monocular vision

My dad called this morning, to let me know about this story on NPR. It's fascinating, in that it's the first time I've ever seen a popular intellectual approach to something that's been on my mind a fair amount the last few years.

( Like the woman in the story, I don't have binocular vision. )

It also occurs to me that I'm sorry my eye muscle surgery didn't take better than it did. For the longest time, my eyes didn't bother me - I wore glasse until I was sixteen, which made the crossing a lot less noticeable. Now that I wear contacts and I'm pretty happy with the rest of my appearance... It's not a big deal, of course, but every now and then it kind of makes me wince, when I see a picture where it's really obvious, or when I look in the mirror when my eyes are especially tired.

Ironically, the other notable fact of this morning is that my eyes are bothering me. Just some strain, exacerbated by the fact that I forgot my reading glasses at home. Kind of apropos, though.

i am the fandom psychic

Hey, nekokoban, remember what I told you yesterday about it being about time for Rowling to make some kind of public announcement regarding the 7th book, for the sake of drumming up publicity?

Looks like I was right on the money.

"One character got a reprieve. But I have to say two die that I didn’t intend to die,” she said. “A price has to be paid. We are dealing with pure evil here. They don’t target extras do they? They go for the main characters. Well, I do.”

Bets on who'll die? Any other premonitions and predictions people feel like sharing? Random feelings from folks like me who will be happy to turn that last page and then move directly to Fandom_Wank to watch the biggest shit-fit of the decade go down? XD Also, any explanation of why, of all writers, I have to be psychically connected to Rowling?

meme!

Gacked from razycrandomgirl: the 12 characters meme. I love this game!

Choose twelve characters from your fandoms, then answer the questions under the link. Do not look at the questions beforehand.

1. Mal (Firefly)
2. Inara (Firefly)
3. Ivanova (Babylon 5)
4. Garak (DS9)
5. Mulder (X-Files)
6. Remus (HP)
7. Zoe (Firefly)
8. Methos (Highlander)
9. Snape (HP)
10. Londo (Babylon 5, for no real reason)
11. Bashir (DS9)
12. Elphaba (Wicked)

( And the Questions! )