So, went to the eye doc this morning, and mentioned I’d been having some trouble seeing clearly. He took a look, and it turns out while my right eye is still 20/20 with glasses, my left eye’s gotten quite a bit worse due to an increase in astigmatism. Doc thinks that it’s due to the adema, and may still heal up to normal, but some correction may be necessary. Bleah.
Basically, though, things are still getting better – weaning off the eyedrops over the next two weeks, next followup’s in a month, so I’ll find out more then.
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On an unrelated note, I watched Biden and Kerry’s speeches from the DNC tonight, and they were both impassioned, articulate, and moving. Kerry’s was better than Biden’s IMO, but I’m looking forward to Obama tomorrow night. More, I’m actually looking forward to McCain next week, and seeing how the media reacts to them side by side. Thing is, I really feel like the Dems have traction on EVERYTHING. There will always be die-hard right-wing fucktards who are unable/unwilling to think rationally about anything, but aside from those lunatic douchebags, the things that are “calls to arms” are all there for the Dems. Fight against an unjust war – rail against a failing economy – fight for energy independence – restore America’s dignity and influence in the world — these are things that McCain can’t even marginally talk about with any passion or involvement, or without any blatant hypocrisy.
Seeing him try to rouse the base and placate the masses when he can barely figure out what HE believes in from moment-to-moment, I’m sure the media will go completely apeshit for him if he simply doesn’t forget his own name, or the name of the town he’s in at the time. But fuck them – peoples lives are so fucked up with the housing crisis, failing banks, rising health care costs – it’s REAL now for most people – the stuff that was once abstract nonsense. The idiot right wingers only give a shit about their ideology until they need someone to save them from it. When it comes down to the issues – at this point ANY issue – I can’t think of a single thing where McCain’s even marginally in the right in any rational analysis, and I can’t think of a single thing that I genuinely believe he believes in other than his own history as a POW and that it should protect him from all criticism.
It’ll be interesting to watch. I know the election will be relatively close – the American people as a whole are complete fucking morons. But this should be as much of a landslide as you can get in the modern, disengaged, apathetic world. I hope it’s a fucking rout.
I am so nervous. So very nervous.
Wow. If I had any faith in the collective common sense of the American people, I’d predict an Obama landslide – as is, I’ll be hiding under a rock until someone tells me it’s safe to come out.
Glad to hear your eyes are perking up.
obama should win even accounting for your “25% of people are crazy” theory.
…then again kerry won and he still lost…
The 25% was the number of people who are *so* batshit crazy that if Bush told them to jump off a cliff into a pile of vinegar-soaked razorblades, they’d do it. By most polling standards, there’s maybe a 5% difference in standing right now between Obama and McCain – which indicates to me that while 25% of the people are zealots to the point of insantiy, there’s still almost another 20% that is stupid to the point where it beggars belief.