Various updates

[dvandom]

A TA turned out to have changed his course schedule without telling me, and needed to have his teaching assignment changed. Fortunately it was a simple solution, if not a great one (which involved putting a rank newbie into the first class of the week). Also just got given another TA to find work for, but this one solves a nagging issue where I'd stuck a guy with back to back classes.

Went to the doctor today, things going fine, no earwax in my ears, and my cholesterol is 110 (I'm told that sub-100 would be nice, but 110 isn't bad, especially since my blood pressure is so low I have to worry about rising from a squat too quickly lest I pass out!).

Edit: Oh, and tonight I make couscous for the first time. Been getting tired of rice, and the last few times I've had rice my blood sugar spiked, so time to try something else anyway. ;) I found I still have a teeny saucepan sitting around that's the right size for making a single serving.

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[foomf.livejournal.com]

So the bodily adapatations to pumping syrup through a body that was too out-of-shape to help enough has resulted in a tremendously over-efficient mechanism that doesn't think it has to work very hard at all.

Wow. I hope mine improves that way soon :)

[dvandom.livejournal.com]

Well, in high school I'd actually tested at 88/54 junior year. Then 160/100 senior year, at which point I cut out caffeine for a few years. :) Then 120/50 during frosh year of college (the high upper number was in part because I was tested right after climbing several flights of stairs), and it settled down to 120/80 range for a long time. But recently I regularly get the diastolic number in the neighborhood of 60...in fact, there's some diabetes meds my doctor wouldn't think of putting me on right now even if I had blood sugar problems, since they depress blood pressure. :)

[foomf.livejournal.com]

Hm. Designed to run on a different grade of oil, huh?

My own problems are due almost exclusively to a woeful inactivity.

[foomf.livejournal.com]

I use quinoa and/or brown rice, and the spike is less severe. You can get brown versions of short-grain, jasmine, and several other varietals which have different flavors.

Still, have to be very careful even with that.

[dvandom.livejournal.com]

Well, I've mainly been getting tired of the cleanup rice brings. I like basmati, but it bakes to the saucepan. Couscous is not only quicker, it's a LOT neater in terms of the way it's prepared. No baked on bits or anything. I'll know in a couple hours how it does with glucose levels. :)

[dvandom.livejournal.com]

No better than the rice on glucose, sigh. In fact, since I used less of it than I have of rice, it may even be worse. Well, I'll give it a few more trials before calling it a Bad Idea.

[foomf.livejournal.com]

I use a rice cooker myself, but I have to freeze any leftover or I eat it too soon.

[dvandom.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I used a rice cooker for a while, but I tend not to treat teflon coatings well, and it was starting to get scraped.

[foomf.livejournal.com]

Dude. Wood or plastic only. Teflon is not good for you if you scrape it. Yeah, the fluorine compound itself isn't necessarily dangerous, but the killer GLUE they use to hold it on the pan is nasty stuff.

[gary-williams.livejournal.com]

my blood pressure is so low I have to worry about rising from a squat too quickly lest I pass out!

I tend to get light-headed if I stand up, roll over in bed, or tilt my head back too quickly. In recent years I've begun to suspect it's due to low blood pressure. When I get light-headed in this manner, the only thing that seems to return me to feeling normal is to look down (or roll face-down). Does doing this have any effect on you?

[dvandom.livejournal.com]

It passes on its own for me after a moment. I'll try looking down next time it happens and see if that helps, though.