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Girls don't make passes



The one thing that I wanted to do this summer with the "extra" money I received for teaching was to upgrade the old eyes. It's been 5 or 6 years since my last exam, and the prescription on my sunglasses was even older (and more fishbowl-inducing) than the one on my normal glasses.

So, Wednesday was Lenscrafters Day--my stepmom and I spent roughly 4 hours within the sphere of influence of the Crafters, from eye exam to trying on some of the ugliest things I've ever seen to the few minutes I spent seriously contemplating my options. The result is that I'm bespectacled much more trendily than I was last week, and I won't be getting headaches on the road when I switch over to shades. My eyes thank me.

my old glasses

These are the old ones, and when I say old, I mean it. When the finish starts to wear off, and the lenses start to permanently tint from age, if you're me, that apparently means that you have to wait three years for the next pair.

my new glasses

These will take a little while, even though they have the advantage of making my face look tanner. I'm still not quite used to the spaces where I no longer have lens to look through, and I still smirk a little at the trendiness of them, but I think they'll do all right. I didn't succumb to the temptation of glare resistant lenses, though, partly because I would have had to wait an extra 2-3 weeks, because I would have paid another $40 for the privilege, and mostly because I've heard that you can scratch such lenses just by thinking about them funny.

In other news, this weekend is the local Bix Fest, which includes all the jazz you could ever want to hear, as well as one of the best road races in the country. I've mostly been helping my mom get ready to sell her place--flyers, data sheets, etc.--and trying to do a little writing in those spare moments. I'll be here for another week or so and then it's the road once more.

Comments

Very smart! I like the sleek, sophisticated, intellectual-but-not-pompous look of the new glasses. And you're right about the glare stuff--MsJ tried it once, and it just peeled off.

Now, about the laser option...

Looking quite snappy, I must say.

Nice specs, playa!

Very nice. I don't think they're too trendy at all. Maybe if they were hexagonal or octagonal, but if you think about it, that rectangular shape has been around a long time -- look at old reading glasses, half-specs.

Well, they did have to talk me out of star-shaped frames and the Transitions lenses that turned from clear to purple once I walked outside. Ultimately, I was persuaded by the facts that (a) I don't play piano, and (b) my name isn't Elton John.