Call of the Heart
Sep. 8th, 2012 10:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
todayiamadaisyToday I went to Port Fairy's annual second-hand book fair. There was also a market on the civic green, featuring a number of food stalls. One had a sign — a professional canvas sign, not just something scribbled on blackboard — that said its name was 'ARGUABLY THE BEST SAUSAGE ROLLS AND RICEBALLS IN THE WORLD'. Catchy.
Driving home from Port Fairy, my windscreen wipers were dragging on the windows, so instead of going straight home, I went to Super Cheap Auto and bought some new wiper blades. They come in colours now. I picked the red ones.
There was an article in this week's medical newspaper about a boy in Queensland who used over-the-counter eyedrops and developed toxic epidermal necrolysis, which led to his skin peeling off in sheets, among other awful things. So that was a fun thing to read just before putting in my prescription eyedrops.
Speaking of my eyedrops, do you remember my glasses of DOOM? It took a week between my checkup and the arrival of version one of the glasses. It's now been two and a half weeks since my last appointment and I haven't got the second version yet. I rang the optometrist yesterday, just to see what was happening. They told me that there was a problem with their computer, so the lenses had to be sent away for grinding and it might be another week or so. Okay then. I can't help but think this is much harder than it should be.
There is an episode of The Simpsons in which the world's largest cubic zirconia comes to Springfield. It's about the size of a room, and I must admit that's what I was imagining when I read this. Then I saw this photo and thought, well, yes, that makes more sense.
This week's random word:
19. Bad
Well, this was educational. Where do you think 'bad' comes from? I bet you can't guess. It goes like this:
Bad, from Middle English bade, meaning wicked, evil or depraved, from Old English bæddel, meaning... hermaphrodite. I did not see that coming.
Next week: nudiustertian
Driving home from Port Fairy, my windscreen wipers were dragging on the windows, so instead of going straight home, I went to Super Cheap Auto and bought some new wiper blades. They come in colours now. I picked the red ones.
There was an article in this week's medical newspaper about a boy in Queensland who used over-the-counter eyedrops and developed toxic epidermal necrolysis, which led to his skin peeling off in sheets, among other awful things. So that was a fun thing to read just before putting in my prescription eyedrops.
Speaking of my eyedrops, do you remember my glasses of DOOM? It took a week between my checkup and the arrival of version one of the glasses. It's now been two and a half weeks since my last appointment and I haven't got the second version yet. I rang the optometrist yesterday, just to see what was happening. They told me that there was a problem with their computer, so the lenses had to be sent away for grinding and it might be another week or so. Okay then. I can't help but think this is much harder than it should be.
There is an episode of The Simpsons in which the world's largest cubic zirconia comes to Springfield. It's about the size of a room, and I must admit that's what I was imagining when I read this. Then I saw this photo and thought, well, yes, that makes more sense.
This week's random word:
19. Bad
Well, this was educational. Where do you think 'bad' comes from? I bet you can't guess. It goes like this:
Bad, from Middle English bade, meaning wicked, evil or depraved, from Old English bæddel, meaning... hermaphrodite. I did not see that coming.
Next week: nudiustertian