The bad news: dammit, my health insurance doesn't kick in until July.

The good news: scheduled an eye exam for today, looks like it's going to be much cheaper than I feared.

I'll deal. I suspect if I end up needing urgent care, I can get some sympathy for being a newbie who at least *tried* to get coverage...

Update: At the eye clinic waiting to be fit in for an exam. The family sitting next to us has been playing minimal-quality South Asian childrens' Youtube videos at full volume, the kind that are soaked in four kinds of sugar syrup and dubbed with cloying infant noises every two seconds. I think it is too late for me; my eye will have exploded from sheer suppressed rage (since I absolutely do NOT have the heart to tell this adorable child she can't watch her vids) long before they can have a look at it.