The Quest for Vision
Well, the day before yesterday (um...Wednesday) I went to the eye doctor with my friend Joolo. We found a place that would do a $29 complete eye exam (as opposed to $55-75 we found at other places like VisionWorks and Lenscrafters). I am officially nearsighted and have a very odd quirk about that nearsightedness. My eyesight is exactly the same in each eye...both eyes have the EXACT perscription as the other. This is apparently unheard of and everyone thinks it's a bit weird. (I, on the other hand, was like, "Oh, you mean that's not normal?") In case it means anything to anyone, my Rx is for -1.75 in each eye. Again, this is garbage to me, but...apparently makes sense to people who know this sort of thing. The really bad thing is that they put these drops in my eyes - and no, not the ones that dialate your eyes - but these other ones that are a numbing agent for your glaucoma test. (so you don't feel the puff of air on your eye and you don't squirm away). Problem is that my eyes watered and watered for like an hour and a half until it wore off. As soon as it wore off, my eyes began to hurt VERY BADLY. Almost like the feeling when I have a migraine (where there is an ice pick in my eyeball) but instead of being in one section (behind the eye), it was all over the eye. My eyeball literally ACHED from about 2pm through 11pm or so. I kept rinsing them out - flushing them with water over and over - to make it stop even for a moment. Apparently, some people are allergic to them (Joolo's friend the Witch - who we went and saw that night - has the same problem which is really odd since it seems that we have an oddly weird amount of things in common) but, I did not know this. Now I need to find out exactly what that shit was and avoid it like the plague. ACK! (did I mention it made me tear yellow too?) Bleck, bleck, and more bleck.
The good news is that I have the Rx and my Love's mom can order me the frames (retail price $139.99, her price $44.95) and can make the lenses for me as well. She says it will take about a week or so for them to come in (which is longer then I was hoping for since I'm desperate for my license, but is WELL worth it for how much it's going to save Joolo). So...within the next two weeks I should have the frames, lenses, and therefore glasses so I can get my license back to legal status. Which leads me to...
See you in Court
My mom calls me over the weekend and says that she got a letter in the mail for me from the Clerk of the Court. She was panicked since I hadn't told her about being pulled over (although I tried to call her a couple times but did not reach her). I explained what it was - the correction notice for the ticket - and had her open it. My new court date is October 29, 2001 at 10am. *sigh* It's a good and bad thing that it's been pushed back a week. Good that I have another week to get my license before I go in, but bad because it's more time to panic about what is going to happen and what in the world I'm going to do about trying to pay more money I don't have. But, right now, I'm trying to not think about it and instead focus on getting my license back to good and of course getting a job...
Interviews and Other Good Things
The day I had gotten pulled over (last Thursday) I had just gotten off my cell phone with a company who wanted to meet me for an interview. It was set for THIS Thursday (yesterday, 10/12) and that was a problem of course because I could not legally drive myself there unless I wanted to risk being arrested. (A big no). Well, it was Joolo to the rescue again. (Just FYI, Joolo works 3, 12-hour days which is why he had the time during the week) He drove over to my apt, picked me up, and then drove me to my interview in my car since his insurance would cover him. Happy to report that we did not get pulled over at all and not only did I make it to the one interview (which went well and which I will know in two weeks if I got it...although she said they had 200 applicants which they narrowed down to 8 and then to 4 that they interviewed...that made me feel good and worthy) but another that I scheduled that very day as I was getting ready for the first. They both went well, but seeing as I did not hear from the second one today and he wanted to start the person Monday (10/15/01) I'm pretty sure he went with someone else. It also looks like I may have a temp job for the next two weeks, but with the inability to drive legally...I'm not sure if I'm going to do it. At least there's finally SOMETHING going on...
The Rest
Beyond that....? I'm still half up, half down with my mood. It's all over the place. At least with getting something accomplished with the glasses it keeps me from being utterly hopeless. I'm still completely helpless for my car payment this month - $319.74 due on the 22nd. There is simply no way I have the money (or anything even close) and since I'm still running two months behind, if I were to miss this one (even by a day) I'll lose my car. I can not be three months behind and it leaves me in a position where I again just don't what to do...
But...since I need to go and have been typing for about 45 minutes, this is where I will close. More maybe this weekend if I get back over here to use the net. Out for now.
ps: Rand is being mean and taking bad pictures of me as I type this with his digital camera. Ick! No....!
~ flowers bloom near Memory and Dream
at 10/12/2001 05:51:41 PM ~
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