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By kate on January 4th, 2003

I have blue hair. When I was in Australia, I dyed my hair blue, because it was just one of those things I had to do once in my life. I kept it for a week, then dyed it black when we went on to Indonesia. The problem was, I loved it. For the next […]

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My Inkless Tattoos

By kate on December 3rd, 2002

In April of 1999, I got laser eye surgery (you can read about that here). Letting a doctor scrape at my eyes took some degree of bravery, so I wanted to commemorate it with a ritual of some kind. I searched around for just the right idea, and finally hit upon the idea of an […]

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Eye Surgery: Entry Eight

By kate on May 9th, 2000

AVOIDING EYE STRAIN I have installed a program called Break Reminder on my PC. It pops up every 10 minutes (or whatever interval you want) to remind you to take a “micropause” – looking away and/or stretching for a number of seconds (also configurable). When it pops up, I spend ten seconds looking out my […]

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Eye Surgery: Entry Seven

By kate on May 8th, 2000

A WHODUNIT My left eye continued to regress until it was almost 20/40. I got a stronger prescription for the contact I was wearing. As the months went by, I was gritting it out until a year after the surgery, at which point the eye doctor would assess whether the regression had finished and if […]

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Eye Surgery: Entry Six

By kate on January 20th, 2000

Just when I thought it was all over, it wasn’t. Starting in about November, my left eye began “regressing” a little, to 20/25, and now 20/30. My right eye continues to be 20/20, so the difference between the two began to give me headaches. I visited the eye doctor today, and we discussed my options. […]

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Eye Surgery: Entry Five

By kate on July 25th, 1999

The first two days after the surgery were a haze of blurriness, tired eyes, and light sensitivity. I could only do things for a short amount of time before my eyes got tired. It was difficult, because my mind was restless and there wasn’t much I could do (read, use the computer, etc.) because of […]