Category: Miscellaneous

I’m trying to decide what to do about my eyes. I need new contact lenses and new lenses for my year-old glasses–my prescription is way out of date, and focusing on a computer screen is becoming harder. I also have $800 to kill from my pre-tax medical spending account, so money is not the issue. The thing is, I haven’t really been happy with my optometrist. He’s nice, and I’ve been going to him for seven years, and he’s within walking distance, and I even know his assistant’s name, but my prescription rarely seems, well, right. My optometrist back home always got it right, but this guy? Hardly ever. My latest pair of glasses took me six months to get used to, and I wonder if my eyes were affected by trying to get used to the wrong prescription.

So yes, I’m thinking I need a new doctor. But, I’ve known this guy for seven years. And it’s hard to go out there and find a new doctor–there’s not even a guarantee that new guy/gal would be better. I’m almost inclined to hit a LensCrafter or Pearl Vision or some other big chain of impersonal care.

I don’t know. I’m undecided, but I have a time limit–five and a half weeks, to be exact–and I need to make a decision and act on it before then. Phooey. I hate making decisions. And breaking up with doctors. Well, and breaking up with anyone. But that’s a whole ‘nother post.

22. I graduated from Umass Amherst with a degree in English Lit and a minor in Classical Civilizations.

23. I would’ve majored in Classics, except it required four semesters of either Latin or Greek, and I was tired of languages.

24. I studied French for four years in high school and two semesters in college. I suck at it.

19. I love to play pool, and I’m not half bad at it. I used to play in the basement of my dorm, usually around 2am when all the guys who’d been monopolizing the table finally went to bed. If I don’t get enough practice, though, I can suck pretty spectacularly.

20. I won a pool tournament once, also at my last company. First prize was a Batman mug, because they expected the winner would be one of the Vice Presidents.

21. My favorite drinks in college were fuzzy navels and Bacardi Breezers.

10. I’m slightly obsessive-compulsive. This means I get really into TV shows and hobbies.
11. I’m a bit flaky, which means I can drop a hobby I was previously obsessed about, and never look back.
12. One TV show I was obsessed with was MacGyver. It was pre-internet, so the only way to truly show my devotion was to watch it twice a day (7 and 11 on USA!), and make it my mission in life to see every episode ever featured in the opening credits montage.
13. I was a finalist for a spontaneous essay contest in high school. I think I blew it when I had to write an essay that wasn’t spontaneous, i.e. I had more time to work on it than an hour, and they saw that there wasn’t really a difference.
14. I’m a master procrastinator (which kinda helps explain #13).
15. I received a perfect score on an essay I wrote in junior high for a state test. It was apparently very rare to get a perfect score on that test, so, yay me! The topic was, Where Would You Rather Be Right Now? I wrote about Narnia.
16. I was the first person in my generation of my family to receive my Bachelor’s degree, and the third person ever (two uncles beat me to it).
17. I’m a big fan of practical jokes, and was (in)famous for them at my last job.
18. I used to write humorous poems and songs, mostly\ for my (previous) company’s annual Secret Santa ritual. Cleverness was highly regarded, both for the gift itself and for the note that accompanied it. One year, I ghost-wrote poems for five other people’s gifts.

I removed the commenting option. The only “people” using it were the spam engines, so there was no real need to keep them. Someday, I’ll get around to upgrading myself to a WordPress blog, which has better spam and comment control. Until then, I’ll just be talking to myself, wondering if anyone’s really hearing me out there. And you know what happens when a person talks to herself for too long, right? All kinds of crazy stuff starts to come out!

In not so crazy stuff (or maybe it is?) I have lost motivation yet again to clean my apartment. There was a chance I’d have a houseguest later this month, which is always the *perfect* motivation for all kinds of things, but now the houseguest is not so much, so my tolerance for untidiness has returned to its usual very high levels. Very sad. Also sad that I won’t get to see said houseguest, for that matter.

But! That leaves more time for knitting for Christmas. 😀 See? Bright side to everything!

And in other news, I owe about a gazillion “things about me”, so let me go get started on that.