urgh eyes hurty

So for the last few days my eyes have been a bit sore. I figured I could put this down to not enough sleep. Then on Friday I had a nap of about an hour and woke up with the usual sore eyes and then met up with Alex to go meet people in the city. On the way back from the ATM I think ash or something entered my left eye because I felt *something* and then I was busy going "ow ow ow stupid eye ow" and it was watering like crazy. And then we met up with Ali, Ling Wei and Hein and went inside to see Breach*. My eye behaved itself. Then outside, waiting for Spiderman 3** to start, I made the mistake of touching my left eye again (probably it felt slightly itchy or whatever) and went back to sitting there with my eyes shut while it watered and I waited for the pain to subside, explaining to my friends that no I'm not falling asleep, there's something wrong with my eye, I think it'll be fine as long as I don't touch it.
Anyway, the left eye was fine the next day. The right was still sore though. And it's still quite sore now despite having gotten plenty of sleep. Maybe I should see a doctor? Although I do have a bad habit of ignoring anything my body does that isn't incpacitating, and this does fall under that category.


*It was a damn good movie. Tells the story of how they caught Robert Hannsen, the worst spy in the history of the US. The movie was believable and tense, the acting was very good, and virtually no unnecessary bullshit
** This was a terrible movie. Honestly, I should have just gone home and enjoyed a couple more hours of sleep rather than sit through this piece of crap. Tobey Maguire can't act. The plot and characterisation was terrible. There was overly dramatic soundtrack telling us what we were supposed to be feeling at any moment and pointing out that ZOMG this person is a villain! The Sandman didn't even make sense. Dark Spidey is hilariously bad: The first time he does something *dark* he's walking in an alleyway afterwards and sees himself in a mirror, looking slightly dishevelled but otherwise fine. He stops, and rearranges his hair into the classic emo style, fringe falling over one half of his face. I wanted to do the same so that my eyes were covered and I didn't have the see the rest of this travesty of a movie.

argh

I lay down at 8pm, intending to have a short nap just before work. Opened my eyes some time later to find it was 3am. Basically I missed most of my shift and the rest wasn't enough to make it worthwhile :( Man I feel so bad, this is the first time I've missed a shift without any notice.

*sigh* on the other hand, my eyes feel somewhat better, and I can spend the whole day concentrating on Softcons since I'm not ready to fall into bed

another videogame dream

I love it when I dream about being in computer games. Normally when I have a dream that I can remember it's being thrown into the middle of a scene where people who don't even know eachother in real life are sitting down to have coffee or whatever and stuff happens and none of it's really comprehensible but in the dream it makes perfect sense damnit. And then I wake up and most of it fades within an hour or two because there's really no sense there to hang my memory on.
But when I dream about playing/being part of a computer game it's awesome because my brain seems to have a slightly different mechanism for these dreams. The focus is usually less on people and more on events, and as a whole they usually make more sense, as if my subconscious had actually found a plot rather than throwing together a bunch of random associations from my memory. And since it's taking place inside a framework that I'm familiar with and one with logical rules, when I wake up I can spend that hour or two trying to reconstruct the rules for this hypothetical game and considering whether I would enjoy playing said game. Some of them seem as though one day I could get around to making them, although ironically the one time I woke up from a dream about a game so awesome that I found myself disappointed that it didn't exist, I realised that this was one of the few game dreams I'd had where the game would be impossible to make.

Anyway, todays offering from my subconscious featured the following (major features that I remember):
* The atmosphere and levels were reminiscent of Diablo or maybe Quake, with a definite sense of descending into the depths of Hell, and the colours red and black dominating. Each new level was deeper. I can only assume that the aim of the game is to reach the lowest level and take on Satan/Diablo
* Gameplay style was first person shooter. Players split up into teams and compete against other teams in clearing the level.
* Enemies are all flyers
* Weapons are mostly of the heavy variety. I have a distinct memory of some kind of gatling platform thing happening, and a vaguer memory of shotgun.
* New equipment and restocking and stuff happened via vending machines that were scattered around the level. Yes, I know this doesn't make sense when you're descending into the pits of Hell, but I'm just the reporter for this