CarrionCrow: With you working so hard for months straight, your brain trying to shut down a bit seems reasonable.
Try to shove a break or two in when you can so you don't burn out.
Also, please try to avoid becoming violently ill at festivals. =)
Did you ever figure out what was happening with your ear?
Yep, I know why it's happening, there's just not much I can do about it. I have no real choice but to bear with it. There's nothing I can delay right now or it'll have serious consequences. So I'll just have to stick with it until late June and hope I don't run myself ragged before that. :P
I'll try, but no promises. :P
Yes, I did. It's another tale of the variety 'I really cannot believe my own body sometimes'. Apparently, my hearing is
too good. This makes it so that my ears try to clamp down on loud sounds so I don't go crazy. The condition is aggravated by noise (hello classroom full of thirty teenagers) and stress (hello thesis). By pulling a certain muscle my ears are trying to prevent loud noises from getting in, and that's what's causing the weird sensation/sound. It's not serious, since there's no damage to my ear, but it is annoying. The ENT doctor told me I should either relax (not an option right now) or wait for my ears to get used to lots of noise.