Not dead, nor even sleeping.
So, it’s been months since my last post. I wasn’t lying then; I really have been in the wars. More so, lately – the day after I wrote that post, I came down with acute allergic conjunctivits, which has since turned into chronic allergic conjunctivitis. My opthalmologist is of little help. The gist is, I have constantly red eyes and, after about eight hours awake each day, they’re so full of goop I can barely see. Further, my vision’s currently impaired; I’m down to about 6/20 vision at the moment.
All of this has conspired to rather disconnect me from the world. It’s surprisingly hard to operate when you can’t see far or clearly, and as a result I’ve been moderately depressed and inactive. I certainly haven’t achieved much in the last three months. I’m studying – currently enrolled in the Graduate Certificate of Information Management at QUT. My grades are good. I finished the Graduate Certificate in Business Administration last semester, with similarly good results – one pass, disappointingly enough, but the rest of my grades ranged from Credits to High Distinctions, for a final GPA of 5.65. I’m still hoping to go into information architecture as a career when I’m done; my goal at the moment (other than ‘getting better’) is to find an internship or work experience project of some kind. Better yet, a proper job over the summer break would be nice. The layabout student lifestyle is all very well, but my work ethic is starting to itch.
In the meantime, I’m going to be tweaking this blog a bit, and finally getting the rest of the site up and running. Things may go a bit wonky over the next few days; I’m hoping to upgrade to WP1.5, since I’m currently being deluged with comment spam. My WP plugins are stopping it for moderation, but I still have to delete hundreds of comments from the moderation queue every day, which is a bit excessive.
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October 15th, 2005 at 9:46 pm
Yeah that conjunctivitis is being a real bitch to you isn’t it :( huggles Have you tried an immune repair approach yet? Or has your opthalmologist been able to pin point exactly what’s causing the allergic reaction?
October 16th, 2005 at 2:23 am
Well, I’m on a different kind of eyedrop at the moment – it’s much more expensive, but my eyes do seem to be clearing up now. It’s preservative-free, so it may be that my eyes were reacting to the preservatives in the drops I was using before. We can hope!