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Lost & Found
Sunday, 3 July 2011 17:28My capacity to lose things, it is pretty much infinite. I lose/break watches with particular severity, especially considering I can only really tolerate a watch if I wear it on a string around my neck. This is because my skin is ludicrously sensitive to just about everything, including most of the middle part of the periodic table.
This makes things complicated, because necklace watches are hard to come by, and necklace watches with decent mechanisms triply so. For a while I was ordering cute Hong Kong made watches off e-Bay. They looked adorable (I had a ladybug, and then an owl) but their durability matched their price. Most of the time my cellphone suffices for time-telling needs, whenever I happen to drag myself away from the computer, that is. Of course, during exams my cell if on silent and in my bag, and I desperately need good time management.
So, I went back to trusty e-Bay. I was going to buy one of the cute watches with the dubious innards and have it gutted by the local watchmaker and replaced with a more effective Japanese mechanism (his idea, via being introduced to him by my father). Instead I found a bargain on a lot of eight proper, honest-to-Florence-Nightingale nurse's watches. Now I have eight multi-colored watches on my desk and I'm debating which eye-smarting color I should wear.
The options (for eternal record): Black (yawn), yellow (a bit much maybe), bright blue, light tealish blue, green, violet (quite bright!), pastel pink, and OMGWTFBBQ eye-smarting hot pink of Barbie and Ken's nightmares. I think I'll save that last one for special occasions.
This makes things complicated, because necklace watches are hard to come by, and necklace watches with decent mechanisms triply so. For a while I was ordering cute Hong Kong made watches off e-Bay. They looked adorable (I had a ladybug, and then an owl) but their durability matched their price. Most of the time my cellphone suffices for time-telling needs, whenever I happen to drag myself away from the computer, that is. Of course, during exams my cell if on silent and in my bag, and I desperately need good time management.
So, I went back to trusty e-Bay. I was going to buy one of the cute watches with the dubious innards and have it gutted by the local watchmaker and replaced with a more effective Japanese mechanism (his idea, via being introduced to him by my father). Instead I found a bargain on a lot of eight proper, honest-to-Florence-Nightingale nurse's watches. Now I have eight multi-colored watches on my desk and I'm debating which eye-smarting color I should wear.
The options (for eternal record): Black (yawn), yellow (a bit much maybe), bright blue, light tealish blue, green, violet (quite bright!), pastel pink, and OMGWTFBBQ eye-smarting hot pink of Barbie and Ken's nightmares. I think I'll save that last one for special occasions.
