Once We Were Spacemen” podcast record, which might’ve actually been better than the Sunday Firefly reunion, just for crowd volume. The podcast was already standing room only and pretty crowded. I can only imagine the full Firefly thing was a mob scene. It was also one of the first events of Sunday so I’m pretty sure the line for it started at about 6am. I know I would’ve been there that early.
I didn’t talk to anyone except a couple of people working at the venue, when I was buying snacks. Not anyone famous or fame adjacent. I also didn’t talk to Farnsworth a lot because while I was there with him, he was off with Farnsworth Jr getting photos and autographs with famous people.
I did get some really silly Steampunk goggles. I sit around the house wearing them perched on top of my head. Twice I have thought about finding out if I can get actual lenses made for them, but the reality is they’re not actually big enough for my prescription. But I bet I could get them turned into reading glasses!
I won’t. I’m silly, but I’m also insanely cheap and don’t like spending money.
So that’s the story of how I was in the same building in the same room as Nathan Fillion and Alan Tudyk and accomplished nothing.