Left Eye.

Sometimes I'm moderately sure that my life is some sort of hour-long show in another dimension. Sometimes it's drama, sometimes it's slapstick comedy. No idea about the ratings, but they have to be pretty good, considering the wacky cast of characters that I tend to encounter, and the even wackier things that seem to happen to me.

Case in point - I had to stay home from work yesterday because I woke up with my right eye swollen shut. An emergency visit to my eye doctor later, I discovered that it was swollen because I had a mild corneal abraison. And why did I have this abrasion? Because I seem to have slept with one eye open. No, I don't know either. I still can't believe that I tried to pull a Black Knight (no, really, I'm fine! I shouldn't have to stay home) despite only being able to see out of ONE EYE. Luckily, Puck intervened, I called my parents, and then my eye doctor, who had an appointment available in the morning. I could have just seen myself trying to board the F Train with one eye. That would have been comedy gold, right there. *sigh* After that, I spent the day on my parents' couch looking at magazines and napping. After some drops at the doc's office my eye was back to normal, and I did everything I could think of to test it.

And now I'm back at work, trying to decide if I want a pork and plantains sandwich from the cuban place (likely), tacos from the mexican cart (possibly), or an eggplant parm hero from the Italian place for lunch today. The last one is fairly unlikely, as I'm a little burned out on tomatoes right now. dotfic knows why.

Anyway, the icon in use is to celebrate the OMG BRAND NEW episode of Ugly Betty on tonight! Eeee!

Left Eye.

Sometimes I'm moderately sure that my life is some sort of hour-long show in another dimension. Sometimes it's drama, sometimes it's slapstick comedy. No idea about the ratings, but they have to be pretty good, considering the wacky cast of characters that I tend to encounter, and the even wackier things that seem to happen to me.

Case in point - I had to stay home from work yesterday because I woke up with my right eye swollen shut. An emergency visit to my eye doctor later, I discovered that it was swollen because I had a mild corneal abraison. And why did I have this abrasion? Because I seem to have slept with one eye open. No, I don't know either. I still can't believe that I tried to pull a Black Knight (no, really, I'm fine! I shouldn't have to stay home) despite only being able to see out of ONE EYE. Luckily, Puck intervened, I called my parents, and then my eye doctor, who had an appointment available in the morning. I could have just seen myself trying to board the F Train with one eye. That would have been comedy gold, right there. *sigh* After that, I spent the day on my parents' couch looking at magazines and napping. After some drops at the doc's office my eye was back to normal, and I did everything I could think of to test it.

And now I'm back at work, trying to decide if I want a pork and plantains sandwich from the cuban place (likely), tacos from the mexican cart (possibly), or an eggplant parm hero from the Italian place for lunch today. The last one is fairly unlikely, as I'm a little burned out on tomatoes right now. dotfic knows why.

Anyway, the icon in use is to celebrate the OMG BRAND NEW episode of Ugly Betty on tonight! Eeee!

When danger reared its ugly head, he bravely turned his tail and fled...

I don't read Making Light every day, but every so often they run something that catches my attention. Today it was a clip of "The Tale of Sir Robin" from Monty Python and the Holy Grail, dedicated to John McCain.

The clip was a call out to this blog post by John Scalzi, which contains such memorable quips as:

"A man who has readily admitted he doesn’t know much about the economy makes a big show of bringing his presidential campaign to a grinding halt to rush to Washington to fix it, which seems a bit like a NASA auto pool mechanic declaring to all and sundry that he’s going to stop making oil changes to rush to Florida to consult on the Shuttle."

and!

"...that Sarah Palin can’t be trusted to extemporize about damn near anything without appearing like she’s stuffing her conservative-yet-stylish pumps far enough down her throat to alarm her epiglottis."


also: Kudos to David Letterman for also calling Senator McCain on his bullcrap. It's always entertaining to see an honest, yet respectful, epic WTF echo from the heavens. I'm not sure if I agree more with Scalzi or with Letterman, but both of them made interesting points and observations that I happen to agree with.

When danger reared its ugly head, he bravely turned his tail and fled...

I don't read Making Light every day, but every so often they run something that catches my attention. Today it was a clip of "The Tale of Sir Robin" from Monty Python and the Holy Grail, dedicated to John McCain.

The clip was a call out to this blog post by John Scalzi, which contains such memorable quips as:

"A man who has readily admitted he doesn’t know much about the economy makes a big show of bringing his presidential campaign to a grinding halt to rush to Washington to fix it, which seems a bit like a NASA auto pool mechanic declaring to all and sundry that he’s going to stop making oil changes to rush to Florida to consult on the Shuttle."

and!

"...that Sarah Palin can’t be trusted to extemporize about damn near anything without appearing like she’s stuffing her conservative-yet-stylish pumps far enough down her throat to alarm her epiglottis."


also: Kudos to David Letterman for also calling Senator McCain on his bullcrap. It's always entertaining to see an honest, yet respectful, epic WTF echo from the heavens. I'm not sure if I agree more with Scalzi or with Letterman, but both of them made interesting points and observations that I happen to agree with.