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I had so much happening yesterday that I didn't tell you about my bus ride. This was very negligent of me.

People were staring at me on the way to work. I was too tired to wonder much, so I just let them get on with it. About halfway there I remembered I had fluoresced the day before. I also remembered that the bus had fluorescent lights, it being after dark. I looked down at my hands and lo, I was glowing, faintly.

I'm afraid I spent the last few minutes of the bus ride analysing the glow and working out all the ways that glow-in-the-dark characters in movies are wrong. My twenty minutes of pretending I was a stray deity mixing with the hoi polloi are now lost, forever, not utilised.

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My Wednesday class was on fire today. We had three words of the day (chandelier, temporise and renaissance) and the latter led to a request for a reminder of which king was which and when in the Middle Ages.

Apart from this, we spent a lot of time on transits of Venus, Captain Cook, and reconciliation. We agreed that it was ironic that the transit of Venus occurred just after Reconciliation Week ends. To note this irony, J made sure that one of the word-art posters we did included Captain Cook, ironically.

Irony comes easily to this group. So does politics. I had a case of hiccups at one stage and one of the students turned to me and said "Tony Abbott." The hiccups were defeated. He maintains it was the shock; I maintain it was the laughter.

I did so many messages both before and after the eyes that I only have housework and one phone message to run before teaching tomorrow. Two hours of stuff, in toto. This means I can do actual work, and not minutiae. Life proceeds.

The eye? It was checked and re-checked and lasered. I am short a small amount of peripheral vision (but less than 2 years ago, when I lost over 25% - I think the amount of vision I recovered surprised everyone) and my eye is about as safe from blindness as it can be with modern medicine. I don't have to go back to the hospital for two months. This is good all round, though I did find the laser unnerving.

I keep thinking back to two years ago. It was only two years ago - the eye specialist reminded me of this. Comparing me now with me then and I've made stunning progress. I'm doing more than a normal day's work (study and paid work and various bits and pieces add up) and it took me a series of unhappy incidents to slow me down this much, right now.

I may whinge for a while to come, for I'm still sorting things out, but two years ago I was nearly dead and now I'm merely mopping up the mess and whingeing. It really is rather wonderful, when one stops to think.

I have so earned my special treat tonight: Geoscience Australia here I come!