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I had my eyes tested today. The previous time, which was back in 2018, my shortsightedness had somewhat improved, which I had assumed was probably the beginning of longsightedness setting in and having a compensatory effect without yet being bad enough to need correction. I was therefore somewhat surprised to find that today my shortsightedness had gotten worse again, and although there is now also longsightedness on my prescription, it's mild enough that I can just ignore it for now. Slightly annoyingly I am now back to being short-sighted enough that I can't get the really cheap lenses even though I don't care in the least about how thick they are, but they're still a lot cheaper than varifocals would be. New glasses should arrive in a couple of weeks, although I'm not sure they'll be all that noticeably different from the old ones from the outside... Though I've also finally gotten round to ordering some prescription sunglasses, which I've been meaning to do for ages, and just keep forgetting. Place bets now on how long I manage to keep them without losing them....
Another new thing on my face is my increasingly ridiculous moustache, which has now started to garner spontaneous compliments, much to my delight. There is definitely scope for it to become more ridiculous with another couple of months of growth, and some stronger wax, but it's coming along quite nicely.
Also just about visible in that picture is a new labret stud, as somehow despite about fifteen years with no jewellry in it, the old hole still hadn't completely closed up, and with a bit of gentle coaxing I was able to get it open again. Why yes, I am rather enjoying the freedom of not having to worry about looking like a sensible professional adult for a while :)
Another new thing on my face is my increasingly ridiculous moustache, which has now started to garner spontaneous compliments, much to my delight. There is definitely scope for it to become more ridiculous with another couple of months of growth, and some stronger wax, but it's coming along quite nicely.
Also just about visible in that picture is a new labret stud, as somehow despite about fifteen years with no jewellry in it, the old hole still hadn't completely closed up, and with a bit of gentle coaxing I was able to get it open again. Why yes, I am rather enjoying the freedom of not having to worry about looking like a sensible professional adult for a while :)
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Date: 2024-05-20 10:24 pm (UTC)From:no subject
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Date: 2024-05-21 08:16 am (UTC)From:I've had to wear varifocals for several years now, covering an exciting combination of presbyopia, astigmatism and high degree myopia. (Also I have glaucoma and possibly the beginnings of cataracts.) I'm just resigned to having to spend several hundred pounds every couple of years in order to see moderately well. Annoyingly, I'm not *quite* blind enough to get a discount on my lenses, though at least the glaucoma means I get free eye tests.
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Date: 2024-05-21 02:36 pm (UTC)From:Also the definition of "sensible professional" is changing; maybe you won't have to worry about the labret in a couple of years.
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Date: 2024-05-22 01:01 pm (UTC)From:Yeah, certainly day to day at my current level I can get away with it, and probably could even at interviews. It's been when I've been thinking about going for more senior management posts that I've felt the need to look a bit more polished. And to be honest, even if I do keep this side of my career going in order to support myself alongside either academia or priesthood or some combination thereof, I'm going to want to keep it relatively low stress, and therefore not climb any higher up the pole, so I expect I'm just going to be able to keep looking a bit more authentically eccentric.
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Date: 2024-05-21 07:49 pm (UTC)From:You big disgrace
Waving your labret all over the place
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Date: 2024-05-22 01:01 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2024-05-22 11:24 am (UTC)From:And yay! for the stud still fitting.
My eyes like to regularly bounce between two different prescriptions for the short-sightedness (the age-related long sightedness just keeps getting slowly worse). The first time it happened the optometrist was slightly surprised and wanted to keep a closer eye (um… you know what I mean) on me for a bit but now it’s just a known ludys-eyes-weirdness
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Date: 2024-05-22 01:03 pm (UTC)From:I'm sure the age-related long-sightedness will catch up with me eventually, but it's nice to be able to ignore it a while longer.