Let me be as vague as possible.

Tomorrow I have my 6-month review.

I haven't actually been in my job for six months.  And my 3-month review was about a month ago.

Anyway, I was really worried about my review because something happened on Monday that made me fear for my job.  No, I don't think I would necessarily get fired (as a newbie) for what happened, but it still made me afraid that it would be this black mark on my record that might affect my future.  (Not that I'm terribly keen on having much of a future in this job.  But I'm also not keen on being canned.)

I Love Louis

I've been feeling a lot worse the last few weeks, so I decided to take it easy today.

I did this by eating a cookie and watching a billion Louis Theroux videos on the internet.

I've watched a few of his documentaries before, but today I went on a total binge.  It's amazing to me how he's able to get so much honesty out of people and push their buttons to a point where, I think, another person would get punched in the face.  And yeah, the skinheads looked like they were pretty close, but somehow he survives to document another weird cultural phenomenon.

I guess if you're a slightly nerdy-looking English dude (with an accent, of course), people are less likely to want to hurt you.

I think I know what I'm doing with the rest of my weekend.  

Speaking of My Day ...

All right, let's talk about that.

I got to work today and discovered that the internet was down.  We couldn't send or receive email, couldn't access any databases, and if someone called we were basically SOL and would have to tell them we couldn't do anything for them.

We all cleaned our desks for an hour and a half.

My First Foray

My First Foray
Into Rivet and Sway
Just Happened Today.


Too bad it couldn't have been oh-so poetic like those first three lines.

I tried a pair of sunglasses just before they added a whole bunch more styles.  They only had a few at the time, so I tried two of them.  I liked one, and all my friends liked it too.  So I bought it, as well as the pink Punchlines.

Alas.  Alas!  The sunglasses are horrible.  The pink Punchlines are fantastic, but the sunglasses are just the opposite of fantastic.  Wretchedly awful. 

I need a pair of big sunglasses to fight against my recent "oh hey sun allergy thing" that likes to afflict my hands and cheeks and nose.  I thought I could at least cover up my cheeks with some big-ass sunglasses.  Right?  The testers looked great, everyone gave the thumbs-up, and I thought they would be perfect.  They were a sort of tortoise-y red color, and red is the color of glasses.  (Seriously.  ANYONE can look good in red glasses.)

I don't know if it was the gradient lenses--I hadn't realized that you didn't get gradients if you need Rx lenses--or a poor memory of the color of the frames.  The frames I received today were black.  The sides were red, and indeed if you shine a light through the back of the frame, they're red as can be, but my face does not (yet) emit light.  So they just look flat black, and then the non-gradient lenses also look dark as dark can be.  With my whiter-than-white skin, that just leads to the sunglasses going OMNOMNOM on my face. 

So I need to go back to the drawing board.  Rivet & Sway swears they have a 60 day policy for returns, and I already know I hate these.  So I'm going to see what my options are.  Maybe try more frames and see if there's one that really works.  And I'll be sure to only go for things that look light.  They have some in a color called "grapefruit," so I may try those and see what happens.  And you can't go wrong with "tortoise." 

I still want red, though.  :/

I may be a bad person.

I'm going to the eye doctor tomorrow.

I don't think there's any change to my sight (not that I've noticed) and I'm not having any particular eye troubles. I used to have such trouble with blepharitis/huge-ass styes and random conjunctivitis borne of nothing more than my shoddy immune system. My eye would be blood red one day, and two days later it would be fine. My eyelids would bubble up like tortillas on a griddle from age 17-19. It was pretty awful.

Now I sometimes get little, clear bubbles on the rim of an eyelid. I pop them and they go away. The end. Dunno what changed, but I'm glad it did.

So I haven't been to any kind of eye specialist at all in a long time. Haven't had any issues with anything in a long time. The last time I thought I had a vision change, it went away within about a week. I think they were just dry.

I haven't been to the eye doctor in about 11 years.

I got a copy of my prescription when I went off to Japan in 2007, and at that time I think my prescription was kind of old. The eye doctor recommended I get an exam. I didn't. And I used the information on that prescription to get glasses and glasses and glasses and glasses and glasses.

I finally decided to make some purchases on Rivet & Sway, but I cannot find this ancient prescription anywhere. So I am going to the eye doctor to get a new one. And I figure it's good to get a "fresh" prescription before I make a significant purchase on eyeglasses. $30 isn't much to spend on glasses that might or might not be 100% accurate.

I am, I admit, a little worried though ... getting a brand new prescription and trying them out on new glasses for the very first time scares me. I almost want to get a pair of $30 Zennis to make sure the prescription doesn't make my brain hurt.

With any luck it'll be exactly the same. That would be nice.

Sweet, this is what I get for not realizing that my post was done in HTML mode. WALL OF TEXT YOU ARE NOW BROKENNNNNNN

Rivet and Sway, Take 2

They tried to dissuade me from ordering the sunglasses for try-on because they're so big compared to my narrow face, but come on. We all know that giant sunglasses make you look famous and important.

Okay, did you ever see a celebrity wearing tiny little spectacle-style sunnies? I don't think so. Alien eyes is the way to go. Fame and fortune and paparazzi will follow.

Vacations

I don't think I can afford to take a vacation anymore, but maybe sometime this year I'll blow my 40 hours of PTO and go somewhere nice.

My options right now are these:

In Honor of April Fool's Day

There's a stupid little ice breaker game called Two Truths and a Lie.  The point of the game is to tell those three pieces of information, and then other people are supposed to guess which one is the lie. 

Some people play this game stupidly--they make the lie really obvious by giving two mundane pieces of information and then a wild and crazy story that couldn't possibly be true.  Sometimes people play it smart and use a really mundane thing for the lie, which is sort of how you should do it.  It works well that way as long as your lie and one of your truths are really boring, because you trick people into thinking you're doing the aforementioned stupid thing.

I'm going to do one better--I'm going to give you three anecdotes from my weekend.