I, on the other hand, would pay a quarter if someone would wear a cheese bra/bro/mansierre and get on tv…

And, just to clear matters up with a certain puzzle-fighter-playing boy, you won against someone who had MAYBE 4 hours of sleep and doesn’t function well on less than 6. I’m all rested up now and demand a rematch.

I should have more to write, I haven’t been on here in 4 days and usually I’m a very chatty jerk. Today’s one of those days where you’ve got just tons of time to do whatever. I did finally hear back from my new eye doctor last week and the new medical term is multifocal choriditis with uviitis (maybe it was ubiitis? I don’t know). He said all the stuff I was treated for in the beginning was right, but this was what they were looking at with their fancy-schmansy m.r.i. and such last December. It’s kind of like arthritis of the eyeball, where part of the eye is swollen and inflammed, and sometimes it calms down a little, becomes almost non-existent, but then can flare up again. It’s always there, and there’s treatments (eye shots, EW) but no cure.

Sounds more like eyeball herpes to me.

He gave me 40 – 70% chance of the same thing happening to my right eye, which kind of freaks me out. But they know what it is now, so if it does spread they can start treatments pretty quickly. I’m trying not to think about it too much because there’s a good chance that it won’t happen at all.

Here’s what else has been going on, cuz I can’t think of anything else to write… Thursday night Ryan and I went to see Mark Gross (probably one of the funniest standup comics EVER) up in Appleton. It was way funny, and he did my favorite bit about being hung-over and watching Sesame Street. (C… is for cookie) Friday rocked because I wasn’t at work. Don’t get me wrong, I love my job. But a work-sanctioned “research” field trip is basically a day off, and who doesn’t love that?!?! Jen and I drove to the Mayfair Mall in Wauwatosa and got pirate turtlenecks at the Gap. This is the first thing I bought at the Gap in probably 5 years because they usually suck. But you can’t go wrong with pirate turtlenecks, especially if they’re on sale. We’re both gonna wear them to work on Monday and tell people we’re in a Pirate Club. Got lost after leaving the mall, drove around a while, got smart and bought a map and went down to Brady street. Checked out the cool stores down there, had some blessed blessed Starbucks. The drive back always seems to take twice as long as the drive there. Went and ate some splendid beef strokinoff at Ryan’s place (guys that can cook rock the house), went to the P, participated in the age-old Lehman family tradition (translation: my sister and I like to do this to each other) of calling friends while getting drunk.

Went up to Green Bay yesterday to pick up my xmas cards. I can’t freaking wait to send them out, they’re heckuv funny. Met Jen and went to Edsel’s show at I forget what the name of the gallery was… (Artspace?) There were other galleries in the area having shows, kind of like the artwalk thing they do at the Brewery back home… so we walked into a couple of other places and Mistaketown!!! while Edsel’s stuff was really cool and made me want to come home and paint, everything else was pretty thrown-together and bad. Have you ever been in The Magic Spot? (not that magic spot, you perverts) Yeah, DON’T. Went to the P, had some fries and beer, went to Target and introduced Ryan to the wonderment that is the Lucy Chair, then got my rear handed to me playing Puzzle Fighter. At least it wasn’t for ownership, that’s all I have to say.

Ryan asked last night if I was putting up a Christmas tree. And at the time, it struck me as kind of a weird question. I live alone, I’m not big on the holiday to begin with. I’m one of those people that just never really had a good one – talking to my sister this morning I was reminded of oh yeah, my parents always had a big huge fight on xmas eve or day. I could go on and on as to why I’m not a big fan, how much I hate the writing a list thing and how the holiday sometimes makes me sad but it will all sound very whiny and who really wants to listen to that? Last year was better because while I did see my family I didn’t spend the entire day at my mom’s. Instead I went to Sylmar Juvenile Hall, passed out xmas cards to the kids there, and spent the rest of the day at my friend Kaye’s parents house. This year will be hard because I don’t get my brothers and sisters at all. Sure, I get to go back this weekend and see them and we’re doing psuedo-xmas while I’m there, but it’s not the same. I am really glad I’ve met the awesome people I have met, you guys have made me start looking forward to the holidays for once.

And now that I’ve gotten completely sidetracked, let’s get back to the xmas tree. I’m not putting up a tree, I’m putting up something else my sister and I came up with this morning. If you’re in Oshkosh you’ll see it soon enough, and if you’re somewhere else I’ll send you pictures. I’m sure once word gets out about the Christmas Stool, it’ll be a new, very widespread holiday tradition throughout the entire country.

I’ve spent entirely too much time on here, I’m going grocery shopping. Go get System of a Down’s new cd, it’s muy delicisioso!