No word on the "eye" issue.  It's moved to the back of my mind, where it fits better in reference to my everyday life.  School is going well and we've just started reductive drawing.  I'm really falling in love with drawing the human figure again..more than I ever was before.  I never was one for realism, but there is a joy to capturing the form and making something beautiful in it's rendering that cannot be described.  I often feel tears of joy coming to the surface while drawing now and it is a truly beautiful experience.  
     Paintings lately have been a mess, so I guess I'm in an interem phase with that at the moment.  The studio is a disaster area, so cleaning it up may free me up some.  Its nice to be working from the figure to assuage my usual desire to administer internal beatings when things don't go right in the studio.  I can tell myself, no you don't suck, look at your drawings.  Its funny but when I'm doing abstract work, I worry that people won't think it's real art or it's easy.  But actually, it's harder than drawing the figure or working realistically in my opinion.  There's nothing to go on, nothing to "copy", no roadmap.
     I've pulled out an old life size self portrait called "Ophelia Rising" that was started and never finished when I lived in Philadelphia.  It is on the WIP page.  I think I am ready to finish it now.  It's just a matter of confidence and fighting off the feeling that I may ruin it.  Recently at work, my boss said to me that all I needed was more confidence and I think she was right.  It's almost as if I'm waiting to get in trouble for something.  What is that?  I just don't know, I'll leave it at that for now.     
     Currently in class, we are working on copying a master work.  I really enjoy this project and I am learning alot.  As much as my ego and authority issues fight each assignment, I have to admit that I am loving it, secretly.  More to tell in the coming days...