Five things for a rainy Thursday morning

[scarlettina]

1) I've recently seen ads for concerts by Yes and by Alan Parsons Project and I couldn't get excited about the prospect of attending either. This is A Change; I adored these bands for years. I saw Parsons once: they stood, they played, they left. Awesome music, exactly zero stage presence. I can listen to my discs and MP3s if I want a stay-at-home

Comments

[suricattus]

oh, that's very sad about Prop 1. For all that NYC does wrong, our mass transit is one of the things that most defines and enhances it, and giving that up would be very, very difficult...

For the eye: you've tried a camomile compress? Just dampen a tea bag (as organic as you can get) and let it rest on your eyelid for ten minutes. Whenever I get a stress-twitch in my eye (complete with broken blood vessels), that clear sit up in a few days.

[girasole]

Go to the eye doctor. Now, please. I don't care how you find the time, but do it. Never mess with eye problems. Please. Take care of this.

[scarlettina]

My eye doc's office opens at 11. I'll be calling then for an appointment. I'm a little freaked out about this.

[oldmangrumpus]

As you might imagine, I'm kind of atomically furious about the Prop. 1 vote myself. But let's not forget that the state legislature is the root cause. They refuse to vote on a transit bill - or much of anything - and so Metro was screwed.

[intelligentrix]

In re the eye issue: I had something similar (and have had it recur) and was told by an ophthalmologist that it was simply an allergy issue and other than using eye drops there wasn't much to be done. In one case, I rubbed so hard at the edge of my eye that I burst a capillary and for weeks looked like an extra in a horror movie. Again, looked awful, nothing to do about it. Good luck and don't stress about it too much (says the person with no medical training but lots of first-hand experience). YMMV and the usual disclaimers.