This Ought to be Interesting.

Friday night in bed my left eye started to hurt, but I was mostly asleep so I didn't think much of it. When I woke up on Saturday my eyelid was a bit swollen, but not so badly that I couldn't live with it. It's Tuesday morning now and the eye is swollen shut. It leaked some kind of goo all night, (I was asleep though, and didn't think much of it,) which acted as some sort of cement. I spent a half an hour when I got up today with a warm, wet cloth trying to dissolve the glue and get the eye open only to find, when finally I'd freed the lids, that the swelling is going to keep it shut anyway. (I look like Boom Boom Mancini.) Drat. Plus it feels like someone's constantly crushing out a cigarette in my eye, (or what I imagine that would feel like). Double drat.

So my depth-perception is minimal and so is my vision past my nose on my left side. At least I'm off work today, except that that means that I'm watching (or half-watching) the Wonton. He doesn't seem to have noticed my difficutly yet, (I wondered if it'd scare him,) but I expect that he will the first time I bang him into something. I prefer to spend these days alone with him reading and writing (no 'rithmatic!) but today is looking very much like a movie day. It's time for him to see The Godfather anyway.

And yes, I've been to the doctor; he mostly just shrugged.

Some random observations (if that 's a concept you're comfortable with):

**Over the Rhine's "Bothered" moves me.

**Only two more days until Sushi Day.

**It was fun to watch the Yankees come back and beat the Mets in the bottom of the ninth Sunday night, but they're still not very good right now.

**This is funny.

**"Any act of pure perception is a feat, and if you don't believe it, try it sometime." From All the King's Men, by Robert Penn Warren, (which I can't quite get into).