It turns out that once you have had a corneal abrasion, they are susceptible to re-abrading for about a year without you actually poking yourself in the eye violently.

I blinked wrong and reopened the motherfucker. It's not AS bad, but still. I barely made it through today (at least I still have the drops.) I think I'm going to have to take tomorrow off, because staring at my screen for any length of time hurts, which makes my eye tear, which makes it hurt more and I was generally useless. Another funfilled day of staring at the ceiling. I really HOPE this doesn't take 3 days to heal this time.

Fuck.

Don't blink, sarameg. Don't even blink.

(whut?)

Poor sarameg! How do you blink wrong? No, don't tell me, I'll start doing it. You should get an eyepatch and just keep your eye closed. And say Arrrrr a lot.

Ouch, sara. I wish you speedy healing.

I just learnt that fleshbot has been sold.

Good god, it's hideous now. And I say that as someone who wholeheartedly despises the gawker re-design. This is worse. It looks like a trashy porn site. And Lux isn't trashy. I'll kinda miss those naked kids. But I don't want to work out how to navigate that.

OMG, I just remembered the rope course we did at my now defunct MI employer. There was one guy who was stunningly bad. Like, he must have been doing it on purpose level of bad. So everyone mocked him. So worth flying 3000 miles for team building exercises so we could dump shit on him.

We also did team-building through improv.

Who the FUCK think improv builds good business team skills? Good god, the sniping and the backstabbing and shit that improv got me used to...oh.

Goddamnit, sara. I'm sorry. If you need me to do anything for you tomorrow, let me know.

oh OW, sara!! I'm around all week if you need anything.

It's comically, painfully ridiculous. I'll be fine. Just bored. I do have to call in for a couple meetings. My screen tolerance is much better than last time, but I just can't look at a screen for more that a few seconds. I mean, this time I can drive.

You know those blinks when you eye is sealed tight and there is actually a bit of pressure pop when you open the lid (often when you wake up or if you've screwed your eyes tight shut)? Apparently that was sufficient to pull the scarred tissue open.

Maria, I am quite relieved on your behalf.

I don't want to send you away, sara, but should you be at a computer right now? Or will you go nuts if you aren't?

Ok, mr. flea has spent at least 4 hours on the phone with our mortgage company in the last 2 weeks, trying to get them to fix their error of paying $4000 from our escrow account to a random GA county we've never even been to; this error has made them raise our payment by 30% to "refill" the escrow account. Their current solution is for us to pay them extra now, and they'll cut us a check for a refund of the extra we pay. Sometime. Possibly in May. Any thoughts on how we can escalate beyond the phone bank manager? It's US Bank. I hate them so much.

I look at the screen with only one eye. In bursts and I look away before there is any strain. I can blather but can't really do any work because that involves being able to study output. Conversation is different than analysis.