Free Eye Surgery - Just Place Eyeballs Directly On Screen

It's funny because it's true...

Yesterday, I had my biannual eye exam... I think I should have just saved myself the money and bought a few glass bottles of Coke so I could slice off the bottoms and use them instead...
Eye exams are kind of a bittersweet thing for me... I'm always ecstatic to get new glasses so I'm not like a female Mr. Magoo, but, in the same respect, I don't look forward to finding out exactly how bad my eyes have gotten. As it is, without my glasses, I can barely see the big letter "E" at the top of the chart. I'm surprised they haven't declared me legally blind...

It's an art thing...

One of my favorite parts of the exam comes at the end. After positioning the lenses of the machine to what makes my vision clearest and ends up being my new prescription, he flips the lenses to the setting of what I came in with so I can see the difference between what I'm currently wearing and what I'm going to need in order to see clearly. What a difference! The sad part is, the difference is so great that it's troubling... Soon I think even the eye doctor will say the hell with lenses and just give me the bottoms of glass Coke bottles...

After I got my eyes examined (and received the bad news about how bad my vision is), I went into the frame room to pick out what will be my new frames. I had to make sure I took a picture of myself wearing them and explained to the two women there that I needed it to finish up the new self portrait I was drawing for the occasion. They both seemed rather surprised that I drew my profile pictures as opposed to using a photo, so I decided to show them a sample of my past profile pictures. They were both incredibly floored by my work. I must say, it was wonderful to receive so much high praise on my work. Most of the time, it goes relatively unnoticed and I begin to wonder if anyone likes the crap I draw. But then days like yesterday happen and I find a renewed purpose in my art. It's a great feeling!

It's all about cattitude...

I've come to realize that, most things in life, really are determined by the attitude you adopt. Case in point, I was feeling pretty awesome about my work yesterday and so others thought it was, too. Maybe I should learn to adopt a more positive attitude more often...
But that would require some motivation on my part and I just don't think I have that kind of gumption...
C'est la vie...