Monday, October 20, 2003

It's official! I'm legally blind!
Lemme explain. My father and I almost have a rivalry going over who's eyes are worse, mine or his. That sounds absurd, I know, but it's all in good humor. But I do know that I have won the war by achieving legally blind levels of vision impairment before reaching 20. Go me!
Turns out that the threshold for being considered legally blind is -6.00 in terms of contact lense perscription (I don't remember it for glasses). I passed that awhile ago....Okay it's know occurring to me that by the time I'm 50 I will probably be completely incapable of sight....
Shit...
In other news, I've been mostly snapped out of my funk by, of all things, my political geography research paper. My topic changed, like, four times, but I'm now writing about the different discourses that have affected Ireland from colonialism up to the present. And I'm enjoying it! The materials I'm reading are really fascinating, but some of the stuff I read about British views on the Irish just made me sad. This stuff could easily fit in with KKK literature these days! ::sniff:: I'm not violent, or messy, or lazy....well okay, I'm a bit messy, but nothing out of control!
On a completely different topic (because if I start thinking again about how much spanish work I have to do this week I think I might cry), I'm going to a costume party this weekend. I was originally going to go as a pixie, but I changed my mind and have decided to go as a Ninja....granted, the world's most unintimidating ninja, but a ninja nonetheless. I need to get to some kind of toy store or costume shop soon, too, because I need plastic swords. I want two plastic katana style swords that I can play with and attack my friends. I would make little ninja stars out of black construction paper, but I'm not cool and don't know how. Nunchuku wouldn't be too hard to make, either...all I need are some wooden dowels and the crab-trap line I keep in my room...ah the gleefully anti-social ideas never stop flowing.
Lastly, since marketing executives have decided that November does not exist, I've been thinking about Christmas list stuff. Mostly I'm just thinking about movies. Many things I want must be bought right away so as to satisfy my obsessive tendencies. For instance, I want to go to the mall tomorrow (I don't care which one) to pick up FFX2 on opening day. Another thing I want is a Krakkagar shirt.I love the comic, but really I just think the shirt is adorable. Only thing is that I need to buy that for myself since my mother has no computer skills.
Peace
~ Liz
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