Anna's mom promised us both eye appointments and new glasses for our birthdays, but since Anna already has glasses (which I used every time I needed to drive somewhere, including assignments) she opted out and decided to have some weird mother/daughter shopping day one day while I was at work.  She chose a couple cheap articles at Goodwill instead.  So it was that last week we (I) went to see the eye doctor over in Alliance and he proceeded to drop yellow stuff into my eyes that was designed to congeal and crust up and ooze yellow fluid all day and ruin one's makeup.  And after a week during which I wondered if Anna's mom's offer was still good she suddenly yelled upstairs last night and asked me if I'd want to go in like an hour to pick out my glasses.  So I said "sure" and ate dinner and forgot my prescription, and we all drove to the place to pick out Anna's little brother's glasses.  I brought my script today and now I have my glasses.  It's crazy...it's like the world is new.  I can read signs a quarter mile away, as far as I can see.  They're brown (because we decided black was too severe and aggressive on me).  The frames are the color of Jim Beam, like cat glasses that don't turn up at the ends, and when I look in the mirror my eyes have this weird yellow, glossy cast to them like I'm afflicted with jaundice.  But I can see like you wouldn't believe.  I have assassin vision.  I haven't seen perfectly clearly out of both eyes at once since sometime in the early fall of 2007.  Can you believe that?