"...I can see aaaaalllllllll obstacles in my way..."
I'm back in NYC and the weather is actually somewhat agreeable for once. It is still a little humid, but it's not as unbearingly hot as it has been in the past few weekends that I've been back. I might actually be able to venture out this weekend without feeling like I'm about to pass out at any given moment.
Last week, I wrote about crunchtime coming up on my project and it is definitely imminent now with the final deliverable being due a week from today. I originally thought that this past week would be hellish for me, but, honestly, it wasn't that bad...I've had much harder weeks earlier on during this project. Things were probably easier than expected this week because I'm waiting for inputs from a couple of teammates to put into my section and there was quite a bit of waiting for stuff from them. While waiting, I was able to get other work done, so it all seemed to go smoother. Also, I left Ohio on Wednesday at lunchtime to come back here for my LASIK surgery and was out of commission until yesterday morning, so that time off also gave me a chance to get some extra rest in. Next week is it though so there is going to be some heavy grindin' to make sure we don't miss our deadline and don't have to work into the latenight hours from our respective home offices next friday. Also, I've goto to make sure that I put my game face on this coming week because it's my last time with my Senior Manager who will be the primary one that decides whether I get a job offer after the internship. I'd better make sure I secure this offer because I'm not trying to go through that stressful interview process with 9-10 companies all over again in the Fall.
As mentioned above, I had my LASIK procedure on Wednesday and I think it went pretty well. I was surprised at how painless the whole thing was and, aside from pressure on my eye when they had to connect the machine that used a laser to cut a flap in my cornea, I didn't feel a thing. After the procedure, they had me go home and gave me a sleeping pill so my eyes would have time to rest. That 11 hours of sleep was the most i've had in I don't know how long. My sight has been much better since waking up yesterday and has gotten progressively better since then. I had a weird white haze in my vision all day yesterday, which has almost completely faded away. My vision isn't perfect yet though, which isn't something I was expecting. My right eye is almost there, but the left one is still hecka blurry and I notice the difference when I'm reading words on my computer screen or try to read things that are some distance away. From what I've heard (from both doctors and my man Travis who had LASIK done back in April), everything will stabilize over the course of the next one to three months, so i'm not worrying about anything. Overall, I'm VERY happy with the results and would recommend the procedure to anyone who has grown tired of having to depend on glasses and contact lenses. Those things cost too daggone much and, if you run the numbers out over several years, LASIK isn't really a bad deal at all.