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We have a lovely belt of rain crossing the ACT right now. It's a perfect day to stay snuggled inside, buffing up bits of duethings. I shall do that for an hour and then I shall do that again, two hours later, but after carefully doing all my messages yesterday (with the help of K and under physical duress) a library visit has manifested and my glasses are ready.

There's a Jewish folkstory about walking between the raindrops and I shall do that. I shall also finish with the next stage of my novel first (it got made complicated by factors beyond my control, but it is decomplicating at a respectable pace and will not cause everything to be late. Not if I stop chattering here and make my last decisions and zoom it back to my supervisor for judgement.

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I got very thoroughly wet, but my messages are done. We have rain and more rain overnight, with a side dish of thunder.

My new glasses came rather earlier than expected and I'm wearing them now. They're angular and dark and my face is round and pale and so I look quite different. Better from some angles, not so much from others. The oddest thing about them is the big plastic bars on each side. Since I have no peripheral vision anyhow (I can only see where the glasses adjust my vision), there's no technical problem with large and decorated arms for glasses. It's odd, though, to have the sense of darkness and weight on each side. (If I worry about this, I can always pop on my reading glasses, which were almost the same as my old everyday glasses, just with different lenses).

For those worrying, after my health fund rebate, my glasses cost me $359, which is not as bad as it could have been. While I collected them, a woman was trying to find cheaper frames for her son, since the $250 for two pairs was a bit rich for her. He son was not happy about the whole thing: he just wanted out.

All the rest of the news of the day concerns my PhD, which is still progressing. Less than three weeks to go.