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On Christmas and eyes and writing
Nov. 27th, 2011 12:30 pmToday is the first Sunday of Advent, so I went and dug out last year's Christmas layout. Isn's that fat, fluffy robin cute?
I was browsing through the TV guide the other day and finally found out why the white part of my left eye is blueish. There was a short article about Daniela Ruah from NCIS:LA with a few quotes from her. In one of them she mentioned having mismatched eyes and I thought "Cool, I have mismatched eyes too!" As I read the whole thing I found out that not only is her right iris darker than the left one, but also the sclera (the white part) is darker. And my eyes are like that too, only that for me it's the left eye. That's a hyperpigmentation called "Nevus of Ota" and, according to Wikipedia, it can either be congenital or appear during puberty. As far as I know, my eyes have always been of two different colours (dark brown and hazel), but we only noticed that the sclera was blueish when I was in middle school. I even spent a whole afternoon with doctors testing my eyes, only to hear "Um, we have no idea what that is. But you have rather delicate eyes." Well, you try spending hours staring into various machines while people drip weird stuff in your eyes.
I never thought I'd find the reason for that in a TV magazine of all places! Here's what Daniela Ruah's eyes look like:
My eyes don't usually stand out like that, maybe because I wear glasses most of the time, but sometimes my right eye colour gets lighter and brighter, especially on sunny summer days, and when it does, the difference is pretty noticeable. A few people said it looks kind of spooky, but I like having mismatched eyes. :)
In other news: the writing sample for the workshop is done! \o/ Now onto the Statement of Purpose. D:
I was browsing through the TV guide the other day and finally found out why the white part of my left eye is blueish. There was a short article about Daniela Ruah from NCIS:LA with a few quotes from her. In one of them she mentioned having mismatched eyes and I thought "Cool, I have mismatched eyes too!" As I read the whole thing I found out that not only is her right iris darker than the left one, but also the sclera (the white part) is darker. And my eyes are like that too, only that for me it's the left eye. That's a hyperpigmentation called "Nevus of Ota" and, according to Wikipedia, it can either be congenital or appear during puberty. As far as I know, my eyes have always been of two different colours (dark brown and hazel), but we only noticed that the sclera was blueish when I was in middle school. I even spent a whole afternoon with doctors testing my eyes, only to hear "Um, we have no idea what that is. But you have rather delicate eyes." Well, you try spending hours staring into various machines while people drip weird stuff in your eyes.
I never thought I'd find the reason for that in a TV magazine of all places! Here's what Daniela Ruah's eyes look like:
My eyes don't usually stand out like that, maybe because I wear glasses most of the time, but sometimes my right eye colour gets lighter and brighter, especially on sunny summer days, and when it does, the difference is pretty noticeable. A few people said it looks kind of spooky, but I like having mismatched eyes. :)
In other news: the writing sample for the workshop is done! \o/ Now onto the Statement of Purpose. D:
