I can see!!!

My new glasses came in the mail today (I had them mailed to me, otherwise I would have had to wait until after thanksgiving to get them, and that seemed a little crazy - mostly because they were ready and I wanted to be able to seeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee) and they are SO CLEAR! It's amazing. Something happened to the special scratch-resistant coating on my last pair, and the coating was starting to ... selectively dissolve? I don't know what exactly, but it was making spots on my lenses, which is probably similar to having cataracts on your eyes (am I being melodramatic? Probably :P)
Here they are:

As you can see, they're pretty different from my last pair, in more ways than one! I love my old frames; I love that they're serious on the outside and have polka dots on the inside - but they're plastic and apparently the plastic they use for this type of frame 'dries out', so if anyone tried to take out the lenses and put in new ones, they might snap. Bah! I went through a lot of frames searching for an adequate replacement pair, which is in and of itself rather amusing. I mean, It's always taken me a while to pick out new frames, but when I was younger it was a really exciting process. This time, I was actually sad that I couldn't keep my old frames.
Anyway, these are the other frames I looked at:

So many varieties! But I ended up with the copper ones from the first picture. They're interesting and different, and I rather like them :P.
MOSTLY I'm just super super super excited about how clear the world is :D and I thought I would share. It's been a rather strange day, all things said, and the fact that my glasses came today has sort of accentuated that because I have to get used to the new prescription, so things look a little strange (Actually, nothing looks strange, it just takes a (noticeable) split-second for my eyes to focus.) Waking up this morning was weird, although I couldn't tell you why. I stayed up late doing italian homework last night, so that probably had something to do with it - and then we had a review in astro for our Friday midterm, and then I was riding my bike back to my dorm when I saw a few people standing around a girl who was sitting on the ground holding her arm next to her bike. In light of my unfortunate experience yesterday, I thought that maybe my first-aid kit would come in handy, but, good lord, she'd broken her arm and the bone had come through the skin. I didn't actually see the bone, buh her arm was bleeding rather heavily through her sleeve, and I'm pretty sure there are a select number of reasons for that - the number one being bones through skin. bleeeehhhhhhh. The girl who got there first was helping her hold her arm up, and we talked to the girl (Savannah) until campus po and the paramedics arrived.
And then, after that, I don't know. I've felt kind of light-headed since, which is dumb because it isn't like anything happened to me, and I don't get queasy at the sight of blood, but the thought of her bone sticking through her arm O.o. And also the ridiculous frailty of people. It worries me.
Take care of yourselves guys, ok?

An Ode

Banner Self Service

This is a system that needs help -
a little service for itself -
For while I sit here, my breath bated
my poor computer sure is hated
on by Banner Self Service.

Neither Firefox nor Safari
can get juice enough to see
through the maelstrom of requests
that Banner wears close to the vest,
Allowing us access, pretending we're set-
then chuckling and casting us out from the 'net.

Perhaps the problem is, in fact, this:
All of us, wile not registering, Banner does miss
and in attempts to make us stay
makes us curse the light of day
that creeps across the windowsill-
It's only 20 minutes! Be still!

So when next at your computer you sit
do pay Banner a brief visit
Look at your classes, or how much you own
try changing your name to 'Suzie', or 'Joe'
Through our attentions, perhaps B will see
That we love it, and it won't hate me!


Hahaha! I wrote this at the beginning of the semester while trying to register for classes - 'Banner' is the name of the system that Wellesley uses for this purpose, and while the server is certainly large enough to handle the sporadic requests throughout the semester, the sudden onslaught of demands while the whole college (well, each class) is registering usually overloads it, so it will look like it's just taking a really long time to process your request - but ACTUALLY nothing is happening at all, and you have to start from scratch.
This can be stressful because registration works on a first come, first serve basis, so if you need a particular section of a class because it's the only one that fits into your schedule (or say, want to avoid the Friday afternoon lab period) and everyone else wants it too... well, if Banner doesn't want you to have it, chances are it will kick you off. By the time you make it back on, it'll probably be full.
But! But! This morning, I registered for classes and it was SO EASY! Whether this was because my year-mates forgot that this morning was registration or because they did something with the number of requests Banner can process at any one time, I do not know. All I did was type in my courses, click 'ok' (or whatever that button says), and poof! There it all was! (normally there are around 20 minutes of edge-of-your-seat anticipation, but not this morning!)
Amazing.
So, I'm currently registered to take the following classes in the spring:
Geos 200 w/lab (historical geology)
Chem 105 w/lab (intro chemistry)
Italian 102 (second segment of the year-long italian program)
Music 235 (or some number like that) <- This should be interesting; it's a class on 'the orchestral instrument'. Really, I wanted to take theory, but the italian class messes with what I can and can't take - as the second segment, it's required otherwise I don't get credit for the first segment, and there are only 2 sections offered, so there aren't that many options. It's possible that another theory class will get put together though, in which case I will most definitely take it (provided it fits). Especially because this class meets Tuesdays and Fridays from 2:30-4:00, which is fine, it just... you know. If I want to go home, it means that I can't leave until 4. Ah well! Things can still change.
Wahoo! I'm registered!

(and I've also decided not to go to italian this morning. does that mean I can cross off 'declare your own personal lake day' on the list of 50 things? heh)

:D