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He'd had the sense, moments earlier, that Caroline was on the verge of accusing him of being "depressed," and he was afraid that if the idea that he was depressed gained currency, he would forfeit his right to his opinions. He would forfeit his moral certainties; every word he spoke would become a symptom of disease; he would never win an argument.

— Jonathan Franzen


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READIN started out as a place for me to keep track of what I am reading, and to learn (slowly, slowly) how to design a web site.

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🦋 Prescription

For the last several months I've been thinking I should really get to the optometrist and have my glasses prescription checked -- using larger fonts on the computer than I had been, just generally feeling like I'm squinting too much... Finally made it over there on Tuesday. (I have this weird aversion to medical care, not sure what's up with that -- I need to schedule a routine physical too, which I haven't done for a couple of years.) Well my eyes have indeed changed -- going back today to order my lenses and to take a glaucoma test, which the doctor thought was indicated. Gosh I hope I don't have the glaucomas! Looking forward to the new lenses though.

posted morning of Friday, January 23rd, 2009

Glaucoma test is routine, at least at my optometrist. They want to check that every year.

posted morning of January 23rd, 2009 by Daddio

Right, but I'm ~25 years younger than you...

posted afternoon of January 23rd, 2009 by Jeremy

good luck with this. i especially empathize.

posted afternoon of January 23rd, 2009 by badger

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