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As I rather thought it would, comes now the dance of insurance vs eyesight.

There's something wrong with my right contact lens. There has been for about a week now. It makes anything I look at half-blurry, and it's really rather annoying. I have one spare pair of lenses left, and if I put those in, I have three months (roughly) to get employed, get insurance, get to the eye doctor and get a new prescription, which I probably need anyway. Problem being, I don't know if I can do that in three months. I know I can get temp jobs, which is money, at least, but those don't come with insurance. And if I happen to get one of the BWH jobs, I don't get insurance until the end of the three-month probationary period. (And since I can't afford to pay utility bills this month, no way can I afford private insurance, so don't suggest it. Besides, private insurance probably charges extra for vision.)

On a completely unrelated subject, I know that fruit flies don't spontaneously generate out of thin air, but they might as well. Ye gods.

Well, so there.

I decided, this morning, that since my hip was doing something odd but not exactly painful, I was going to walk it out and see if that helped. Lo and behold, it did. I walked up to Trader Joe's since I was out of coffee, and stuck my head in the bank on the way and discovered I actually can pay the utility bills for this month. Of course, that will leave me with $19 in the bank after all's said and done, but I'm not thinking about that tonight. I'm going to be happy I can pay this month's bills, and stop there.

I put in my last spare pair of lenses, and wow, is that better! I still think my retina has a small tear in it again, though. For now I'm filing that under "fix ASAP, heavier on the P than the S". Last time I had that fixed, the doctor said I had a couple of other small tears that had healed by themselves.

The air has definitely changed. The towels I use in the morning dry in 24 hours now (thank goodness), and I've been constantly thirsty since yesterday.

As of two weeks or so ago, I suddenly get Toon Disney without having to pay extra for it. Not only that, they're still running one of my favorite old shows, albeit at half past midnight. So I set up the VCR to tape it for me, because I'm not generally up that late any more.

I also dyed my hair again today, so of course it smells funny. It surprises me how long it takes me to stop noticing that.