I had to take the night off from doing much of anything yesterday because I went for a routine eye check at my optometrist’s and she dilated my eyes. Some of you may say , big deal, but since I have been going to this optometrist for at least ten years and she has never once dilated my eyes I was surprised by it. I have never had my eyes dilated before. I expected light to be too bright but I did not expect the horrid eye strain headache. Ugh. Nonetheless, after I was done at the optometrist Bookman and I had some things to pick up at Target. Something I learned: walking around Target at night while wearing sunglasses makes people stare at you.
Back at home I was too wiped out to read and my head still hurt so we watched an episode of The X-Files from season one (currently available to stream over Netflix) and then I went to bed. Pupils back to normal this morning but eyes still a little tired.
Oh, and even though my prescription didn’t change I’ve had the same frames for about three years so picked out some new frames which will give me a spare. Bookman was helping me pick them out and he, in all helpfulness, told me I didn’t have long eyelashes (so didn’t need to worry about how close the lenses were to my eyes) and my eyes were close together. Just what a girl likes to hear. He amended the eyes close together with an “I mean you have a narrow bridge.” Too late, damage done! What this meant was that the seemingly popular style of rectangular frames don’t look good on me. I finally settled on some that are roundish, maybe slightly oval can’t remember for sure. They aren’t Harry Potter, more like Radar O’Reilly but smaller. They’ll be ready by the weekend.
To somewhat redeem this post, I will say I have managed to finish two books in as many weeks. Hopefully tomorrow you will get a review of Orion You Came and You Took All My Marbles and Thursday will, with luck, will bring you In Utopia. Until then, be good, happy reading, and have a chuckle over stupid reference questions. It’s hard to say which one made me laugh more, the patron who wanted audio recordings of live dinosaur sounds or the one who asked for the Gutenberg Bible on interlibrary loan.
At least he didn’t actually use the word “beady”…
And maybe you can get the Gutenberg Bible on ILL, sort of: 0292706162
It’s been years since I had my eyes dilated — I didn’t think they did that anymore, the practice just fell out of favour. I do remember it being very uncomfortable, and it made my eyes tired, even though I wasn’t supposed to feel a thing. They said my eyes might look strange for an hour but it always lasted the whole day. Poor you!
Poor Bookman. That made me laugh, however. Did you pretend you were a rockstar in Target?
I have never heard of anyone getting their eyes dilated before – it sounds horrible! Poor you! Thank you for the link to the silly questions, though, King Malcolm the Tenth was a complete hoot. I’m copying the link to my academic publisher who adores this sort of thing too. We still fall about when we recall the email that did the rounds of silly quiz question answers, and in particular the question: ‘What was Ghandi’s first name?’ To which came the reply ‘Goosey Goosey?’
Sylvia, heh, at least there’s that! And who knew? The Gutenberg Bible on CD-ROM. Very interlibrary loan-able.
Isabella, eye dilation is pretty common in the states to check for glaucoma and cataracts and other less common problems. I suspect my doctor did it because I somehow keep getting older and I mentioned that my grandma and aunt (her daughter) have had cataracts.
Daphne, total rock star
Litlove, really? It’s pretty common over here. It affects everyone differently. I’m sensistive to bright lights anyway and prone to eyestrain so I shouldn’t have been so surprised. Glad you enjoyed the funnies and I hope your editor does too. Goosey Goosey Ghandi, sure, that’s what all his friends called him
I bet you looked like a wanabee rock star in your sun glasses indoors. You should have borrowed a fake fur coat and a fedora to walk around(I’m sure you could find one somewhere in the shop).
Men just don’t get it sometimes. I love the link. My favorite is the question why so many Civil War battles were fought in national parks, tied with the one about Rosetta Stone (who I hear speaks many languages).
Ah Mr. Bookman, trying to be helpful
I like Jodie’s idea. I think you totally should have done that!
Okay…..I am a guy and I just don’t get it. I continued my downwards spiral into the doghouse(although doghouse doesn’t sound like a bad place to me) by pointing out that Stef’s outfit this morning made her lower half look bigger….oh shit did I really say that? What I meant to say was that it reminds me of the Japanese fashion – Fruits. Furious backpedal. I guess I have to bake some cake now.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_street_fashion
Jodie, heh, now that is something I didn’t think about! Would have been pretty funny.
Grad, he’s usually pretty good but slips now and then. And yeah, that Rosetta, she is really good at anicent and obscure languages
Iliana, I’ll have to keep Jodie’s idea in mind should I ever be out and about with dilated eyes again
Bookman, hmm, I’m not so sure I’m convinced…
I am sure the frames are looking wonderful! I hate going to eye doctors. I have never worn glasses and I am in such a fear of having to wear them that I just dont ever get my eyes checked! Do you like watching x-files? I am a huge fan…I have the first 6 seasons on dvd and now catching up on the rest on netflix . Have seen every episode a dozen times!
we’ve started watching xfiles from beginning as well via netflix streaming!!