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Eating disorder

Wow, I haven't been here in about three months. This is not a good thing as this is THE place where I keep up my writing skills, meager as they are...Anyway, I've come to realize that I must have an eating disorder with …
Walking walking walking

As I grow older, I can no longer do what I used to do. DUH!There was a time when I would fast for a day and drop a few pounds. I would run a bit and work out a bit and lose another pound. But no more. Not after the big F…
Corneal scarring--Final post

Corneal Scaring Links 1 Background 2 Losing depth perception 3 No 3-D 4 Pre-op The Surgery After the preliminary exams checking my fitness for the procedure, I was set to have surgery. You can understand how nervous …
Corneal scarring--Last, pre-op

I have this incurable habit of going off on a tangent. Many of my students know this and seem to gleefully lead me astray in class with unrelated questions to minimize actual study time. I want to say that I realize what…
Corneal Scarring 3: No 3D

Our school holds an orientation for incoming freshmen every year, and yesterday I participated in the Major Fair, an event where new students have the opportunity to talk to faculty about majors they are interested in …
Corneal scarring 2: Losing depth perception

Previously on Onigiriman... "Back then, it was what it was, and you learned to live with irreparable scars and injuries. Indeed, after a week or so, my vision seemed to revert to normal. I thought it had healed itself,…
Corneal scarring...

A couple of comments asked about the corneal scar I mentioned in my last post. Well, it isn't as dramatic as Onigiri might imagine--no, I did not get stabbed in the eye like your cousin. Whew! Now that would be a story t…
Lycopene heaven

I love tomatoes. So the current outbreak of salmonella is very disturbing. Then I heard what it was that spreads salmonella to the tomatoes: fecal matter. One possibility is that feces can be directly spread by animals w…
I'm hungry...

But it's 4 AM and if I ate anything right now, it would go straight to my waist. I've been hovering around the 160 lbs. mark for the past three weekends. M--bless her heart--bought four (4) bags of Doritos last weekend: …
Embarrassed

Everything I think about these days seems to be related to aging. Even the things I don't want to think about are age related. Like my memory. I used to drop gingko biloba regularly but stopped this past summer as I had …

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