Optical Confusion!

I know I've been AWOL lately - teacher's college is a truly busy place, so it's not easy to just up n' blog when I want...plus, its been a turbulent month so forgive me for not writing, its been 2 weeks and a day since my last blog...errr, skip that last part.

Anyhow, a true miracle of miracles happened tod..yesterday. Anyone who knows me well knows I'm a glasses-wearer, in fact I have been since age 8 or 9 - started young!

Anyhow, I swore I would never, ever wear contact lenses, as I have a severe phobia/paranoia about the touching of eyes - especially my own. In any event, I went shopping for a new pair of prescription sunglasses - as mine have broken - and lo and behold, the optometrist suggests going for contacts - and lemme just say this guy's a smooth talker - either that or the fact that I hadn't eaten all day was a huge contributer - 'cause the next thing I know I'm in his office chair, head tilted back and he's inserting "tester" contacts.

So there I am - less blind than normal - and I feel these annoying lil' water-based-gel-infused lenses rubbing the shite outta my nerve endings - something I'll told will last for 4 hours and then never happen again, not because they get used to it - but b/c it "dulls" the nerve endings! Oh joy!

Then, as I'm checkin' myself out sans glasses, I realize and think to myself "Shit!! How am I gonna get these out??"

So I guess I psyched myself out, b/c it took no word of a lie - 30 mins for him to remove them - b/c I kept shutting my eyes out of that very fear/discomfort aforementioned.

And to think, I'm debating the plusses of laser-eye surgery - to rid myself of the damned glasses issue once and for all - but the procedure itself involves consicousness, machines which hold open your eyelids oh and that pesky laser-beam cutting your retinas down to microscopic success?!

Oh, and on the bright side - I won Leaf tix!! woohoo!

More bloggin' as I get to it...patience is a virtue or something like that...

Done.

Peace.

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EM