Strange phosphenes: Pressure on the eyeballs normally produces ripples of dark and light, often in expanding squares, in my experience. But today as I pressed a towel to my face I saw many perfectly round dots of red, yellow and dark blue drifting up at about two o’clock, with bigger stationary blue dots. Perhaps that is what the Matrix really looks like; it’s more plausible than a green cascade of backward Japanese characters.
In completely unrelated news — I’m looking around at temporary employment agencies’ websites, and find one that apparently has no jobs, only “careers”. I haven’t sought a “career” since 1987; how about something to pay the damn rent?