life is never dull in your dreams
looking back i noticed i haven't posted in two weeks. it certainly doesn't seem that long. whether cause or effect, the days have been running together worse than usual lately. then again, it doesn't seem like there's that much point to differentiating them. another day that i missed half of my class from being held late at work. another day of looking at people on the bus and not talking to anybody. another night drinking alone. more homework done, more homework shirked, may as well just get it over with and not dwell on it.
no, really, it's only in hindsight that it's painful to try to separate the days. no sense looking at the past anyway. what made today any different than any other day?
found out that i didn't have a gruesome eye infection after all. sunday night i decided to experiment with the extended-wear function of my contact lenses, and paid the price the next day. on the drive home from work i could barely keep my eyes open, i've never had such dry scratchy eyes. it didn't get any better when i took them out and went to class in my glasses, either. it felt like i had sand stuck in my eyes but it wouldn't come out. i'm sure everyone who saw me thought i'd been crying all day, every time i rubbed my eyes they'd get incredibly painful and red and tear up. i was sure i had an infection and was halfway sure i'd wake up with my eyelids crusted shut with pus. but no, in fact, they were fine when i woke up and i was even able to put the lenses back in with no trouble. i don't see how people can leave them in for a week at a time, though. maybe it gets easier.
fixed a printer at work and saved my employer a thousand bucks or so. xerox wanted 300 bucks just to come look at the printer. the problem: two burned-out generic halogen lightbulbs in the heater core. 10 dollars. anyway, i see why they don't fire me, now.
tripped my power strip's reset switch with my toe and rewrote a whole livejournal post anyway.
woke up to an unexpected e-mail from a very old online acquaintance. another of those "here's what i've been up to, what have you been up to?" communique's, the ones that provide an opportunity to reflect on how long one's life has been stuck in neutral. the more exciting the letter i'm responding to, the more difficult it is, too. so this one will probably be a doozy. i haven't responded yet but i hope i work up the nerve to do so before too long.
look forward to a less dolorous posting some other day. i know i am.
no, really, it's only in hindsight that it's painful to try to separate the days. no sense looking at the past anyway. what made today any different than any other day?
found out that i didn't have a gruesome eye infection after all. sunday night i decided to experiment with the extended-wear function of my contact lenses, and paid the price the next day. on the drive home from work i could barely keep my eyes open, i've never had such dry scratchy eyes. it didn't get any better when i took them out and went to class in my glasses, either. it felt like i had sand stuck in my eyes but it wouldn't come out. i'm sure everyone who saw me thought i'd been crying all day, every time i rubbed my eyes they'd get incredibly painful and red and tear up. i was sure i had an infection and was halfway sure i'd wake up with my eyelids crusted shut with pus. but no, in fact, they were fine when i woke up and i was even able to put the lenses back in with no trouble. i don't see how people can leave them in for a week at a time, though. maybe it gets easier.
fixed a printer at work and saved my employer a thousand bucks or so. xerox wanted 300 bucks just to come look at the printer. the problem: two burned-out generic halogen lightbulbs in the heater core. 10 dollars. anyway, i see why they don't fire me, now.
tripped my power strip's reset switch with my toe and rewrote a whole livejournal post anyway.
woke up to an unexpected e-mail from a very old online acquaintance. another of those "here's what i've been up to, what have you been up to?" communique's, the ones that provide an opportunity to reflect on how long one's life has been stuck in neutral. the more exciting the letter i'm responding to, the more difficult it is, too. so this one will probably be a doozy. i haven't responded yet but i hope i work up the nerve to do so before too long.
look forward to a less dolorous posting some other day. i know i am.