Today began with an adventure.
This morning, my razor broke. Since I use a cartridge-based razor, all I needed to do was replace the blade, but while I was fiddling with the mechanism, my hand slipped, the head went flying, and nicked me good right by the corner of my eye. Good thing it didn't go flying off just a few millimeters to the right (left, in the following photo), or I'd have been in trouble! Here's a not-too-great picture of the wound, although I'm sure no one would actually want to see it in sharper detail:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/95781046@N00/3924552076/
It didn't bleed too much, but the nick is RIGHT where the nosepad of my glasses rest, so I had to choose between irritation and blindness all day long!
In other eye-related news, when I got off work this evening I had received a voicemail from the vision center saying my new glasses were in! "Whaaa?..." you may be saying, if you remember that I got new glasses only about 2 weeks ago. What happened was that the when the vision center ordered the lenses for my frame, the manufacturer cut them incorrectly, and they started popping out of frames on day 2. The left lens especially was prone to trying to escape, which is a bad thing since my vision is worse in the left eye than the right. I went back to try to get adjustments done that day, and then the day after, but when the left lens tried to escape AGAIN (this time before I was even out the door of the vision center!), they offered to just go ahead and re-order everything and make sure it all fit properly. And now the end result is New Glasses v.2.0! They are the exact same frame and style, but hopefully a bit more agreeable than the glasses I've been wearing!
In NON-eye-related news, the Carolina Renaissance Faire is coming up, and the first day is 10 October! That's less than a month away; I'm so excited! I have lived in North Carolina since 1996, and have been to the Renaissance Faire 18 times in those 11 years (Eleven years because I'm not counting 2006 (I was doing an international internship in Europe then), and because the 2009 Faire hasn't happened yet). I'm tentatively making several trips to the Faire this year; anyone interested in going with me please contact me so that we can work out schedules and other details!
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Oh! That's horrible! I hope you have better eye-luck!
I didn't realize that the ren faire went so far into November! I may be able to go, after all! Exciting!
I've got tentative plans to go at least one weekend in Novemember, if you're interested in doing a group sort of thing! Email me and let me know!
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