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introvert glasses
Nov. 10th, 2025 05:40 pmLike me, John Scalzi has two eyeglass prescriptions: one for general-purpose glasses (which in my case I use just for driving), and one for close-up glasses (which in my case I use just at the computer - or I did until I misplaced them last week).
He calls them his extrovert and introvert glasses, because he uses the former when interacting with the world and nobody (outside his family, I suppose) sees him wearing the latter.
I wouldn't use that terminology. I'm still an introvert even when I'm out interacting with the world, which yes makes interacting with the world a bit of a challenge, and people do see me wearing the computer glasses. I wear them when I'm on Zoom sessions (or I did until ... see above), and people have seen me then.
My latest Zoom session was my play-reading group. We've progressed far enough in Shakespeare to reach Timon of Athens. This is, as I well knew from having seen it on stage, an absolutely dandy play, delightful to read, yet hardly anyone knows it.
He calls them his extrovert and introvert glasses, because he uses the former when interacting with the world and nobody (outside his family, I suppose) sees him wearing the latter.
I wouldn't use that terminology. I'm still an introvert even when I'm out interacting with the world, which yes makes interacting with the world a bit of a challenge, and people do see me wearing the computer glasses. I wear them when I'm on Zoom sessions (or I did until ... see above), and people have seen me then.
My latest Zoom session was my play-reading group. We've progressed far enough in Shakespeare to reach Timon of Athens. This is, as I well knew from having seen it on stage, an absolutely dandy play, delightful to read, yet hardly anyone knows it.
