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i went to the optometrist to get my eyes checked last night. since about october last year i've been getting headaches in the afternoon, that go away within an hour of finishing work. i kinda thought it was just that i hated tech support, but i've been getting them since i started newjob too.
i'd been putting off getting my eyes checked out for ages, mainly because i hate eye drops. i hate putting eye drops in almost as much as i hate going to the dentist. what can i say, i have weird face issues. but yesterday at lunch time i was struggling to focus on things. in fact trying to do so was making me feel dizzy. so i bit the bullet and made an appointment.
then i started stressing because i hadn't plucked my eyebrows and i was all "what if he's really hot and all that's standing in the way of me marrying a doctor is my feral eyebrows?" but as it turned out i had nothing to worry about because her eyebrows were worse than mine.
so anyway, all the normal read the letters on the board tests were good. but then she made me do this test i've never seen before. she covered one eye [with a patch. i said "do people normally make pirate jokes right about now?" and she was like "umm. no"] and with the other i had to look at this white circle of light with a black spot in the centre. then every few seconds it would flash a bit, and when it did i had to click the buzzer.
apparently i sucked at that shit, and didn't click when i should've, because i failed for both eyes. i have to go back and do it again next week to see if i get the same results. i have no idea what happens if i fail again. i don't even know what the test is, or what it measures. any ideas?
she said she thinks my headaches are coming from having my screen too high, so today i put it down so it sits on my desk and i have to look down on it. it feels so much more comfortable on my neck to be able look up at the screen, but i guess that makes my eyes do too much work. we'll see how it all goes.
in other news:
-i miss being able to look at facebook during the day.  i'll die if they block livejournal
-i left my headphones at work yesterday, and therefore had to endure two hours of the publics on my way home yesterday, and in today. fuck people are annoying. like the guy who had his music on his mobile playing on speaker, so it was all loud and tinny and shit. or the girl who snored from kingsgrove to green square. or the other girl who had a fight while calling her mum about who would have to back the car out of the driveway at home.
-don't forget to watch summer heights high tonight on the abc. "but sir. he's a ranga!" has already become an office catch phrase around these parts.