Do you wear glasses?

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I was going for "pretentious literary fop," but people just kept comparing me to Harry Potter.

The wife says that I look fine with them on, so I guess that's all that counts. I still don't wear them at work or when I play. It kinda helps the stage anxiety when I can't see the audience.

Not being able to read the mile markers was my first clue too, jaymc.

i've been wearing reading glasses for about 15 yrs now. a few weeks ago i started getting headaches because my glasses felt too tight on my head, so i went to Lenscrafters to get them adjusted, and the dude broke my frames! he tried getting out of it by saying they weren't usually held responsible for broken glasses during readjustments, but they decided to replace them. so i get new frames and it's been almost 2-3 weeks since i stopped wearing my glasses so i could get my new ones. i used to go 30minutes at the computer without my glasses and i'd get killer headaches. now i go all day without wearing them and i'm pretty much fine. What the Fuck?!

I've heard of this happening in older people quite a bit, actually. And come to think of it, it's mostly been women. Maybe menopause sharpens the senses?

Sigh, not I.

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do you know how laser surgery works? apparently they scrape the flesh off your eyball to make the focal length correct. (i'm unclear how this works for farsightedness.) i'm nearsighted enough that i'd have to have a really thick eyeball membrane for them to consider it feasible. icky!

Oh bollocks. 12 years ago I lost my glasses at a Carter USM gig, and somehow I have repeated the experience tonight. I'm wearing contacts, but they suck. Oh somebody give me some glasses, please.

Haha, how was Carter anyway? Did you take over Tom E's ticket?

Yeah I did. It was great, until I lost my vision! All that matters is I was up the front when they played After The Watershed.

i just got glasses! now i look like velma from scooby doo.

I thought I wanted new glasses of the rimless kind, but it turns out they look pretty dumb?

(I didn't actually get them, just tried on some frames)

i look like velma from scooby doo.

see now this is hot.

i am a glasses-wearer, i guess. it's been a strange transition. having never worn them for my first 33 years, i now can't even look at a computer screen without them. i've even started to forget that i'm wearing them, at least until they fog up (supernerdy feeling)

laurel helped me pick them out. she called the look "german architect," but no - i'm pure velma.

But do you have orange sweaters?

i have one.

cool, lauren!

i need laurel to help pick glasses out for me too i think
i also need to go to eye doctor

picking out frames = awesome. wearing them, not so much. i keep tripping because it looks like the floor is slanting

i think i have some fun astigmatism going on here ow
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Getting glasses for Lauren was so fun! Of course she already had a stack of ingeniously rad frames to choose from, I just told her which ones I liked best. Then *I* tried on a bunch of frames but didn't buy any. u_u

can you get glasses/contacts just for night time? My vision is great in the day but everything gets blurry at night , esp when driving.

A full-time glasses wearer here, since age 10. I also wear contacts sometimes. My right eye is -6.50, and my left is -6.25. Without some kind of corrective lenses, anything farther than six inches away is a total blur. I like wearing my glasses, and it's a good thing I do being as blind as I am.

I wore a broken pair today because my brother accidentally picked up my contact lens case and it was my last pair of lenses. they're 6 years old and extremely oily, bent, and turning green on the nose guards