Eyes Wide Open (& Still Can't See)

Its Friday - yay!  And I am taking off work a little early this afternoon, which makes it even better.   (And I'm going to KC for a concert tomorrow, but I believe we've already covered that!) However, I do have some work to accomplish today before I leave, and apparently NONE of my three pairs of reading glasses are here at work.  Crap.

I've had 20/20 vision my entire life, although it has been almost two since my last eye exam.  But I've needed to use reading glasses for the last several years... the optometrist says apparently I am a "slow focuser" -- (yeah, yeah, I know. This phrase could have several interpretations... )  However, in this case it means that my eyes have a hard time adjusting when going back and forth from paperwork to the computer screen, etc.  So I tend to get eye strain, headaches, etc. and just do much better with a pair of non-prescription readers.

In the last couple of years I've noticed I've had to start holding the small-print items further away from my face in order to see them, if I don' t have my reading glasses handy.   And of course I also have a hard time keeping track of my glasses (case in point, today)... maybe I should get one of those cords to put them on and wear them around my neck?  Boy, I'll be quite a date for someone at some point, pulling those reading glasses out of my purse to look at the menu.  Nice, huh!?  Way to focus on the positive, I know. 

Ok, back to work, I've seriously considered running over to Target and grabbing another pair for this morning, but I'm just gonna tough it out, only a couple hours left and I'm done for the weekend!

Go Ahead, Make My Day

I spotted a reference to one of my favorite annual lists on MSNBC a couple of mornings ago, “Wear a wristwatch? Use e-mail? Not for Class of ‘14” – it’s the Beloit College Mindset List, providing readers the cultural pulse of this year’s incoming college freshmen. And yes, I again felt OLD (almost 40 – make that ANCIENT!) as I read many of the things… here were a few of my favorites.

For this year’s incoming college freshmen:

1. Clint Eastwood is better known as a sensitive director than as Dirty Harry.
2. Leno and Letterman have always been trading insults on opposing networks.
3. Computers have never lacked a CD-ROM disk drive.
4. Benny Hill, Sam Kinison, Sam Walton and Tony Perkins have always been dead.
5. Email is just too slow, and they seldom if ever use snail mail.
6. “Go West, Young College Grad” has always implied “and don’t stop until you get to Asia… and learn Chinese along the way.”
7. They never twisted the coiled handset wire aimlessly around their wrist while chatting on their phone.
8. Fergie is a pop singer, not a princess.
9. Unless they found one in their grandparents’ closet, they have never seen a carousel of Kodachrome slides.
10. Colorful lapel ribbons have always been worn to indicate support for a cause.
11. Russians and Americans have always been living together in space.
12. Nirvana is on the classic oldies station.
13. Rock bands have always played at presidential inaugural parties.
14. Beethoven has always been a dog.
15. Having hundred of cable channels but nothing to watch has always been routine.
16. The Post Office has always been going broke.

Take a look at the full list, and let me know - what were some of your favorites?