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huge pupils. i can see forever.
I spent the day, the entire day, at the mechanic's office. I had brought my sources for the review of literature I really should have written over the last few weeks, and spent my time underlining interesting or useful passages, and waiting for my car to get to the front of the line, which it did, eventually... whereupon I learned that they don't have the part. I'd talked to them about this a few weeks ago; they said they'd order a new piece of exhaust pipe, but apparently it got lost in the shuffle. I'll have to come back another day, preferably not on the weekend, when they're incredibly busy. Of course, I work weekdays. It is, indeed, a conundrum.

Carin, meanwhile, worked a full day at the coffee shop, and was plenty bushed by the time I picked her up. It's to be expected; nobody is running at full power after a day of work, not without the aid of powerful stimulants, at least. She stuck around the mall long enough for me to get my new lenses installed in my glasses. They dilated my pupils with some eyedrops (including those wacky anesthetic ones that make your eyeballs feel sticky), and had a look at my retinas, which are apparently fine. The optometrist was kind enough to answer all my silly questions (where's the muscle that contracts the iris? how do those drops work?), too.

And now, I can see forever. I forgot how much detail there is in everything, how intricate the whole wide material world is. I think they put glasses on mirrored racks just so you have something to goggle at when you get your vision restored. It'll take a bit of getting used to, and it's a bit unsettling to not be able to focus on anything near my face (it should get better once my pupils shrink), but it's all worth it. The world is full of radiantly detailed beauty. Also, i can read the laptop while sitting on the couch and resting it on the table.

I think that's one of only two pictures of myself on my flickr. I'm okay with a one-in-a-hundred level of narcissism.

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