Chicago: customers are advised to allow extra travel time

The way it works on stage, the main couple is really trying hard to tell the audience the story, as if we're guests in their salon -- we're part of the gossip, we're in the room with them.

If you liked Joe vs. The Volcano, you should read some of John Patrick Shanley's plays, especially his late 80s/early 90s plays, especially this one. Lots of philosophical but virile talk, kind of like that passage from Six Degrees.

ooh cool. Thanks!

Is there a really big moon in it?

Not to be Mr. Hypochondriac, but lately I have been noticing little specks and squiggles in my field of vision, usually only when I'm looking closely at a light-colored surface. When my eyes move, the specks move with them, in the same direction. Is this normal? I mean, I can understand if it's just normal dirt or hairs on the lens of my eyeball, but it's weird that I've never noticed them until very recently. I have to make an opthalmologist appointment anyway.

ur TRIPPIN

http://www.sxc.hu/pic/m/k/ka/katkotrla/93494_trippin_in_chicago_pt_3.jpg

We went through there coming back from Colorado. It was nice, I hadn't been that way since I first visited Chicago. It reminds me of Disney World.

It is normal. I can't remember what they're called, though?

So have I just never noticed them before? Or is there a reason for them showing up?

Oh yeah, floaters: http://www.allaboutvision.com/conditions/spotsfloats.htm

Is this light-colored surface the computer screen? If so, that's completely normal.

Hmmm. Maybe I have a detached retina.

oh my. john. get yourself to a doctor & stop worrying!!

it's normal anyway. You can get that staring at a clear blue sky, too. Everyone has that.

Maybe I have a detached retina.

hypochondriacs should be denied access to all medical websites.

Try waxing your eyeballs.

I think you can just pop them out and scrub them, can't you?

Well, like I said, I have to make an opthalmologist appointment soon, anyway, so I'll just mention that I've had an increase in floaters and then the doc can tell me what that means.

an increase? A minute ago you'd never heard of them.

Argh!! MINE EYES! I was just looking at the wiki entry on opthalmologists and saw an eye surgery pic.

i'm assuming he means from zero to some.

As a kid I kept asking my eye doctors about floaters and they kind of brushed off my question and I keep thinking: these things look like bacteria! like little organisms!!

Get some bromide eye wash from the drugstore -- it will make your eyes feel better and will clear them out temporarily.

Also, I don't know why this would be, but maybe they've increased since you started wearing glasses.

Is there a really big moon in it?
One of the plays is called Welcome to the Moon. Shanleys plays and screenplays from that period, all the plays and Moonstruck and Joe Versus The Volcano are pretty much one long continuous work.

AMOEBAS

http://wilderdom.com/images/Amoeba.gif

http://www.gpmatthews.nildram.co.uk/animalcules/clathrulina.gif

but maybe they've increased since you started wearing glasses.

I wondered that, too!

i'm assuming he means from zero to some.

Yes. I mean, I'm pretty sure they've been there when I've stared at a perfectly clear blue sky, but now I see them just when I'm reading a book.

SUMMER 2008

DON'T

CLOSE

YOUR

EYES

"floaters"
www.floatersthemovie.com
(c)2008

I am scared to find out what that movie is about.

floaters, duh

I just made it up. I imagine a series of posters, each with a character (various ages, genders, races) with a balled fist against each eye.

Uh-oh!

Because floaters or flashes can be an indication of a serious problem, you should our doctor when:
You see floaters for the first time
You notice an increase in the number or size of floaters
You experience the sudden onset of flashes

What movie was it where someone threw a snickers bar in the pool?

True story: first grade show-and-tell, my show-and-tell was telling everyone to close their eyes and dig their face into their arm so that they could see all the little colorful fireworks flashes.

xpost Caddyshack!

and it was actually a Baby Ruth

http://www.docsteinmetz.com/low_vision/floaters_flashes/images/2smallani.gif

argh nebbishy people

"My daughter has come home from her year in Japan and I have all these squiggles in front of my eyes when I look at her."

Caddyshack has philosophical implications as well.

So I jump ship in Hong Kong and make my way over to Tibet, and I get on as a looper at a course over in the Himalayas. A looper, you know, a caddy, a looper, a jock. So, I tell them I'm a pro jock, and who do you think they give me? The Dalai Lama, himself. Twelfth son of the Lama. The flowing robes, the grace, bald... striking. So, I'm on the first tee with him. I give him the driver. He hauls off and whacks one - big hitter, the Lama - long, into a ten-thousand foot crevasse, right at the base of this glacier. Do you know what the Lama says? Gunga galunga... gunga, gunga-galunga. So we finish the eighteenth and he's gonna stiff me. And I say, "Hey, Lama, hey, how about a little something, you know, for the effort, you know." And he says, "Oh, uh, there won't be any money, but when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consciousness." So I got that goin' for me, which is nice.

http://sseizure.ytmnd.com/

argh nebbishy people

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Just to continue to bitch for a minute, a coworker of mine is stuck with some file problems, and instead of going the sure-fire, low-impact route of getting new files, he is hemming and hawing and being all indecisive, which is starting to cut into my time and resources... and making me BATSHIT INSANE.

What kind of file problems?

Images that may or may not be f-ed up in a number of ways.

I have been making smoothies lately. The first one I made was mango/banana/OJ and was probably too thick. Not enough OJ, in retrospect. The second was raspberry/blueberry/white peach/OJ and was pretty good, although the peach wasn't ripe enough. But the one I made last night, strawberry/banana/OJ, was the best. An unfuckwithable combination.

Toss in some peanut butter, srsly!

That never occurred to me!

Also recommended: milk, plain yogurt.

It's a great excuse to buy fresh fruit that I'd forget about in the fridge otherwise.

See, I was thinking these kind of files
http://www.cleansweepsupply.com/pictures/standard/xqx01486.jpg.

Throw some skim milk or yog into those smoothies!xposts

It's also fun to have some frozen fruit on hand for said smoothies (or to throw in muffins).

MUFFIN SMOOTHIE

Wasn't someone on ILX talking about a chocolate-cake smoothie recently?