Huh. Randy Quaid is a douchebag. Who knew?

I did. He sued Focus Features for $13 million because they "tricked him" into being in Brokeback Mountain by misrepresenting it as an art house movie that probably wouldn't be seen by many people. After all, who wouldn't have predicted that an indie flick about gay cowboys in love would rake in $200 million at the box office?

Exciting! Did you wear glasses all the time? I ask because I don't necessarily picture you wearing glasses, but I could just be on crack.

I do wear them all the time (no contacts), but I also never remember if someone else wears glasses. Someone was bitching at me last week that this will really change my "look" (that person is also insane) but I don't think that many people will notice that I don't wear them anymore.

Interesting analysis of the WWII-era Minnesota Starvation Study, thought of it in context of our Pollen-inspired discussion of the other day:

I love Junkfood Science. Sandy kicks serious ass.

I'm home from work with both a stomach-ick-type thing AND a migraine. Unfair! As a result, I have about a thousand different drugs in my body right now.

Or, okay, maybe just 4. But that's still a lot.

I really want the Lasik surgery. But I don't know if it would be possible to correct my vision and I can't really justify it unless insurance paid.

I was buying one pair of glasses every year at around $300 pop--which weren't covered by insurance. We used a flex spending plan for the LASIK, which was $2K. After 10 years without needing glasses (or prescription sunglasses or contacts) I think I'm ahead.

The consults to tell if you're a candidate should be free.

I do wear them all the time (no contacts), but I also never remember if someone else wears glasses.

Huh! I'm sure I will notice when I see you. But then, I'm also the person who notices people's haircuts a week later....

I knew Randy Quaid was a dick for the same reason Matt did. I think I also read something else about him acting batshit insane in another instance.

I was buying one pair of glasses every year at around $300 pop--which weren't covered by insurance. We used a flex spending plan for the LASIK, which was $2K. After 10 years without needing glasses (or prescription sunglasses or contacts) I think I'm ahead.

Yeah, I don't buy glasses every year, but it's still a financially sound decision -- if I won't need glasses again before I'm in my 50s. I assume I'd need to get glasses again around the time my parents went to bifocals, right?

lisa, how bad is your vision? Even if it's reallllly bad (I'm a -13!) there are other things you can get besides lasik. Though they're even more expensive, which doesn't solve your other problem. :)

I've had good and bad experiences in Sephora. Usually they ignore me (or eye me suspiciously), but I had a really good experience one time with a gayboy in Georgetown who ran all over the store putting lipgloss on his hand to find me just the right color.

I need to remember to buy glasses every year, because they are covered mostly by insurance. But I forget because I only wear them for close work.

I stand behind my suggestion that $70 in unappealing tights is better than having your LEG EXPLODE.

The tights look just fine. They're just expensive as hell (the ones that were probably the right constriction were $150). Oh, and putting them on was tiring and very painful. I see the doc Friday. I hope he'll have a fixy thing.

I don't go in there any more. The salespeople are either mean to me, or seem to consciously avoid me.

Maybe it's because they're French--where it's not so much "the customer is always right" but rather "why are you bothering me?"

I've never had a problem at Sephora, but I usually tell most sales people to leave me alone so I might not be the best judge of service.