I feel like posting but there really isn't much new to say.

I wish I started wearing contacts years ago. These things are awesome. I seriously can't wear glasses anymore. How anyone liked me when I wore them is anyone's guess. I need a non-glasses LJ picture but I haven't got around to it yet. I'd rather sit like 2 inches from the monitor than wear my glsses after taking them out tonight for a rest.

Today at work Amy decided that I should be a math teacher. I actually had an epiphany last Wednesday during the recitation class regarding that. I was asking the professor about right triangle trig stuff because I hate that stuff and never really learned it properly. It'd be awesome to just teach like high school math, because when you think about it, you'll probably be teaching all kinds of math. From Calculus to Algebra to Geometry. Man I miss proofs.

My room is a mess and has been like this for a while. I never made any start of the new year poker posts that I had planned to do. I haven't done my taxes and I haven't done the FAFSA. No time between going to school, going to work, and not doing schoolwork. I probably try to do stuff tommorrow but then I'll wait till like 7 at night to start, play poker at 9 and then get stuck winning again, and then go to bed too late and get up for school.

I probably didn't do nearly as good on my Sociology quiz as I could of. Like I said, after getting a 98 there's really no where to go but down. 80-90 would be good though. There's a take-home essay mid-term due on Thursday. I hate take home stuff. The only good time I have to do it is tommorrow and I'll probably not get to it.

I think I left my phone at work. Stupid. Just as I was lecturing my mom today how I won't lose my phone and etc. Sigh.

Finally, I like it when people comment. I makes me feel less lonely. Granted I should probably talk to some of you more often over IM or otherwise. But it's nice to come home after writing a long entry and getting some reassurance that I'm not as crazy as I seem. Thanks peoples.

My phone is still 7742546863. My parents did put a small text messaging plan on it so text me if you feel like it.

Tags: bcc, contacts, future, life
Current Music: stuff that isn't lost in the middle of my hard drive

Class went fine Monday. The moment I got in Child Psych, the girl in the seat in front of me told me what we missed, which was pretty much what we were doing the day before playing the game guessing what people liked as kids. I guess for Valentine's Day we're getting valentines for everyone in the class and have to get everyone in the class one. 32 people in the class, still 3 guys 29 girls. No one's really disappeared yet either.

I saw my professor for Calc during the free hour I had and she told me what I needed to do for the lab which is due Friday. Calc was fine. And in History we had a quiz..yeah, he said he was testing to see if we need to do weekly quizzes. I actually did pretty good on it I think considering I didn't read the chapter and I missed Friday's class. I didn't get the notes from anyone from Friday but I might ask Thursday in class.

I took my contacts out last night for the first time in around 10 days. I may never take them out again at this rate. Wearing glasses sucks.

I'm pretty far behind on any schoolwork I should do but it really doesn't bother me. Most of it is reading and I can read anytime I get free time. It's a mixed blessing not having much stuff to do, going to be so easy to slack off and have to rush to read 2 chapters (like in Abnormal), but I'll deal.

This is such a boring entry, I should probably go do some stuff now.

Tags: bcc, contacts

Sociology looks to be enjoyable. Lot of reading probably but that's cool. I love how I'm really actually pretty shy and reserved but I'm the only person who makes any comments or jokes during class. I'm like grouply extroverted.

I really missed math. u prime to the rescue. Super bonus that the Calc class at 12 is a recitation class. Whatever that really means, I guess it's just like a study with someone else who comes in to help us with work if we need it. Today no one was scheduled to come in so the professor just told us we could leave. Also there's a Computer Lab by my Calc class that I can use 10-1050 on Monday for my free hour. Sweet.

58 more trips left. I took the wrong exit this morning and got a little lost in the middle of nowhere Fall River but I stopped for directions and got to school back quickly. Good thing I did too because it would of taken me a while to get back just going north which I couldn't even do right. Also the drive home is pretty much like a video game once I get on the highway. It's kind of amusing to be driving a shitbox and passing people doing 70. Please don't break car.


Also, I was reading Daniel Negreanu's blog and he mentioned shitty food in Memphis and I'm thinking, dude, just go to Subway and further down he mentions going to Subway. Pretty funny. I had a dream a few days ago about Freddy Deeb coming in to get a sub too.

These contacts are freaking awesome too. I can sleep in them, get up, see fine, take a shower, see fine. They feel awesome. I see people around wearing glasses and I'm like damn, people should see the light. I wonder how many people who don't wear glasses are actually wearing contacts, because you can't really tell that much.

Tags: bcc, contacts
Current Music: Howie Day

Bunch of stuff I want to mention, so this is in somewhat random order.

Got my new prescription for the contacts on Tuesday. I don't know what brand my old pair was, but they were daily-wear ones because at the time the doctor didn't have the extended-wear ones. With the old pair I had a bit of double vision and trouble focusing on objects close up or especially with text on computer screens. These are PureVision extended-wear contacts, and the moment I put them in I could tell the difference. I can pretty much read text on computer just as well as I could with glasses, and focusing is much better. When I went for my checkup on Thursday I could read the 20/20 line easily. Although I put in an order for a 6-month supply and it cost me $160, I think it is worth it. In the short-term it is less expensive then glasses and considering I couldn't decide on a good looking pair of glasses to save my life, contacts really were a good choice.

A few things bother me though about the whole contacts issue. While I received a lot of guidelines for the first set of lenses, I really wasn't told much of what to do with these, just given them. I read over a pamphlet on their website and there were a bunch of suggestions about what to do regarding wearing them for a prolonged period continuously. Right now I haven't worn them overnight and I probably won't till Saturday night. I wore them for over 13 hours I think on Thursday and everything was fine and my eyes felt pretty good. I think if my eye doctor isn't going to set any guidelines for wearing them I might as well play it cautiously for now and just gradually get used to wearing them for prolonged periods. I.E., it would probably be a bad idea to just wear them for 7 days straight off.

Also, The doctor I saw on Thursday was the same one I saw the first time, and while I know I wanted to really thank her before I didn't other then a typical thank you. I felt kind of weird because I'm not sure if that first appointment I had was a typical experience for a first time contact lens patient but it seemed like she might have got a bit annoyed that day and might have remembered me and not been in that good a mood. Whatever. I also don't have a followup appointment scheduled any time in the near future, which I would have thought was what they would do after about 3 or 6 months to make sure everything is okay in that time. Again, whatever. Yeah for 20/20 vision.

On to school. I was able to go down and get registered for that Calc II class on Tuesday as well. I went home and tried to pay for all $2177 of my school bill on my check card and it was denied. I'm not really sure why it was, I guess there's a max payment limit or something on the account/check card, because smaller payments went through. Eventually I did like 5 or 6 different payments and got the whole $2177 cleared. So in the past 3 days I've probably spent more money then I did the first 18 years of my life.

Here's what my pending transactions on the Sovereign website look like...
01/19/2006 PENDING - Debit Card $327.00-
01/19/2006 PENDING - Debit Card $160.00-
01/18/2006 PENDING - Debit Card $400.00-
01/18/2006 PENDING - Debit Card $1,000.00-
01/18/2006 PENDING - Debit Card $100.00-

The $160 is the contact lens order and the rest are the school payments that went through. $1827 of it on my bank account and $350 on the Capital One card because I thought the check card was the problem.

And why can I pay for all of this? I knew I was going to be cutting it close on the school bill with how much money I had in my bank account so I made an EFT from my Neteller account for $800 from my poker bankroll. The scary part is, I now have $1466.35 of Poker money in my Bank Account after that transfer and my last two big wins and I think I only have $1000 in the bank after all those purchases. I've kind of overdrawn my poker bankroll, but I'm planning on just repaying it back on money from the real notrealjob and not removing money from it, yet. Now, that is why I play poker ain't it?

(Gosh I write a lot don't I?)

Also regarding school, realized that the two days that I have to work are the lighter workload days, Monday and Wednesday with only 3 hours of classes, an hour break on Monday and going in at 10 on Wednesday. So that isn't too too bad. Wednesday is technically only Sociology and Calc II as well, so that might mean less work due on Thursday.

Regarding life, I've had the chance to hang out with Liz Lutz (I'm sure you guys remember her, she works over at the Shell Station where the Subway is) at least 5 times now and I've chickened out and not called her every time. Last Monday she had a party at her house to play Cranium and while I've heard the game is great and I wanted to hang out with her but I didn't go for a few various reasons. I'm a loser. That's why no one hangs out with me anymore.

There are a few things I want to say about poker but I'll leave those thoughts for another post.

Tags: bcc, contacts, life, money

So Thursday I was able to get up and go to the Mall to go to Lenscrafters. I'm really picky and I browsed the selection of glasses and didn't find much that looked that good on me. The girl there Carla tried to give me unconditional positive regard but there weren't too many pairs that I felt looked good on me. There was one pair of Brooks Brothers glasses that didn't look too bad, but other than that I didn't see too much else interesting.

So I went for my eye exam, filled out the questionnaire and checked yes to where I would be interested in contacts. I had no clue when I had my last eye exam (or physical), but it was probably years ago. I remember when I as in 8th grade I broke my glasses at some point in school and my mom had to come to school to bring me my older older ones. I think when I was in 8th grade I had the same glasses that I have now. 6 or 7 years give or take. That's sick.

So we went through the eye exam and she noticed that I was interested in contacts. I am interested in them, I'm ugly enough with these glasses anyway, I wouldn't mind getting contacts and wearing them occasionally. At first she just handed me one of the lenses and was like, okay, there's a mirror behind you, put them on, and I was like uhhh umm and then she realized that I've never used contacts before. So we went to this table and she showed me them and I tried to put one in my eye but I couldn't get it in. She had to put them both in for me, and I was like wow. You could say I wasn't really sure what was happening. I was shocked that I could see without my glasses on. I'm really not sure what I was feeling. We went back to the area with the computerized eye chart and she went through a serious of different slides, and the last one was really far away but I could make it out pretty well except for a little blurry double vision. She told me that was 20/20 vision.

Wow. I've been dealing with poor eyesight for a while now and not being able to see stuff from far away and just dealt with it for years. I'm sure back when my glasses were new my vision was pretty good too, but this was pretty amazing. And I wasn't wearing glasses.

After we spent a few minutes or more putting them in I said, "can we take them out now"? How stupid that must have sounded. I could definitely see but it felt weird and I didn't know if I could drive home, but I kept them on and that was the eye exam and I was off.

There I was, being able to see without seeing through glasses. The cost of the exam thing was $219, which didn't surprise me too much but I'm not sure what that was for. I thought the exam was $85 without insurance, maybe the extra was for the contact fitting, she said that there were 2 free pairs of contacts with it so I was like, okay. I felt willing to pay $400-600 for glasses anyway.

So I paid for the exam and boom, there I am. I was going to get new glasses too but here I am, I can see, I just spent $219 on the exam and such, it's about 3:30 and I have work at 5 so I have to go home and get the contacts out too. I tried on a few other pairs of glasses but it was just weird. I could see. Really well.

Anyway, I bummed around for a bit, I could see well but my depth perception was off it felt and stuff up close was kind of blurryish. I went to my car and it wasn't until I was outside that it really hit me how much better I could see. I parked on the top lot at Sears next to the garage, and my car was pretty far away. There was a stop sign near the exit/entrance and I could see the lettering as clear as day from a mile away. It was amazing.

I made it home okay being careful, and going down Route 1 I could see like everything down the road. The stuff so far away was just crystal clear, it felt like I was watching HDTV. It was awesome. And going down the street I could read so many roadsigns so much easier. When I got to my house, I looked out my window and could see the speed limit sign across the road much clearly then I ever could before. It was awesome.

It took a while to get them out, and was frustrating which I sort of expected. But I made it to work on time and with my old glasses, stuff just wasn't as sharp.

Anyway, so I got them in today, it took me 3 different tries and a while to get it in but I did it. They feel okay, although I feel the right one more than the left one today which is strange as I thought it was the other way around yesterday. I went out driving and it was okay, everything was so crisp and clear though. I had to pick up the dog from the groomer and at the parking lot at Petsmart it was so amazing seing all the store signs from so unbelievably far away. Stuff up close, like my computer screen is a bit blurryish and at times I feel like I have a double vision-ish affect, but I'm getting used to it and I guess all of it is standard for wearing contacts for the first time. I played the 360 at CompUSA and it was a bit difficult to focus on the game as well.

I can only wear them for about 5 hours today so I have to take them out in a bit, It'll be strange really getting used to them and then putting my glasses on. This is probably the most exciting thing that has ever happened to me, I wished I thanked the eye doctor Michelle a bit more. I have a followup on Sunday and then I believe I'm getting the contacts that you can wear overnight after they come in at the office in a week.

Unfortunately, I really don't feel any prettier with them.

Tags: contacts, life