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.

I'm like Ginger - right dominant with hand, eye and foot; left dominant ear.

Both my parents were natural lefties, who had been forced to learn to write right-handed due to craziness of educational theories way back when. When my dad took up golf, he found he was much better playing left-handed.

A therapist I saw briefly a few years ago said that any one with left dominance in hands, eyes, ears or feet was more vulnerable than all-righties to addiction.

JZ HAS A HO AT WORK

She makes me oddly happy in a melancholy sort of way

My god, she's Drusilla.

I wonder why there are so few happy portraits from that era.

CINDY ARE YOU CAPSLOCKING BECAUSE STACKING CATS HAS CRIPPLED YOUR EYES AND YOU CAN'T READ LOWERCASE ANY MORE?

I just love my Hoe. I have a big lost-history crush on her. She's so pretty and serious and so young-looking to be a Mrs., and I will never know her name. I'm crushing on a picture!

IOmeN: I had an annual performance review at work today. Most of it is all right. Some lower scores than I would have expected, but I understand that most of it is subjective anyway. But, my boss added a couple of comments at the end...

"Elizabeth is a kind person who, in general means well. She is very enthusiastic about her position. I feel we have done her a disservice by hiring her into this position without the required professionalism, judgment and maturity."

WHAT THE HELL?!

(At least I still have a job, but I'm starting to look around for a new one.)

beathen, WTF? What kind of backhanded insult is THAT?

CINDY ARE YOU CAPSLOCKING BECAUSE STACKING CATS HAS CRIPPLED YOUR EYES AND YOU CAN'T READ LOWERCASE ANY MORE?

BWAH!

I've been good about staying away from the crack cats.