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When I ran into my high school boyfriend in Raleigh not long before I moved to New York, he mentioned to me that he would still brag about me getting mumblety-mumble on the SAT. Which discomfited me for a number of reasons: the SAT is biased along class, racial, and cultural lines; I don't think that the SAT is a very good measure of intelligence even for people who aren't hampered by those particular biases, because there are a lot of kinds of intelligence the SAT doesn't test; and I expect anyone who's genuinely intelligent to accomplish something more interesting or useful than scoring well on a standardized test.

But, I don't know, are you still allowed to brag about dating someone who got mumblety-mumble on the SAT if this same person is dumb enough to squirt liquid soap into their eye? Don't these things cancel each other out, or something?

(I was musing about all this while wondering if I'd managed to cause permanent damage to my eye. I still have some very slight blurring, but it continues to get better--I don't notice it unless I cover up the good eye. Such as it is.)