apropos of anything

I picked them up this afternoon. My new glasses.

It’s different.

I haven’t worn glasses since I got my first pair of contacts in the tenth grade. The change is… disconcerting. I miss my peripheral vision. Also, I’m having some problems, like stumbling down the stairs because I didn’t (couldn’t) see that I’d already gone as far as I could go, stairs-wise. And dizziness, when I look from one place to another. Is that common? Do glasses-wearing eyes normally take a few seconds to adjust when you swing your head in another direction? I can’t remember.

I don’t plan to wear them all the time, but the doctor thinks my corneas aren’t being oxygenated enough and I need to give them some relief from contact lenses (Saran wrap for your eyes, he says) whenever I can. It would have been so nice to have had them on my hajj trip earlier this year; dust, dryness, and irregular sleep schedules wreaked havoc on my contacts.

On another note, I took down the “Murky waters” post (as is my perogative, even if some people might think it’s selfish, and no, I’m not getting over that anytime soon) because things down in the Gulf are pretty wretched and heartbreaking, and it doesn’t matter exactly where on the “wretched and heartbreaking” scale they fall.

Donations, anyone?

(Oh, and in case you were wondering, Dorothy Parker + me = BFF.)

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