my, what big eyes you have..

man, it sure is a crappy day in dc today. 34 degrees and steadily raining/ icing. at least it's not 32 degrees.. but... still. gross.

yesterday i left work early to stop by my optometrist's office for my dilation exam. when i was there last month my appointment was before work, and getting dilated before you have to do things like "look at a computer screen" or "read" isn't a very good idea, so i scheduled just the dilation bit for yesterday afternoon so i could mosey on home afterwards. and i guess i hadn't been dilated for a while? because i forgot how flipping WEIRD it is.

in addition to the drops that actually dilate the pupil, they also put some drops in that relax one of the muscles in the eye, i guess. and the result is that you can see perfectly fine.... as long as what you're looking at is more than about 3 feet away. anything up close? physically impossible to focus your eyes on it. SO WEIRD. so i could drive fine, because everything outside my car was crystal clear, but i couldn't read the clock in my dashboard. i tried to call my mom, and i literally could not see anything on my phone. i know my parents' phone number, obviously, so i dialed that by touch and hoped that "home" popped up on the screen when i hit send, because there was nothing i could do to verify that was the case until someone answered. i'm used to having awful vision if my contacts are out, so i'm also used to bringing things waaaaay up to my face in order to see them clearly, and it was seriously weirding me out that no matter how close i held the phone, or squinted up my eyes, it made no difference. and yet! i could read the teeny letters of the license plate holder on the car in front of me. wacky.

i took a picture of my dilated eyes, because those were also weirding me out, but i forgot to download it this morning before i left for work. it's a shame, because my eyes DO NOT PLAY AROUND when asked to dilate. the doc came over to where i was waiting for the drops to go into effect and was like "ok! let's see if you've started to dilate yet!" and shone a light near my eyes, and immediately went "WOOOAH! uh, yeah, you are DEFINITELY ready. wow." it looked something like this:

that's a LOT OF PUPIL.

minor boy update: no word from IT Boy, but Stretch emailed me on monday to say what a good time he'd had the day before, to confirm that we were still on for the game this sunday, and to ask if he could take me out for a "real" dinner beforehand on saturday night. i can't make saturday, but he did earn points for asking :-)