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.

Comments

[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.