My Identical Eye Twin

[sistermagpie]

1. Bought ROTK:EE at video store.

2. Went to comic book store. Guy at counter reminded me Mike Lilly will be there tomorrow and he's giving out free bookplate sketches so I should remember to bring my Nightwing #100, which he knows I have.

3. Could not spoon the potatoes into my plastic container at deli because the steam kept fogging up glasses.

I figured there was only one more thing to complete the geekness, which was to write about these things in my blog. So here it is.

Also, possibly even dorkier,

My dentist had a cancellation, so I got a filling today. Remember that ep of friends where Joey thinks he's found his "Identical Hand Twin," a person with his exact same hands? Joey is amazed and thinks they should be able to make money with this somehow, and nobody else thinks it's interesting?

Well, today the dentist is working over me and I'm looking up at her and...she had my exact same eye color. I know that doesn't sound very exciting--but I have kind of unusual eyes! Not Mary Sue unusual in jeweled tones that a person would notice when talking to me, just...subtly unusual. Unusual enough that the rare times I've had to accurately describe them it was hard to do, and when somebody else offered to look at them and describe them they wound up saying they couldn't really say either because they were kind of weird. So the whole time she was doing my teeth I was gazing into her eyes wondering if I were really looking at my reflection in her plastic goggles. I wonder if she noticed or if she was just looking at my teeth. Or if she looked at didn't notice, or noticed and didn't think it was interesting at all. For all I know her entire family has the same eyes.

It's the stupidest thing in the world but it completely distracted me from everything she was doing to me.

Comments

[gillieweed.livejournal.com]

Oh thankyou. I thought I had attained world-record geekiness getting all schoolgirly over a ticket to see Alton Brown. And writing about it.

[sistermagpie.livejournal.com]

We all just need to support each other--none of us sounds that bad compared to each other!

[samaranth.livejournal.com]

Let’s at least be glad that she concentrated on your teeth! (Was this the appointment you were going to have to wait 3 months for?)

I don’t know, this might also mean that she is a long lost cousin of yours (or perhaps not just your identical-eye, but also your evil twin? After all, she is a dentist…)

Go the geeks. Absolutely. *nods* :-) (The steamy glasses were an extra nice touch.)

I'm looking forward to hearing what you think about the EE. (I haven't seen it yet.)

[sistermagpie.livejournal.com]

This was the appointment I had to wait three months for. So now I've just got the second root canal one, then two more for a crown. My life is so exciting!

I still haven't watched the EE except for the Easter Egg which was hysterical. I'm going to be asking, "Ven vill you vear vigs?" a lot in the future, I can tell.

[mariagoner.livejournal.com]

Hm... what do your eyes look like, anyway? Mine are the same plain mud brown that almost everyone from the Subcontinent is stuck with, and if your eyes get to do anything cool (like change color or predict the weather!), I am going to be so, so jealous!

[anehan]

My eyes change color! Well, actually I've ever seen them do it in the upstairs toilet of our old house, so I guess it was because of the light or something. The colour was a kind of shade of green, the one you'd expect a tropical sea be on a sunny day. Very jewel-like colour. It was kinda cool, because usually my eyes are a boring shade of greyish blue that everyone around here has.

[sistermagpie.livejournal.com]

That sounds pretty! I think all light-colored eyes change color sometimes--or look like they change color. Sometimes it depends on what you're wearing or the light or, like I said above, your eyes being bloodshot. It's only the Mary Sue's whose eyes literally change from one shade to another in this noticeable way, with each one prettier than the last. It reminds me of a doll I saw once with huge eyes where you could literally rotate her eyes to different jeweled colors.

[mariagoner.livejournal.com]

Boring shade of greyish blue?! No such thing!

And your eyes sound rilly, rilly purty. Do they also have little specks or spots of brown/red in them? If so, they're probably hazel. If not, they're likely just blue.

[sistermagpie.livejournal.com]

Usually I notice them changing like furina's in certain light or, more commonly, if my eyes are bloodshot. They look much more blue when they're bloodshot...though not very attracted.

I don't think they look very remarkable at all if you're just looking at me, it's just up close they're like...there's the black pupil, then around that there's sort of a ring of yellow. Then there's the main part, which is a greyish blue, and around that there's another ring of darker grey. It does sound like some Mary Sue description, doesn't it? Overly elaborate, unnatural and not all that pretty! But in real life I think they just look pretty normal, I think. If I have to fill out my eye color on a form or something I just say blue.:-)

[mariagoner.livejournal.com]

Hmmm... a ring of yellow? Sounds as though you could have hazel eyes, actually, since hazel eyes usually have red/yellow/brown in them.

Ooh... now I'm intrigued. Would it be too forward to want a picture of your optical areas? ;)

[mariagoner.livejournal.com]

And here's a pretty example of hazel eyes that look a great deal like your description...

http://img139.exs.cx/img139/715/310ov.jpg

[sistermagpie.livejournal.com]

That's hazel? I thought hazel eyes were green/brown. Those eyes look blue to me! (The do look a little like mine, though.)

[mariagoner.livejournal.com]

Hazel is commonly understood as green/brown, but can also be eyes that are flecked with reddish-brown and yellowish-brown. The eyes that I showed you belong to a model called Megan Ewing, and her eyes change pretty dramatically, from blue-grey (like pictured) to dark green to gray, etc. Do your eyes do that?

(OT: Does that mean she's a Mary Sue?!)

[sistermagpie.livejournal.com]

Heh! Perhaps she is a Mary Sue! I don't think my eyes are hazel--they pretty much just stay blue. Occasionally they look more blue than other times, but they don't change very much. Actually, the one time somebody noticed them changing was was disturbed it was because I'd just been to the doctor and had them dialated, so they looked black and she couldn't figure out what looked weird about me.:-)

[sistermagpie.livejournal.com]

Okay, my roommate is now loudly insisting my eyes are blue. In her description: "They are unusual because they are a very pale blue, almost colorless." (Which I would never have noticed.) But not hazel she asserts vehemently. She shares my idea that hazel-green/brown.

[anehan]

IIRC, lots of light-coloured eyes have a darker ring around the iris.

[mariagoner.livejournal.com]

Eh, it's highly subjective. But my personal rule of thumb is if eyes have brown/red/yellow flecks in them AND appear to change from green to grey to blue depending on lighting... they're hazel. "True blue" eyes tend to look a little more stable.

[chresimos.livejournal.com]

Could not spoon the potatoes into my plastic container at deli because the steam kept fogging up glasses.

Hahaha, that is so cute. Steaming-glasses are woe. :(

And the comment about blogging it earns you metapoints! *bestows*

Eye color anecdote is also nifty. And it would be funny if you had bejeweled Mary Sue eyes! (I think I was raised in places overly populated with brown eyed types, and so many people here are fair, so I still go a bit "ooo pretty!" over anyone with nice blue or green eyes. :D)

[sistermagpie.livejournal.com]

I couldn't believe how difficult it was. I'd get close to the thing with my spoon and they'd fog up. I'd step back and they'd clear. I'd go at it from another angle and they'd fog up again. Meanwhile I've got the DVD and the comic books tucked under my arm...

Eye color anecdote is also nifty. And it would be funny if you had bejeweled Mary Sue eyes! (I think I was raised in places overly populated with brown eyed types, and so many people here are fair, so I still go a bit "ooo pretty!" over anyone with nice blue or green eyes. :D)

Eye colors do sort of fascinate me. I think I started really noticing other people's blue eyes when I saw how clear they could be. Like, other people have blue eyes that are really pale or much brighter and all one color. I think it was when I noticed that that I started thinking my eyes weren't really that blue... But brown eyes can be really pretty as well. My father and sister have very dark brown eyes. (Just to round off the family, my brother's are more traditional blue and my mother's are green.)

[tinderblast.livejournal.com]

That is uber-geeky, but Ultimate Geekdom would be to write the blog in Klingon or some other made-up, fannish language ...

*shudders at the thought*

[sistermagpie.livejournal.com]

Bwahahaha! That's so true! Thank goodness those people are out there...

I have more than one drabble on my flist this morning that's in Latin, which makes me very happy.:-)

[tinderblast.livejournal.com]

Just so long as it's not in, like, ancient runes ... oh, Teh Geek factor alone would probably shut down the known universe.

[sarahtales.livejournal.com]

Dentist probablythought 'woo hoo, am in here!'
How about coffee at two on Sunday? *pesters mercilessly*

[sistermagpie.livejournal.com]

As long as I don't have to actually drink coffee, I'm there!

[malafede.livejournal.com]

... you don't drink coffee? I am bringing over my moka to make you girls coffee the way it's supposed to be!

[trazzie.livejournal.com]

I just started wearing glasses about three years ago, and the first time I headed out the door on a muggy summer morning, they fogged up immediately. Cracked me up!

...there's the black pupil, then around that there's sort of a ring of yellow. Then there's the main part, which is a greyish blue, and around that there's another ring of darker grey.

Are your eyes hazel? My hubby's hazel eyes sound similar. They have a ring of brown around the pupil, then greyish blue around that with a dark grey ring around the edge, and they seem to change colors slightly depending on what he wears. I think they're gorgeous! ;)

[sistermagpie.livejournal.com]

I'm becoming amazed that this is actually what hazel eyes are. I always thought hazel=green and brown. As strange as it sounds, it kind of freaks me out to think I might have to start writing my eye color down as "hazel" instead of "blue" after all this time. Why didn't anybody ever tell me that? Like, one of my parents?!

[sistermagpie.livejournal.com]

Okay, my roommate has now weighed in very passionately to say they're blue and not hazel at all.

I think I must be describing them in a way that makes them seem wrong, because I've never met anyone in person who though they were something other than blue ("pale blue, almost colorless" my roommate says).

[trazzie.livejournal.com]

Ooooh, I wish you'd post a close-up of those mysterious eyes! :D

We had a patient once who had some very interesting blue eyes, they were very pale but the color itself wasn't uniform over the whole iris. It had almost a map-like quality, with two very different shades of blue in them, or maybe it was a pale blue with light brown patches...I don't remember exactly, it was a couple years ago. It's a condition that doesn't affect the vision, but it's interesting to see.

[sistermagpie.livejournal.com]

LOL! You'd be very disappointed and think, "Eh, they're blue!" My roommate had never even noticed any different colors in them, and she's seen them often enough. I think with the dentist it was just the weird famliarity that they seemed all the same shades in detail. Very weird!