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0800 Terrible nights sleep. Hopefully I’d be tired after the op. All advice is that the best thing to do is go to sleep afterwards as apparently it helps the cornea heal. 1100 Sat in the waiting room of the laser clinic, the sun bright and cold outside, four others sitting around and waiting to be seen. I wonder if we’ll become a little happy band of laser victims, cheering each other on as we go in and out, like contestants on a reality TV show. A woman walks out of the treatment rooms, squinting and smiling before pulling sunglasses on and walking out with her husband…”I’m not too bad….” she mentions, sounding surprised. I’m feeling optimistic. In the corner, rolling coverage of the Boston man hunt. Newsreaders struggle to say something original over and over. Sitting next to me a young woman reads aloud from a Penguin Classic paperback. I wonder if I can figure out what the title is over the next few hours? 1120 One woman is taken through “just for a chat…” and returns a few minutes later, clutching her coat and handbag across her chest. 1130 Reading woman is still reading, just subaudibly, I can only hear S’s and T’s, a random collection of hissing clicks that make her sound like a coffee machine cooling down. 1135 It’s Virgina Woolf “The lady in the looking glass”. If you’re reading Virgina Woolf, surely you can read to yourself without imitating white good...
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