I don't deserve to be in the gene pool part 2

[lapsedmodernist]

Yesterday while doing laundry I accidentally washed and dried an unopened contact lens (as in, sealed in its original container). This is not as bad as when I gave a bath to my fan two summers ago or when I gave a bath to the family vacuum cleaner when I was little (ibid. and also do you see a pattern?) but it still sucks because I don't have, like, an unlimited supply of contact lenses and they don't grow on trees, especially in the Amazonian rainforest.

So, um, should it be okay to use? Or should I just throw it out?

Comments

Good thing I work next to a contact lens dispensary

[jeremyrichards.livejournal.com]

Seriously. I do. They said it should be fine as long as the blister package hasn't broken.

Re: Good thing I work next to a contact lens dispensary

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

And this is why I love livejournal.

Thank you.

[spawnsong.livejournal.com]

i figure put it in and see if it's still effective. I don't know in what temperature water you 'washed' it, but the only thing that could be problematic is if it had been somehow warped due to high temperature.

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

It was "whites" so hot. And then I dried it for 35 minutes on extra-hot. I guess I will not throw it out but, like, mark the box to remember that when I use it I should watch out for an onset of blindness.

arrr

[mjmj.livejournal.com]

or, you could put a black patch on one eye and put a lens on your other eye. do you already have pirate tatoos?

[enn.livejournal.com]

is there still liquid in the package?

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

yes...it's still sealed, I just thought being heated for a prolonged time could, like, alter its chemical structure, but then again I have a very medieval and intuitive conception of chemistry. It more like alchemistry.

I noticed you added me--I just checked out your journal, it is interesting and lovely. I would like to add you back, but gotta ask, though, why do you have dictator88 on your friendslist. Obviously you don't have to answer, but I am curious.

[enn.livejournal.com]

i will ask tomorrow {i will be standing neXt to an optometrist for a bit of the day} about your contact lenses.
re:dictator88.
i first added him ages ago {before i knew what the 88 stood for} because he was a sensationalist &a bastard;; so i thought, well, its good to know your enemies. but also, there was a soft side i was interested in seeing if i could poke at.
he was an {lj} friend of a friend as well.
i have met him in real life.
he is an odd bird, but a sweet man.
i dont agree with everything he has to say, but i like that. i dont want to be surrounded by people who are always agreeable. he is a good heart; he is really much more bark & no bite.

i think {sometimes} people shy away from me when they see that he is on my friends list.
i understand that,, but a person friends me, not him.
o, that sounds so dramatic doesnt it?
i hope you know what i mean though..

i enjoy reading your journal.
i admit, i was obsessed w. the idea of studying cultural anthropology &religious studies when i was younger.. of course, i decided to move around too much to be in school instead..
etcetera..
best;
eac

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

he is a good heart; he is really much more bark & no bite.

I don't mean to sound like I am interrogating you, because I am not, but how does that assessment fit with his self-professed allegiance to Nazi ideology and explicit antisemitic discourse? I am deeply revolted by anything of that nature; the fact that I am Jewish makes his discourse particularly personally offensive to me.

On a totally different subject: I saw a beautiful photograph (Dec. 9th) that looked...treated? Solarized/desaturated? I wanted to ask what camera you used and how you achieved that effect.