oh, that's very sad about Prop 1. For all that NYC does wrong, our mass transit is one of the things that most defines and enhances it, and giving that up would be very, very difficult...

For the eye: you've tried a camomile compress? Just dampen a tea bag (as organic as you can get) and let it rest on your eyelid for ten minutes. Whenever I get a stress-twitch in my eye (complete with broken blood vessels), that clear sit up in a few days.