Laugh at Weird Little Steph XD

Okay, well I had totally written a blog before this, but I thought of a better one. Haha. So I will tell you just how strange I am. I go to the eye doctor once a year around Christmas time. Last time I went, she put me through a bunch of tests to figure out what was wrong with my vision. I had thought that my right eye was going bad, so she checked it out. Turns out, I was correct. My right eye is slightly nearsighted. Not only that, but my left eye is slightly farsighted. SERIOUSLY?! What the heck. Even my eye doctor said it was very unusual. Luckily, neither eye is bad enough for me to get glasses yet.

When you think about it, my brain should be going insane. As our book tells us, nearsightedness happens when the image of something forms in front of the retina while farsightedness occurs when the image forms behind it. So my brain has to process all of the images coming in from both eyes at different positions! GAHHH! No wonder i'm always confused! This is the kind of thing that could only happen to me. Haha. So, when I get glasses (which might happen next time I go to the optometrist...), they will be some funky glasses. The right lens will have to be diverging while the left one needs to be converging.
That's me with my sister's (diverging) lens over my right eye. Arghh I'm a pirate! It's a little too strong for me still and it's the weakest strength. And I look strange with glasses on anyway. If I put it over my left eye, I just end up with a headache. Haha.

I hope my misfortune has somehow managed to make you smile or laugh a little at me. It's the last week before spring break, people! Let's end third quarter with a BANG! :]

Ice Cold...

...Just like the world. Aren't I a little cynic...Haha. Anyway one day, after my sister's volleyball practice, my mom emptied her water bottle. In the bottle was water, and a bowl made of ice. It literally looked like a bowl. My mom gave it to me, so I played with it. I played with it until it melted and my hands were numb. It was fun.



I did a ton of things. I held it up to the curtain to see what it would look like, I filled it with water and put things in it, I even took pictures of myself through it. And I took lots of pictures. LOTS.


As I read in my textbook this weekend, the distorted effect that I saw was because of refraction. The light reflected off of the curtain or the fork or the spoon or my face was bent through both the ice and the water. When the light bends, it reaches your eye differently, and you end up with a distorted image. As with the spoon and the fork, you can clearly see three levels of refraction: Through the air, through the ice, and through the water.

I learned that ice and water make a very good photo opportunity as well as a good physics topic. One more picture to maybe brighten up your day...or your week. :] What an attractive picture...>_<