Day 2 of post-Lasik vision finds me still seeing better. I had a follow-up this morning and was told I had 20/20 sight in one eye and 20/25 in the other. Pretty awesome. Despite this, everything has kind of a slight blurring, which I guess is because of residual swelling. I also have these totally scary red patches in parts of my eyeballs that ( Read more... )

Today I completely defied evolution and had my vision corrected with Lasik, undoing a defect that would have gotten me eaten by saber-tooth tiger, had I lived back in the Ice Age. The whole experience was weird and brief, as most other Lasik patients report. It was also extremely painful afterwards, once the medication wore off and my eyes ( Read more... )

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Contest results!

I'm starting to understand why so many people who have blog contests just pick a random number for the winner. Going through all of the entries for the "What not to say on a first date" contest was hard! Honestly, they were all good, but alas I cannot give Storm Born to everyone ( Read more... )

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I run contests because I want to give people cool prizes. But, I confess, despite the fact that I of course want someone to win, I get kind of a sadistic thrill out of stumping everyone. And, it looks like I'm two for two with these Truth/Lie contests. Nobody guessed all three lies correctly! Well, someone actually did: my long lost pen pal ( Read more... )

So, last night I was at Safeway, buying large amounts of Splenda-infused foods. Like so many grocery stores, Safeway has a 'club' that you're essentially forced to join if you don't want to pay ridiculous prices. Instead of a card, I usually have them look me up by my phone number ( Read more... )

...results to be posted later. :)

I know, I know. This is kind of unprecedented (or is it?), but I'm going to have two concurrent contests. I do this with a bit of trepidation because goodness only knows what some of you wacky types are going to come up with! But, here we go:

I need a school motto for St. Vladimir's Academy (that would be the vampire academy in Vampire Academy) ( Read more... )

...I'm watching TV right now, which I don't usually do when I write anything because it distracts me. And it is distracting me today because I found I couldn't really compose this profound post about how once you put yourself out in the public eye, you sort of lose some of your humanity and become an object. But, that's kind of a dense thing to ( Read more... )