Comments on: astigmatism

By: Forgotten

Forgotten — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 20:31:57 +0000

OH, I hate that for you. I have to move my 3 babies from the only daycare they’ve ever known in 2 weeks because of the same type of stuff and it’s killing me. I know they’ll be fine. It’s me that can’t take the hit to the heart. I’ve gotten rather attached to the absolutely sweet caregivers.

I felt the same way when I got glasses. And then again when I got corrected lenses for my astigmatism, too. Just watch those first steps. You have to learn to walk all over again because you try to over-compensate for the vision correction. :-)

By: Painted Maypole

Painted Maypole — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 03:37:27 +0000

good luck with that surgery. may all things be clear and brilliant.

By: schmutzie

schmutzie — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:18:32 +0000

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By: Nicole

Nicole — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:16:01 +0000

I remember the day I got glasses, how things came into focus. Then I refused to wear my glasses for years – I’m vain – and I remember squinting constantly. When I got contacts I couldn’t believe the clear world around me. It was amazing.

By: Ted Itor

Ted Itor — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:37:58 +0000

George, make sure you get Bon to proofread your resume before you start applying for lawyerin’ jobs.

By: George

George — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:12:22 +0000

Uhg! I hate life in the air, it’s dizzying. Stability, some may say is boring, but jeez it makes it easier to breath. Everything is crossed for the PhD – in what?? As for the leaves, I’m with you on that one. That was exactly the thing that got me when I walked out of the optomitrist – ‘Mum’, I said in a whisper, ‘can everyone see the leaves on the trees? You know, like each individual leaf?’.
Sorry I have been bsent a while. Chaos reins here too at the moment. In June I will finish my Law degree. Possibly I will then breath (unless I have to spend the next 6 months looking for a job!).

By: bon

bon — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:30:21 +0000

dear Reader,

i do my grownup writing for work, mostly. i teach, i edit, i write grants. i try to stretch myself outside the walls of that box of professionalism here…otherwise i’d never publish until things were perfect. especially when i started.

i think the post has correct spelling, though! that’s one habit my OCD won’t let me drop. :)

do you really think only the formal and conventional is grown-up?

By: Reader

Reader — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:04:57 +0000

Are you planning to move on to ‘grown up’ writing one day? You know, that stuff with proper sentences, capital letters, correct spelling and the like? ;-)

I liked these words:

‘… felt like a mystery waiting to be solved: a terribly interesting problem waiting to be identified’.

It seemed to sum up the writing in the blog beautifully and accurately.

By: slouchy

slouchy — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 04:14:56 +0000

i’ve been astigmatic for as long as i can remember.

clarity on the PhD front should bring clarity on lots of other fronts, no? a snowball effect of sorts.

i am here, listening, encouraging, hoping that you see more clearly very soon.

By: bon

bon — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:12:15 +0000

it’s Tuesday. am still waiting for clarity. even hope of clarity would be nice. :)

however, yesterday we dropped the kids off for their last week with their sitter, and the new sitter-to-be (who currently works there, as one of the three caregivers) met us at the door with a very nice, carefully laid out information packet, in which she talked about her teaching philosophy & a lot of principles that if she even goes halfway on we may end up very happy. so that’s promising.

Dinah, in the end i applied to the new Ph.D in Education program here at UPEI. and they are only taking 4 students max, so it will be competitive. i’m in no way a shoe-in, but i feel my application is strong. if the faculty decides it wants to diversify its focus, then i’ll have an advantage: whether that’s their interest or not remains to be seen. i should know by the end of the month.