now that's entertainment!
Sep. 14th, 2003 07:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
verbminxI think I mentioned earlier this week that I sent your replies to the "Will someone please give my mom a realistic sample of urban rents around the country?" to the woman herself, who was snotty at first but eventually listened. She'd written out an ultra-snide reply, which I told her I didn't want to see, and then we had a few go-rounds and straightened out some of her misconceptions and things were actually fine. So imagine my surprise when the aforementioned snotty email arrived in my mailbox today! I fired off three cranky replies, then went outside to complain at her for sending it to me at all and warn her of pissy return email. She went, "I didn't send you that email! We talked about it, it's OK now!" and I was like, "Yeah, we talked about it, which is why I was really pissed off when I read it - I thought this stuff was all settled." So it turns out that she sent it by accident. & it turns out that I'm relieved, because we had that fight earlier this week and I was not interested in having it again.
Last night was interesting; I was up too late. At one point I saw a fruit fly buzzing around my monitor and tried, unsuccessfully, to trap or kill it. A few minutes later it flew RIGHT INTO MY EYE. My lid slammed shut reflexively and I assumed that the fly got away, but my eye was itching and watering for a good hour afterwards, and nothing seemed to help. (I made a joke to a friend that I was having "an Aeon Flux moment" - remember when she trapped the fly between her eyelashes in the opening montage?) I went to the bathroom, I rinsed my eye as thoroughly as possible by pulling back the lid and holding a cupped hand full of water to it while I blinked, I put in drops, I pulled back the lids and looked for foreign objects, etc. Finally, I was in bed reading and getting ready to go to sleep, when the itching and the sensation of having something in my eye was too much for me and I started rubbing it again... this time, with results. The tiny crumpled body of a fruit fly. Disc-shaped, by this point, and maybe 3mm across.
Augh! Dead bug in my eye! Dead bug in my eye!
I went back into the bathroom, rinsed with water - still itchy. Used my mother's saline drops - still itchy. Finally went to my purse and rooted out my own bottle of Visine Advanced Relief - and ahhh, it was, sweet soothing relief, finally allowing me to get some rest.
and what am I doing today? Uh, well, working on a knitted mouse for that charity mouse-a-thon I mentioned. I'm about 1/2 done with the first one, made in charcoal heather yarn. Photos forthcoming maybe.
(Suppose I'd better do some packing, too.)
Last night was interesting; I was up too late. At one point I saw a fruit fly buzzing around my monitor and tried, unsuccessfully, to trap or kill it. A few minutes later it flew RIGHT INTO MY EYE. My lid slammed shut reflexively and I assumed that the fly got away, but my eye was itching and watering for a good hour afterwards, and nothing seemed to help. (I made a joke to a friend that I was having "an Aeon Flux moment" - remember when she trapped the fly between her eyelashes in the opening montage?) I went to the bathroom, I rinsed my eye as thoroughly as possible by pulling back the lid and holding a cupped hand full of water to it while I blinked, I put in drops, I pulled back the lids and looked for foreign objects, etc. Finally, I was in bed reading and getting ready to go to sleep, when the itching and the sensation of having something in my eye was too much for me and I started rubbing it again... this time, with results. The tiny crumpled body of a fruit fly. Disc-shaped, by this point, and maybe 3mm across.
Augh! Dead bug in my eye! Dead bug in my eye!
I went back into the bathroom, rinsed with water - still itchy. Used my mother's saline drops - still itchy. Finally went to my purse and rooted out my own bottle of Visine Advanced Relief - and ahhh, it was, sweet soothing relief, finally allowing me to get some rest.
and what am I doing today? Uh, well, working on a knitted mouse for that charity mouse-a-thon I mentioned. I'm about 1/2 done with the first one, made in charcoal heather yarn. Photos forthcoming maybe.
(Suppose I'd better do some packing, too.)
