Like Dislodging Earwax
- The Archivist
- Mar 5
- 4 min read
Imagine this scenario: you wake up one morning to some clogging in your ears, either because of sinus issues or allergies, doesn't matter. This isn't your first rodeo with the muffled unpleasantness, but you usually get by just fine. Why dedicate a troublesome amount of time to soften the wax and rinse the problematic ear?
Except for that morning. That morning you decide enough is enough and take action, counting the droplets of Debrox® dripping into your ear, eager to use the little water syringe to finally remove all that gunk. The package, however, says it may take up to 4 days of using the product 2x a day to see results, but you're impatient and would rather work on other tasks than lay on your side for the vaguely worded "several minutes" required for the solution to work its magic, so you try to rush the process by using the syringe too early or using cotton swabs (but only as far as your pinky can go, promise!) to no avail.
Instant gratification eludes you, and so, even though you thrash against the idea of doing so, you follow the instructions like a good little adult, apply the product for the 4 days, and oh holy mother of pearl how can one ear accumulate that much wax?! You use the water syringe again and again, watching the dislodged ear wax spiral down the drain until there's a sudden pop, and hallelujah you cry tears of joy for you can hear the very angels themselves singing their prai--no wait, that's just the cat yowling at you to get out of the bathroom and feed them, never mind.
You can tell the sort of fun I had this past week with allergy season upon us, but that's not the point of the story!
That sudden feeling of clarity for the physical senses applies to the creative mind, too, I think, or at least both felt the same to me whenever I found the solution to my problem with Act 3 ofTeyr'loch Delter Pach. I don't want to go into too much detail because that would spoil it for my partner, and I'd rather like to keep this surprise close to the chest until it's time, but let's just say using a laser pointer to play with the cats gave me a, "Eureka!" moment...a day or so after the fact. Ah well, better late than never. It not only helped with the problem I was having with Arc 3 but also resolved a future problem of differentiating the second half of the performance from the first, since otherwise they would have felt very same-y.
To write out the Interlude though, which has expanded enough to be its own scene, I needed to find the piece or pieces of music that would help me visualize exactly what would happen. That was another issue, because my criteria was music using as close of a sound profile to singing bowls as possible, but if you go to YouTube or Spotify and type "singing bowls" into the search, well, you're just going to get, "8 hours of meditation music to cleanse your chakra!" as suggestions.
Yeah, not what I wanted. So, I had to get creative. I asked some friends for suggestions, and while many of them ran parallel to what I wanted, it wasn't quite right, but their suggestions gave me avenues to follow in terms of either composer or anime/game/etc... series. I exhausted those without much to show for it, however, and so I found myself back at square one. Video game soundtracks tended to touch most closely on the sort of sound I wanted. Nothing from the AAA titles, because they like to use full orchestras. So, I had to go the Indiegame route, which eventually led me to peruse my Steam list of games that I own but haven't played. "Hollow Knight," "Rain World," "Fe," both "Ori" games, etc...
As soon as I heard some of the music from "Fe" and "Rain World," I knew I'd found my selection. Double whammy win for this week~
Neither Arc 3 nor the Interlude are finished, not by a long shot, but at least I have the skeleton for both complete when before I couldn't manage even that much. Fingers crossed, knock on wood, collect 4-leaf clovers so that I might not hit such another block before the end. If I do, well, just like with the Debrox®, I need to be patient and give the block time to dislodge.
Other Notable Accomplishments:
Finished reading "Legends and Lattes" by Travis Baldree
BWS intermediate workouts are proceeding smoothly; moved up to 25 lbs for some of the exercises such as the Dumbbell Romanian Deadlift
C25K:
What's Left of Teyr'loch Delter Pach?
Act II
Arc 3: Future / Interlude
Fill out descriptions beyond just makeshift stage directions.
Act III
Arc 1: Past
Arc 2: Present
Arc 3: Future
Questions for Contemplation & Discussion:
If you think about the last time you overcame a rather persistent block, what feeling would you equate that to? After all, I'm sure not everyone has earwax problems.
What kind of "Eureka!" moments have you had? How did you reach them?
This Week's Obligatory Cat Pic: Mura
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