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This weekend turned out to be kind of bittersweet for me - I had a lot of fun, even though things kind of took an unfortunate turn. On Friday night, my roommate from my first year of university was in town from Nova Scotia (and I hadn't seen him since then - so it'd been about four years), so we decided to go out for a night on the town. During that night, I managed to lose my (only pair of) glasses and my (only) winter jacket. So, picture me, relatively inebriated, fairly blind, and wearing only a t-shirt and light button-up shirt during a thirty minute walk home in temperatures that were far below zero celsius. Yeah, not fun. I now have a cold.

Anyway, Saturday was a quest to get new glasses, since I can't work, drive, or really do anything productive without them. Of course, the optometrists told me it'd be Friday before I could get an appointment, whereupon I created a massive sob story about how my glasses were crunched under the tires of a car (verbatim quote: "It was so surreal. I mean, I was standing there in shock, not because my glasses were gone, but because they'd actually just been run over by a car. Really, what are the chances of that ever happening?"). Afterwards, everyone at the office wanted to be my friend, so they managed to fit me in and, thanks to Lenscrafters, I had myself a shiny new pair of glasses by the end of the day (and I look unbelievably hip, by the way).

Sunday and today have been spent being sick and/or looking for a new jacket. Neither has been much fun.

Also, I finally got a rejection back from Reality Complex. They said the story was well-written but predictable. Unfortunately, I can't particularly disagree.


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