-33 today. Holy Saint Francis, it's freaking cold out. Insanity. I'm heaidng home tomorrow, so I remain hopeful that it will simply be a cold thing and not a snow thing. My skin is really flaky and dry and GROSS because it's so windburned. I can't believe *knock on wood* that I haven't had a cold yet this year. I'm sure it'll happen right when I start to get busy with assignments and stuff.

So I decided that I was going to skip 18th century and Canadian lit today because I just didn't feel I had enough patience or stored body heat to function effectively in either. And, amazingly, 18th century ended up being cancelled, so Kori and I went to the mall. I've been searching for new glasses this week, and I was finally able to settle on two pairs that I wanted at the 2-4-1 place here (normally this would be too expensive, but I had a coupon for $80 off the frames, which made it the same price as a regular pair would be elsewhere).

Now, I am quite blind. For those of you who do wear glasses or contacts, I'm a -7.5 in one eye and a -8 in the other. I literally see about 6 inches in front of my face clearly. My lenses are coke bottle thick. As a result, purchasing new glasses usually involves the salesperson going for the soft sell on those ultra-thin lenses. And, sure enough, this guy did. Which would have been fine, except ultra-thins start at $299 there. That's $299 in addition to the $100-200 for frames. I don't have that kind of money--hell, my insurance only pays $200 every two years for glasses.

I then asked if it was possible to just get regular lenses. His answer: "at your perscription, we don't recommend it." I got up and walked out. I'm sorry, but I don't have $500 to spend on a pair of glasses right now (and I hope to god I never do). I'm young. In a city with both a university and a college, it should be pretty obvious that I am a student. Students don't have money. It doesn't seem unreasonable to me for him to realize that I can't afford that--and would it have been that hard for him to tell me that they could put regular lenses in my glasses? I don't care about the asthetics of it, I just want to be able to see.

So 2-4-1 lost my business. I did get blue hairdye from wal-mart, though, so I'm going to a spelling bee tonight with pretty coloured hair. Heh.

In other grumpiness inducing news, Sixpence None the Richer has covered Crowded House's "Don't Dream It's Over". It's pretty sad, I think.

But home tomorrow--what a treat that will be.

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