singforever.ca 3.0

Just today I started feeling sick.  David was sick earlier in the week so it’s not that much of a surprise.  As the day went on, it got gradually worse with sneezing and headaches.

And for some reason I decided that it was a good idea to pick up my new glasses — new frames and lenses.  Bad decision… now I definitely have a headache more due to the change in prescription.  Apparently my prescription has lowered since 5 years ago.  Result is that everything looks a lot more vibrant and sharp at mid to close distance, the contrast is really high, and I feel like I’m always cross-eyed.

I wanted to switch back to my old pair … such a temptation but it’s not a good idea to keep switching back and forth.

Also, I was typing on Peter’s laptop in QWERTY and it was sooo hard.  I had to look at almost every key as I typed.  I’m not amazing at Dvorak quite yet, but I’ve started to forget QWERTY (unless it’s with my thumbs on my BlackBerry).  What a strange feeling to have started to forget something I’ve spent the last decade or more perfecting (cue spiritual analogy of your choice).

And none of this is even real pain.

Ask this question to a friend this week: “would you rather a life full of meaning yet the possibility of much pain, or a life that is without pain but also without meaning?”

See how they respond.

My hunch is that most people are indeed experiencing pain while having no meaning in their lives.  The short end of the stick eh?

I was intending on posting another photo to commemorate my wonderful day, but instead I cap it off with this one instead.

I am in tons of fun pain on my right shoulder.  Somehow when I fell off the GT Snoracer with Peter Onate behind me, we both fell really awkwardly and I’m nursing a very sore and likely bruised shoulder.  At the end of it all, I told the friends, I can hug, but I cannot point straight.  It’s painful.  So I have a bag of frozen peas wrapped up under the towel, and yes, a tie-down strap to keep it tight.  Yes, the strap has my name on it.  I label those things, because they got lost so easily!  Waking up tomorrow morning will be fun.  Oh…… walking to school with my bag will be fun.

Oh and my jaw seems like it shifted as well.  The right side.  But hey, I’m not complaining, it was a lot of fun!  Go tobogganing before winter ends.

And fyi, in my eyes, spring has already begun.  Yesterday I saw a mallard duck on Carleton campus by the Unicentre.  Beautiful green-headed male mallard.  with a few dull looking female mallards.  Apparently the mallards are coloured like peacocks; the males are really colourful to attract the females.  Whatever happened to the human race? We’ve got it all the other way around.

Dang, I don’t want to go to bed.  It’s going to be so painful.  And I don’t really want today to end… it was a good day.