Take five minutes to read this page:

http://beyondtalk.net/

(I suspect few people will sign up for option A, but option B may be attractive... And yes, this is mainly an American initiative so far, but hey, maybe if enough international people sign up it will spread. *g*)

And, for the Brits:

http://www.climatecamp.org.uk/

Started today, will last until 2. September. Sounds/looks *vastly* superior to the German version I attended for a few hours last weekend, in terms of organisation and effectiveness. So, if you're anywhere near London, and even just vaguely interested in the future of the planet and everything that lives on it, including humanity - check it out.

It's time for my semi-annual health scare.

For the last two or three months I've had really odd problems with my right eye. It's hard to describe... I don't really consciously see worse than I used to, but it feels as if there's some kind of mist/shadow in my field of vision anyway - but it's more a feeling, I can't really say 'in the top right corner of my field of vision everything gets blurry' or anything.

I've seen a doctor about it, but she didn't even look at my eye, she just tested my eyesight, determined that I'm nearsighted (which I already knew), and said that that must be it. But I've been nearsighted for 17 years without ever experiencing this symptom, which started quite suddenly around June.

I have made an appointment at another doctor's in September, but I'm going a little bit crazy with worry here... So: is there anybody out there who has experienced the same kind of symptoms, and had it turn out to be something quite harmless, like, I dunno, too much stress, dry eyes, something like that? I'd like some reassurance that, well, to be honest, that there's not something potentially fatal happening inside my eye.