big bad(s)

i suppose that there are currently two rather large things going on in my life right now. if hard-pressed, i might even say three (if including the hardcore inundation of The Yummy Fur a certain individual has been flinging my way, haha ;) ). what are they?

biggest one---of this very evening, in fact---is that i can SEE! well, not right this second. right this second, i'm typing with my face a whole lot closer to the screen than is really advisable. but that's because a few moments ago, i took out my contacts. my first-ever contacts. they are RGPs, and although they will definitely take some getting used to, i don't believe i ever fully appreciated just how bad my vision was until i wore them for awhile.

the sheer, unbridled joy at being able to read silly things like bumper stickers on other cars! street signs from far away! and, heavens forfend, some modicum of (or a reasonable facsimile thereof) peripheral vision!

it's truly unbelievable. very strange indeed, and i have a whole little schedule that my optometrist gave me that i have to stick to to get used to wearing these. i really hope my eyes don't freak out and i become unable to wear them, because it's really nice to be able to see. that and this is the best chance i have of slowing down the misshapenness of my eyes---have a nasty astigmatism and even nastier keratoconus. hee.

onto happier topics, however---the Franz Ferdinand full-length is really, really good. really good. great, even. the "Darts of Pleasure" EP was good, but as i've said in other places, the album is fucking great. i was listening to it practically nonstop from the time someone let me borrow it until i had to give it back this morning---now i have to go hunt myself down a copy of the special UK version with the live CD in, because a) LIVE CD BONUS!! and b) no way i can live without it till the 9th of March, when it's officially released domestically.

i can't wait till the show on the 26th. cannot. wait. seriously have not been this excited about a new band in ages. and i've earned the right to say that, i feel---i've read not a whit about the band until earlier today; all of this is based on actually LISTENING to them. not reading about who they allegedly do or do not sound like, or who it's suspected their influences are or are not.

lazy (music) journalism pisses me off like almost nothing else. i've gotten much better at letting it go in recent time---there are, after all, far more important (and worse) things to get angry about. this is but a minor thing in the grand scheme of things. but the fact remains, oh yes.

now, onward to sleep---have a hardcore 3 hour stint o' contact wearing in the morning followed by 2 hours of rest for my eyes followed by another 3 hours with contacts in. they aren't just going to hop in my eyes by themselves, either. to sleep~~~!