Today at GenCon I bought colored contacts. Black actually. Never having worn contacts before ever in my life, it took me 45 minutes to get them in. A nice lady gave me a bottle of solution to keep, and passed along some tips for putting them in. Fortunately the hotel sundries shop had a $2 contact lens case for me to keep them in!

I have been wearing them for about six hours now and they feel fine. They give me a tiny smidge of tunnel vision but it’s not bad - I am pretty amazed that I can see out of them perfectly normally! (Remember, before today I had never even held a contact lens, let alone worn one.) Once I take them out tonight, I may not put them back in for a while -
probably not till after I get home from the honors retreat and stuff. I definitely want to come home to A with them on! Then again, maybe I will practice putting them in a few more times.

I have wanted colored contacts for SO long. I was amazed that these were only $45! I was kind of torn between the black and the red, but I decided the black would be more subtle. I want people to peer at my eyes wondering “hey, is something weird with your eyes?” rather than just saying “whoa, you’ve got red eyes!” I got them from ExoticLenses.com; they had a lot of different styles but the black and red (and maybe white) were the only ones I was really interested in.

Update: I took them out after about eight hours of wear. They looked really cool, and only took a couple of minutes to take out versus 45 minutes to put in! I finally signed up for the $10/day internet, so when I am not so tired I will type up the past couple of days worth of happenings.