Word: ocular
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Angela Jefferson, 36, wakes up to the insistent patter of a HealthWatch Model 9000 alarm clock. "Today is Monday, and the time is 6 a.m.," the little box chirps. Angela stares at its smooth, blue face long enough for the embedded microlaser to scan the back of her eye. "Ocular pressure, blood pressure and carbon-dioxide levels normal," the alarm clock reports. "But you are dehydrated. I'll signal the refrigerator to fix you an electrolyte cocktail...
...answer your questions. Be sure to tell the doctor if you or anyone in your family has ever had a corneal disorder, diabetes or an autoimmune disease. Such conditions may increase the chances that laser surgery will severely damage your eyesight. If you have particularly dry eyes or an ocular herpes infection, you aren't a good candidate either. If the first surgeon turns you down, don't go shopping for another...
...plugging my tear ducts (outgoing, not incoming) to keep my eyes moist. A little improvement, which reversed when the temporary plugs dissolved. Another round hasn't helped much. The next step is permanent plugs, supposedly to create a tighter seal. I'm still soaking up bottled tears like an ocular desert and putting moisture goop in my eyes every night...
...across campus and may even stretch to other colleges. A friend at Amherst told me that a housing administrator admitted to him that dorm room lights were only supposed to be sufficient to find the switch for another light. If this is also the case at Harvard, a serious ocular injustice is occurring here. We may not need cable TV, and we now have two-ply toilet paper, but we desperately need light...
...later find. And there were moments of atmospheric appreciation at other times while I was an undergraduate: Lowell House's small courtyard, accessorized with snow and red mittens, is perhaps my favorite visual image, along with the sight of the blue bell tower from the river (not a wholly ocular confrontation, I confess--this sight was always accompanied by some narration like "Hey, I know somebody who lives there...