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[nisaa]

I am accepting distractions until about 2pm today. Then I pack my books, notes and 8 1/2 by 11 6pt font cheat sheet (the teacher said we could) and head to Starbucks to be less distracted by internet and IM and study for tonight's final. Until then, I will be here with my favorite tea poured from my favorite Rainware teapot, studying in my jammies or bathrobe, but definitely not nekkid coz it's chilly here.

But first, I will finally make an appt to see an ophthalmologist. I've been meaning to do this all semester when our Western Clinical Medicine teacher recommended I do so. You know the test where they hold an object in front of you and bring it close to your eyes? Well your eyes are supposed to converge and mine deviate to one side. Could be nothing. Could be a problem with Cranial nerve II (as I rummage through my notes to find that out).

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[nisaa.livejournal.com]

I will ask K today to reveal your secret identity to me :) I will friend you ASAP.

Thanks for the well wishes on the finals. I look forward to reading about your year in Israel.

[katann.livejournal.com]

Mine do something like that. I was told that the muscles in my right eye are not attached quite right, so they over-cross when I look at things close-up. They gave me prism glasses with some magnefication for my studies and crafting. Not a really big deal, just resulted in my needing glasses for distance, since my eyes are too tire to focus far off after working so hard close up.

Good luck with the ophthalmologist and your studies.

[nisaa.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I have reading glasses but never use them (because they're scratched up), so I'm thinking that might have something to do with it. Thanks for letting me know that it's not a big deal.

Distractions!

[kitune.livejournal.com]

This one is a favorite...

www.imaginationcubed.com/

It's an online collaborative whiteboard. You can invite others to sketch with you and then send your results by email.

This is the non-collaborative one:

http://ge.liveserver.com/Imagine

You can't invite people to sketch with you, but you can still send your drawings to others.

Back to work...

[extraspecialk.livejournal.com]

what, I'm not distracting?!?

[nisaa.livejournal.com]

You are certainly part of today's distractions! You're just in the after 2pm slot ;) See you in a few hours!

[boymaenad.livejournal.com]

I used to have weak convergence muscles, and one of my eyes would dart off, giving up. my optometrist said surgery was the only solution, but then added, "well, for some younger people, you can just strengthen the muscle with exercise." (!)

the exercise is: take a pencil or finger, and watch it as you draw it as close to your face as you can without diverging or hurting your muscles. hold it there for like three seconds, then pull it back away. repeat only once or twice, so you don't strain your eyes. do this a few times a day, being sure to rest your eyes in between, and you should find yourself more and more able to focus.

[nisaa.livejournal.com]

Hey, thanks!! You may have just saved me a lot of money. I made an appt. with a doc, but I'll be sure to be cautious if he talks surgery.