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In which i was askew
I wear glasses. Mostly to see but also … no really, just to see I suppose. I actually have two pairs of regualar glasses and two pairs of sunglasses. I hadn’t really intended on that but once when I went in with Andie to buy her some glasses I was in a really impulsive mood (no really, lights and buzzers were flashing “Lynn, stay in the house, you’re way to impulsive today to go to a store of ANY kind”) and I ended up buying a second pair of galsses and a second pair of sunglasses.
So, the point is I have 4 pairs of prescription glasses, two regular and two sunglasses. I mostly just wear the one pair of regular glasses because I discovered one day wearing the onther ones that my entire head was askew.
a·skew/əˈskyo͞o/
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| Synonyms: | aslant – askance – awry – slantwise – athwart – askant | ||
I felt kind of funny wearing those glasses so I rarely wore them. But, 3 weeks ago I accidentally bent my main pair of glasses and I couldn’t wear them. Cue the backup pair. Now the backup pair are actually REALLY cute glasses but they’re bright turquoise with a solid straight line on top and they really show that my head is askew, hence the following conversation with Kevin:
Me: People keep asking me if I got new glasses
Kevin: why?
Me: because although I’ve had these glasses for a year, I rarely wear them
Kevin: why?
Me: I never noticed before…
Kevin Noticed what?
Me: I think my head is askew
Kevin: askew?
Me: yeah,askew … you know crooked, out of whack
Kevin: Lynn, I know what askew means
Me: I think it’s because I have two scars through my eyebrow
Kevin: maybe
Me: or maybe my ears are out of line
Kevin: well … your ears
Me: don’t even start with my ears (he thinks my ears stick out)
Kevin: what? What was I going to say?
Me: you can’t tell with my bangs down but with a ponytail?
Kevin: hmmm … you could be right. You are askew
Me: see? You’re making me self-concious
Kevin: we can check
Me: like with a level
Kevin: yeah we have a level
Me: we have a 2 foot level. We should do that. Can you imagine a picture of me with a 2 foot level on my glasses
Kevin: that would be funny
Me: it wouldn’t work though
Kevin: why
Me: because I could stand crooked or hold my head crooked and the level would should that. It wouldn’t actually prove whether I was actually askew or not
Kevin: It would be funny for you to walk around for a day with a level on your glasses though
So you see? I was convinced tht I was all askew so the glasses made me feel funny but yesterday I finally went and got my messed up glasses fixed. When she was fixing them she said :
Her: hmmm, one of your ears is lower than the other
Me: WHAT? So I am askew?
Her: everyone is to some extent
Me: really?
Her: yes, all you do is adjust the glasses to fix that
Me: how do you do that
Her: you don’t look at the ears, you look at the nose and measure the distance
Me: holy shit, for years I have been worrying about being askew and you just told me EVERYONE is askew
Her: would you like me to fix the other glasses for you
Me: Hell yeah … I can’t believe I’m not askew
Her: well, you are but we all are
Me: I have got to write about this
Her: you’re a trip Lynn
Which I think means “you’re pretty god damn awesome Lynn” although that might be a loose interpretation. I’m not sure.
So there you are! Now I have two pairs of glasses to use every day. And don’t forget to add askew to your vocabulary.
You can thank me later.
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Some people wear there glasses for fashion, but mostly for there own good.
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I want to get glasses too and I am not sure if I will get used to it…
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I love the color of your glasses and especially the stripes color black. Sometimes I’m wearing glasses for fashion because its cute and you look genius of it even though your not hahahaha..very funny
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Oh wow! They can FIX the askewness! So now I won’t have to walk around with a tilted head and stop getting a kink in my neck!
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well, they can’t fix the ears…just the glasses…hahaha
I’ve been fond of askew for ages. Athwart, though, I haven’t used in donkeys years. My son has a psychiatrist (he is four). We’re doing lots of play therapy. The psychiatrist worried that we use too many long words with him. I said, “My kids have gargantuan vocabularies”. And Sam said, “Yeah, I have room for like a million more words in my dictionary”. I was so worried he would say lexicon.
hahaha…i have a terrible vocabulary by the way.
always have
Yup, have known for a while that I am askew. I started out thinking it was all of the sunglasses I tried on. But no, it is me.
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well, don’t bother with a level. turns out we all are
What a coinky dink! I am off to the eye doc in a few weeks and plan on new contacts AND glasses. I will get back to you with how askew my noggin is. And to think, i was only excited about getting my eyes dilated.
i hate the dilation but get some cute specs