Blind And Clueless

This morning I left the house and immediately got some kind of tree branch blown into my eye. I'm sure it had to have been smaller than an actual branch because I didn't see it coming. But it hurt like heck. I turned around, went back to rinse my contact out, and idiotically stuck it back in and walked to school. Where I immediately IMed GirlChild (who thank goodness was home) to come and rescue me by bringing my glasses and contact case to school.

I felt about 12, yeah.

And I've been kind of woozy ever since, because I'm wearing my glasses and some days I just can't adjust to them. Unless I'm looking straight through them I can't see a thing, and when I look down I have absolutely no depth perception at all. That makes negotiating stairs downright tricky, let me tell you.

That's the blind, now for the clueless.

I've had a paper hanging over my head all year. It's for a scholarship, it need not be long, but it has to be economic-y. I don't know one darn thing about economics.

Some of you will tell me I do because I get the whole supply and demand concept. Trust me, that is not enough.

Anyway, I went and talked to the prof who is supposed to be overseeing my paper, and whom I have been assiduously avoiding for most of the year, and ran a couple of half-baked ideas by him, and he looked at me rather nonplussed and said, "You're going to need a hook."

Oh.

In other words, I've got nothing.

And then he said, "And you're running up on time constraints."

Yes. This I know. Now I feel about 5.

I calculate my odds of being doomed at 7 to 1. Actually I have no idea and that's nothing but a wild guess. Because I am clueless.

But at least I am super-musical, because a semi-truck's worth of music got delivered today. (A really small semi, but bigger than the branch that flew into my eye this morning.)

Comments

[Chris]

You'll get through these hassles. No worries. I understand the Econ problem. It was my worst area in certification exams. With your research and writing skills, I'm sure you'll find something about which to wax eloquent.