Bastet has figured out how to open the freezer. Yay.

Now Bastet can get you a bowl of ice cream.

Now Bastet can get you a bowl of ice cream.

Ooooo...I like that idea. At this point, though, I'd be happier if she could make some dinner. I seem to be getting Emily's cold. Yay again.

Oh, and the police are outside saying, "Take a walk. Take a walk now." I'm afraid to look at see what's going on.

There is some speculation that people with cross-dominance, i.e., right handed and left eyed, are more clumsy.

As lisah said, this would explain a lot. I'm right handed w/ left eye dominance, but that may because the optic nerve in my right eye got deep-fried by a case of scarlet fever when I was a wee one. (I'm severely tunnel-blind in the right eye--it's like I'm going through life looking through a paper towel tube with gauze over the end)

Jilli, NONONONONONONO.

People have permanently lost their sense of smell from Zicam.

Off to find links.

Intranasal zinc is a very bad idea. There are several class-action suits.

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Intranasal zinc is a very bad idea. There are several class-action suits.

Ah. Well, I guess not, then.

So mindlessly happy right now. I've been toting around through two or three moves over many, many years a portrait from a turn-of-the-century photographer's studio in NYC of an incredibly lovely and serious young woman identified only in scrawly handwriting on the back as "Mrs. James Hoe." And yesterday I heard some incredibly depressing news about a beloved relative and desperately needed something with which to distract myself, so I brought Mrs. Hoe in to work, scanned her in, and have started playing with her. She makes me oddly happy in a melancholy sort of way.

There is some speculation that people with cross-dominance, i.e., right handed and left eyed, are more clumsy.

What's fun about my eyes is that I have an astigmatism in both of them but not in the same way. My left eye is far sighted and my right eye is near sighted. I HAVE to wear contacts or glasses because without them my vision is blurry both near and far. In that case I'm more clumsy, but I've never really noticed any major hinderances with my contacts in.

OK-- I appear to be left-eyed even though my let eye is 20/400 and my right 20/100.

I am right handed, but I may have been switched (my mother claims I used to reach for everything with my left hand, so she moved everything in my crib so that I couls get at it right handedly).

Also, am semi clumsy (in that I fall a lot, but also can tap dance decently)

Hmm. I am right-handed and right-eyed. I don't know if this has changed since the vision loss in my left eye. I know that things that were once fairly easy to focus on are no longer that easy. I have to force the left eye to move over and focus with the right eye anymore. Plus, some objects at certain distances can never be brought into alignment with each eye, I see double at those distances. However, I've always been slightly depth perception challenged just by virtue of the extremity of near-sightedness in both eyes (20/1000 left and 20/875 right.) Hence, clumsy in ways you wouldn't believe but relatively adept at others. I used to be able to finish the expert level of minesweeper in 80 seconds. Anymore, 110-120 seconds is a good score for me.

And, just because I skipped like a stone across the Mackinaw Straits, if anyone was requesting hugs and hairpats in the last few days, I offer them in retrospect. Also, I wanted to tell P-C I read his article and found it very interesting, topical and understandable. Excellent science writing.