well, not now that the rain is gone (it's not, in fact it's still pouring outside and the weatherbug radar has the entire county covered in a solid block of red), but now that i have finally given in and gotten contacts. you know, those things i said i would never get (i am highly disturbed by the notion of placing anything on my eyeball, especially my own fingers and not excepting small bendy pieces of plastic). however, after years of mocking me for my inability to join the ranks of the corrective lens wearing masses, my own mother issued me an ultimatum - she wasn't going to pay for my second prom dress if i was determined to "ruin the effect of everything" by wearing glasses. and so, to the eye doctor i went.
i am now on day two of this whole adjustment period business - specifically, i'm almost out of hour 2 of 4 for the day. so far, i've been convinced that i was going to go blind - in reality, i put the left lens in inside out, dripped lens solution into my eye because i couldn't find eye drops and my eyes are so dry it felt like the sahara had moved to my eye socket, and put my finger on the lens seven times and moved it around just because it looked so weird.
and in the midst of all this excitement, i decided i'm going to blog my way through this experience. i've been neglecting this thing in the name of homework (the gods of gpantheon will not be denied), so i might as well get back in the hang of things.
also, last night, i stayed up til 3 doing a project on fallacies for lang. here's the customer testimonial, i think you'll enjoy it.
what's playing on my ipod right now? c'etait salement romantique by coeur du pirate they're really good, and i'm trying to listen to more french music because a. the language is gorgeous and b. i have a test on monday that is supposedly
ridiculously difficile, so it wouldn't hurt to prepare
what am i reading? the killer angels by michael shaara. actually, it's a reread (and for a reason - it's one of the best books i've ever read, and one of the few war books that i'll read for the battle descriptions and logistical information as much as the characters). i just finished incantation by alice hoffman. it was gorgeous and painful, just like all of her novels. i wish i had her flair for prose; everything she writes, every detail, every choice of syntax and scene, just flows. it's a little magical, to tell the truth. and more importantly, her writing has...oomph. it hurts, in just the right way. if you haven't read her books, start - practical magic is probably my favorite, but any of them will do.
and it wouldn't be right if i didn't end with the usual pretty piccy from flickr. this one's called, appropriately, let there be light. isn't it gorgeous?
1 comments:
CONGRATS! But for the next few times I see you, i'm going to be all "YOU LOOK FUNNY". Of course, tomorrow I am only allowed to say you're pretty b/c it's prom. I need to teach you the taco test to make sure ur contact's not inside out. It helped me when I was starting out. Now I can tell just by looking. Oh, and I understand enough French to know that the song is "Something something romantic" and the band is Heart of the Pirate? Pirate heart? Also, I re-beat Shadow of the Colossus today, and had to watch yet again as my poor horsey fell off the cliff and into the river and the main character get crossbow'd in the thigh and then stabbed in the chest, turned into a monster, and be reborn as a baby with horns. The horse did come back, but he can't use one leg and the girl that I was trying to bring back from the dead came back alive, but now she's stuck in the forbidden land cuz the bridge kaboomed, but the guys that shot/killed the kid got away. Pretty depressing, although girl, baby, and horse went to a pretty garden somewhere in the temple where there were deer.
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