May 07 2009
allergies SUCK and so do angry eyeballs
so yay! i'm done with the literacy class. much yay. in fact, it's so yay, i should really be typing this in all caps, but i won't. YAY. done now. we had our last class tuesday, in which we presented our literacy narrative brilliances and i turned mine in so i could be done with it. unfortunately, about halfway through class, my right eyeball staged the revolt it had been planning for at least a week. it had been extra itchy with the allergy joys, and i'd noticed it was lookin' a little red in parts of it God intended to be white, but i carried on with the contact-wearing. why, you ask, would i do such a ridiculous thing? why would i poke the angry eyeball? two reasons, one being that my glasses are desperately in need of a visit to the fine folks at lenscrafters for adjusting. the other, more important reason is that my sinuses are all stuffed by the allergy gunk, so having the glasses on my face is really uncomfortable. faceaches, headaches and generally grumpiness follow. anyway, tuesday night was it for the eyeball apparently. it commenced to dripping and got much more redderer and puffier that seems safe, completely unfazed by my pitiful attempts to appease it with the contact re-wetting drops. I spent the last 15 or so minutes of class with it in a puddle of drops in the palm of my hand. argh.
yesterday morning it was still huge and red and even had some delightful crusties. i was smart enough to put my glasses on, and it spent the day dripping in waves, fine for a while then the dam would open. today it's basically normal sized and about as red as it was last week, which still looks like i took it partying in vegas. man, my left eye would be pissed if i didn't take it. but i'm still stuck with the glasses, which feel looser than yesterday and are absolutely killing my head, especially the front part of it. i'm at work, so i've had to wear them while the lil' one's awake because i can't really see her too well otherwise. however, during naps (like now) i can take them off and hunch over way too close to my laptop and still see to work on my fiction bit for the children's lit class.it also has the added benefit of back and neck pain as well as more ruining for my eyes. serves them right. they started it. anyway, i sadly have no really gross eyeball photos for you - totally dropped the ball there. but you can look at it today, in it's calmed state. here's a very professional-looking photobooth shot. isn't that exciting?
note the color difference in me eyeballs. also note how giant my nose looks from this particular angle