And lo! Amy needs glasses

[highlyeccentric]

Public servant lenses, apparently. For people who actually have decent vision but whose eyes go spacky from long-term computer use.

I ordered spiffy purple frames. kayloulee should be proud of me.

Finally, I am deeply enamoured of

a) Medicare Australia and the Australian health care system in general, for bulk-billed eye exams

and

b) my parents' private health insurance fund, and its nifty halfway-grownup program whereby independant adults under 25 pay part of your own cover (hospital and ambulance, I think) and the rest can stay under your parents' family cover. I would not want to be paying the price tag on those glasses without it.