I picked up my new glasses tonight. They’re so very PoMo librarian.

It’s crazy. Onto the lessons learned today:

1) It’s dangerous to read a textbook called, “A Short History of the Movies” when you’re a not-so-closet cinephile like me. I started having fond flashbacks to my film studies classes, had a moment where I reconsidered my entire path in life, snapped back to reality and just added about 26 movies to my already-on-the-verge-of-400-movies Netflix queue. I added a bunch of early films like “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari”, which I’ve seen before but now want to see again, and a silent film called “Broken Blossoms” starring Lillian Gish.

2) Cut flowers, while pretty, stink something awful when they’re dead. I have them in the trash up here and I’m going to have to take them outside since the warmth fostered the growth of the stench. Yuck.

3) My new glasses are truly PoMo librarian. They’re by Anna Sui, for Pete’s sake, and came in a slick black case embossed with the Anna Sui logo, and lined with purple velvet. Just my style. The lesson here? Well, when I went to the pharmacy after putting on my new glasses, I was treated with more professionalism and attention than usual by the usually sullen and nasty pharmacist. He’s ALWAYS totally rude and sort of ignores people; he was actually FRIENDLY. I don’t think he was just in a good mood - I’ve been dealing with the same guy for three years now and this was the first time he looked up from the keyboard to ask me for my information.

4) The palmaris longus is connected to all the fingers in the hand and my cortisone injection into the palmaris longus yesterday is causing some MAJOR soreness in my thumb. I called the doctor and my mother talked to one of her work friends who is an occupational therapist; apparently, this is normal when there’s been some trauma (like a deep tissue cortisone shot) into the palmaris longus.

5) I can pull off wearing metallic green eyeliner pencil without looking garish.

6) Next week, I’ll be getting another performance appraisal and the customary (for my employer, anyway) modest 6-month completion raise.

7) Buying Easter candy after Easter is good especially when you’re buying Peeps. They’ve already begun to reach that stage of chewy petrification that makes Peeps so gosh-darn tasty. I recommend buying them after Easter. They’re half price and cheap as hell to start with. I paid $0.58 for my Peeps today. CRAZY.

That’s it. I am friggin’ hungry and think I might order some Chinese food. OK. I just did. It’s going to be ready in five minutes so I’d better put some shoes on and get in the car. This is quicker than fast food, really. And sweet and sour chicken and brown rice somehow strike me as being a little healthier, too.