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I had a dream last night, one of those long and drawn-out weird dreams. I don’t remember much about it, but at one point during the course of this dream, an old man came up to me and asked me this question:

If you were given a choice between one or the other, and could not say “neither,” which would you rather be– deaf or blind?

I don’t remember what I told him. I completely forgot about this until about halfway during the day, when I remembered it, and it made me think.

Which would I rather be, deaf or blind? Granted I was given a choice, of course. Ideally, neither, because I’m doing just fine with the five senses I have. Given a choice, I’d have to say that I’d rather be blind. I think I could live in a world without vision, without seeing people and places and being content with the pictures I still had in my head, than living without voices and music and words. Does that make any sense?

How about you? Would you rather be deaf or blind?

Today was pretty windy, and part of my job today at work was to change the letters on the sign outside. I do it most Sundays, so it wasn’t a big deal. I’ve done it when it was windy before. Heck, I’ve done it in rain, snow, and 105° weather before. No biggie.

Nope. The wind blew one of those black plastic letters and it hit me square in the nose! Now my nose is all swollen, starting to turn purple, and I’ve got this big cut right across the bridge of my nose.

And if that wasn’t the worst part, my nose is so swollen that it hurts to wear my glasses, so I’m stuck being… well, kind of blind. My vision is awful. I’m probably about a foot from my screen right now, and I can’t read the words I’m typing. And I look funny, to top it all off!!

My other minor disaster happened just a few minutes ago. I’m a complete Firefox fangirl, but I guess it has its days just like every other program ever made. I customized the heck out of mine… plugins, custom theme, all these options changed… it was exactly how I wanted it. Nope, all back to default when I opened it just now. I’ve got to start ALL over again! Curses, Firefox!

Edit: Life gets better. Painkillers have made me temporarily forget about my nose, and I restarted Firefox and all of my tweaky goodness has returned. Hooray!

I spent some time on my portfolio the other day, and I think I’ve got it into something presentable. I’ve only got web design stuff up so far, and the writing I already had, but still, that’s better than nothing!

This stupid site is starting to come together.

In other, non-related news, there’s another possibility for that management spot before my birthday once again. I’m so befuddled about whether or not to take it, but I’m leaning towards taking it… sabbath or no sabbath. I mean, I’m not always going to be there. It’s just a step in the right direction… right?