Nation's Optometrists Finally Starting To Recover After Raucous Optic Disc Expo 2011
It's pretty exciting when The Onion parodies something specific to your own life. Not that I think the writers of the article had ARVO (the vision conference we attend almost every year in Ft. Lauderdale) in mind, but they got some great coaching on eyeball terms.
An excerpt:
While days were reportedly filled with "mind-blowing," "wild," and "f***ing amazing" presentations on hyperopia in baby boomers and new ways of reducing bilateral papilledema, optometrists said they also spent long nights in their hotel rooms talking with colleagues well into the morning hours on wide-ranging topics such as the vessels that supply blood to the retina and slit-lamp biomicroscopic examinations.
The eye specialists told reporters that when they returned home from the intense weekend of nonstop optic disc lectures and discussions they "immediately passed out."
"I got maybe three hours of sleep the entire expo," said Dr. Cyrus Patel, who had to cancel nearly 40 appointments this week because he was too exhausted to go into work. "I kept telling myself I was allowed only one more optic disc drusen seminar and then I had to go to bed, but that would mean missing Dr. Lappen's keynote on optical coherence tomography, and it's like, you only live once, you know? It's not like there's another Optic Disc Expo next month. This is it for 2011."
Yesterday was not the funnest day ever at work (at least the AC was fixed), so it was a great surprise when someone found this at 4pm. I need to go raid the bins to get a couple paper copies. As someone who spends waaayyyyy to much time thinking about "vessels that supply blood to the retina"- heck I'm hoping to have three papers on that topic accepted this year- that was probably my favorite line. I've talked that topic to death but fortunately not in the wee hours of the morning. Unless I was having nightmares.
Things are basically back to normal with the cooling systems on campus, and the gym is open again today. I'm chugging coffee to try to wake up because we were out late last night at the Gillian Welch concert (fantastic!). Hopefully I won't have to fight anyone for the squat rack as I am feeling slow and dimwitted. Have any fun plans for the weekend? My sleep schedule is going to be further disrupted by seeing a friend play a show Saturday night, but that's about it other than the usual chores, etc.
