Holli called that squick "no touchy my eyeball."

He touched your eye???????

I sorta' had that squick once, but have since totally lost it.

Oh, and your eyes are numb when he touches them so you don't really feel it.

Yeah, I did the touchy eye thing, and if you can deal with not thinking about it, it's way better than the puff of air. It's just, hey, blue light VERY VERY CLOSE to me. That's what the yellow dye is for. It also makes you feel numb and puffy momentarily.

Also I did the weird peripheral vision test where you click every time you see a dot, which makes me all paranoid. Well, more paranoid than the baseline state of Liese.

But I have lots of glaucoma in the family, including my grandmother who was misdiagnosed originally and essentially went blind from it, so I am happy to do all the tests. And in fact, although I'm typically high normal on the pressure test, this time I was normal normal. So yay!

HATE the clicky test.

Ha! That dot chasing made me paranoid. I wanted to do it over because I thought I could do it better!

I too get paranoid by the clicky test.

But I need a diabetic eye exam, which means dilated eyes and a very bright light shown in them for 57 kabillion hours. ( maybe 30 to 45 minutes) it makes me very ill feeling

True! He always says in a calm reassuring voice, "You did just fine." And I always think, "Show me the printout! I bet I had false positives! What percentage is an acceptable miss rate? Where is my blind spot? Give me the damn paper!"

But I say, mildly, "Oh, good."

Yeah, pretty much.

You guys are certifiable.

::aims antenna at their unprotected-by-tinfoil heads::

I do. We were running late getting out the door (missed the school bus, so Mother was driving us in), and she was watching it on the TV in the kitchen. They'd watched every shuttle launch, and had a picture of a shuttle on the dining room wall.

I remember this very distinctly. Nick and I were leaving French on our way to Earth Science when Robbie came up to us and said "oh my god, you guys, the Challenger blew up." We said "whatever, you're full of it" and went to class. And there was Mr. Hicks with the TV showing it over and over. I remember turning around to look at Nick and he had a pencil that he mimed a launch and then made an explosive sound. but not in a mocking way, in a "holy shit, this couldn't have happened way".

My eldest sister just called and asked me to borrow money. WTF? Seriously. This woman is nearly 50 years old, her husband makes decent money, her daughter and son in law are living with them (and working as well). Why can't these people (who only have a $400 a month house payment) keep their fucking electricity on without asking me for loans???

I don't mean to judge, but this isn't the sister that's the mom of the nephew/stripper mom?

it is cool to have a President that I do want to listen to.

yeah, I pretty much didn't watch the news with any regularity for the Bush years. I happily watch CNN in the mornings.

I once took out a *friend's* contacts when she was drunk

I had to do that more than once in college, sadly.