holy eyesight batman

After a few months of squinting at the blackboard, I finally made an appointment with an optometrist. While there, I was pretty amazed at how twisting all sorts of knobs and flipping switches could make my vision change so rapidly I thought I was on LSD or something. I seriously almost got motion-sick from him swapping the different things in front of my eyes. But, when all was said and done, he was like “If you could read that line with no trouble, you’d have 20/20 vision.” I squinted, said I might be able to guess it if my life depended on it, and then he put the big eye-machine thing in front of my face. “This is what it will look like with your prescription,” he said. At this point, I actually yelled “Holy crap, I can see!” Ha.

So, I got my new glasses this morning. I put them on, turned around in a circle, and almost passed out. The woman was like “Your eyes will need some time to adjust to them,” which I would have greatly appreciated knowing before I tried to do my best Scott Hamilton. Nevertheless, when I got to school, I put them on again, and started looking around.

My eyesight sucked before!

I guess my brain did a good job of convincing me that it wasn’t so bad, but there was no arguing with the glasses-on/glasses-off comparison. I looked out the window and could actually read a small sign that was probably 200 yards away! Amazing. I’m looking forward to being able to spend less time trying to figure out what the blackboard says, and more time trying to figure out what the hell a hypergeometric equation is.

Oh, and I ran six miles this morning, too. I was thinking “Man, this is feeling pretty tough today…” for the whole time. But, when I looked at my watch at the end, I realized I’d been running about 20 sec/mi faster than I intended! So… bad news: a little more tired today; good news: running 20 sec/mi faster is reasonable.