Makes me sound mysterious, no, like a pirate?
Not really. Ok, this is maybe a little gross. If you get squicked out by hearing about another person’s eye problems, read no further.
I lost a contact lens in my eye, and I have no idea where it is. I really really hope that it fell out somewhere without me noticing, because I can’t find it, although my eyeball is itchy. And this happened 15 minutes before I went on the reference desk. It really messes with your vision, to have one contact lens in and one not. I was contemplating whipping up an eye patch out of office supplies, because that’s what the lipstick librarian might do. I was thinking about making an eye patch out of a post-it note colored black with a sharpie, and making an eye patch chain to wrap around my head with paperclips, but then I decided that would make me look scary like Nadine from Twin Peaks.
So I decided to arrange my hair in imitation of Veronica Lake, hanging over my afflicted eye.
And I kept blinking and hoping that no one would think that I was being playful with them and winking at them when I was just trying to dislodge my still-missing contact lens. And trying to look up wacky ILL requests in World Cat with poor vision was fun.
I hope my eye doesn’t become horribly infected and fall out.
I really wish I did not have to wear my glasses tomorrow, because I don’t want to look like a librarian!
Gross. Has your eye liquified yet?
No liquification as of yet.
I did wear my glasses to work today, with lipstick to counteract their librarianish qualities.
The lipstick was on my lips, not the glasses.
That’s good.
Ooh–I picked up the new Robin McKinley, Sunshine, yesterday. Very decent so far, with a coffeehouse baker trapped in a house with a vampire.
I really want to read Sunshine, maybe in 2 weeks when I will actually have money to buy books!
Ever the practical engineer, did you think of seeing an ophthamologist to see if s/he could fish your lens out of your eye? Re: Ms. Lake, I believe you were compared to said person as much as 14 years ago (when you claimed to have no more than half a life, which having lived as long as you have, will have proved prophetic next year). Or are algebra “age problems” banned from this blog?
I concluded that when my eye did not feel bad, that the lens randomly fell out unbeknownst to me when I was rubbing it.
I did get the whole, “You should go see an eye doctor” lecture from your wife, shortly after blogging about my vision problems
I can still live fast and die young if I get to work REALLY soon.
I feel like I’m eavesdropping on a tangognat family reunion!
I think all this commenting from my family is a manifestation of their unconsious desire to….BLOG!