I have NO TIME for this! i have to GO TO REHEARSAL right now!
but i had to share this with you – the ending to my glasses story.
erica didn’t have my glasses, as i’d feared.
i drove out to new salem today, was going to spend the afternoon in petersburg, looking at the shops and stuff, maybe getting a cone at the dairy queen…
i got to new salem and looked on the ground for the bright blue glasses case. not there. surely, lost forever.
i went to the desk inside, and there was cheerful bill bauser, who i told my tale of woe to…and there were the glasses! somebody had turned them in.
that’s the good news.
the bad news is that they’d either been stepped on by somebody very big, or they’d been run over. they were very, very bent up. bill said i should take them to lens crafters, where they’d straighten them for me. unbelievably, they weren’t scratched (not any more than they already were).
so instead of going to petersburg, i went to lens crafters. (luckily i didn’t go to p’burg, because there was a STORM WARNING there, complete with DAMAGING HAIL).
the lady at lens crafters said she didn’t know if she could fix them, they were bent so bad.
she warned me that she might break them when she tried.
i said ok and steeled myself for the worst.
she broke them.
but she then gave them to another, stronger woman, who put a screw in them.
this woman, too, spoke in dire tones of imminent breakage. i gritted my teeth and continue the steeling of myself.
they didn’t break.
so that’s more good news.
however, they could BREAK AT ANY TIME. THE EYEPIECES ARE DAMAGED AND FRAGILE.
so right now i’m ok, at least.
all right, i wanted to make a point about this, an analogy of the glasses being lost/broken, but now i’ve REALLY RUN OUT OF TIME.
i just want to post this photo.
and i’ll continue tonight when i get home from rehearsal…
glamour grace with bent glasses
ok then,
grace in a VERY BIG HURRY.