Susan, you absolutely have my sympathy. I have days when I just wish I'd never switched on bloody computer, because it seems clear to me that I'm saying x, and due to tiredness/hunger/whatever the hell it just comes out as y.

I can't imagine that people wouldn't give you a break, love. I didn't think you sounded like a madwoman here, and I'm sure you didn't there either.

Like, is it a precursor to diabetes

More likely it's a precursor to low blood sugar and the joys attendant therein. But I'm not a doctor nor do I play one on the internet. If you seriously think you're at danger for diabetes, a very quick blood test will tell you.

Like, is it a precursor to diabetes, or am I kidding myself that it's all about food and I need to go back to the therapist, or what.

Susan, speaking as someone who turns feral if her blood sugar takes even a slight dip below normal and has had extensive bloodwork done - you're probably not crazy or pre-diabetic. I keep fruit leather in my purse and granola bars in my bag to combat The Feral Kid. It's just how I'm wired.

Susan, I have no words of advice on the food/blood sugar front, but I hope you're able to figure it out.

Fay, all fingers and toes are crossed for you. I'm assuming if you get this job that you'd be able to stay in Foreign Parts?

Yes, it's out here, and it seems to be a really big & shiny school that will actually have resources. It's a new school, but it's part of a big chain and it's the UK sister-school to an existing & very reputable US school already here. If I get the job, I'll be in on the foundation of the school and should be able to help shape it. It sounds really cool. The money's not brilliant, but it's a trifle more than I'm on now and they pay more towards rent money than my present employers.

The prospect of signing on for another year with my Evil Boss is just horrifying - and yet I really do like living here, and would like to stay for another year or two. Insh'allah.

Fay, I hope he kept your portfolio because he was so impressed with it he wanted to show it off to many other people and has gotten all frazzled at the excitement of hiring you so that he forgot to call and will smack himself in the head soon and call you with the offer.

I created a mail merge two days ago, containing 600 2-page letters. Client said it's too many. He didn't expect so much signing! Please to cut to 300 letters. I cut to 300 letters. He wrote back this morning saying there were 600 pages, and did I not get the memo to cut to 300 letters? He was having another employee send me a revised list of clients to receive. Please to cut again. The revised list contained 159 clients. I cut again. He still has 300 pages. I explained, gently, that a 2-page letter to 300 clients will be about 600 pages long, and that's why it was so big the second time.

Aidan's vision therapist will be here in an hour. I'm actually on a work roll. I have to stop and clean up the dirty cookie faces and tidy up the living room. Damn it.

More likely it's a precursor to low blood sugar and the joys attendant therein. But I'm not a doctor nor do I play one on the internet. If you seriously think you're at danger for diabetes, a very quick blood test will tell you.

One of my older brothers has it, so I get a blood test every year. So far my blood sugar has always been right in the middle of the normal range. And I've always tended to go a bit feral (that's a perfect description of it, juliana) when my blood sugar drops, but these last two times were unusually bad.

I really need and want to lose 30 lbs., but I'm not sure how I'm going to manage it. It's especially hard on days where I have any kind of evening plans--including my weekly choir practice and writers group--because that delays dinner, and it seems like I'm most vulnerable to the crashes between 3:00 and 8:00 p.m.

Idiot client!

Susan -- my advice would be talk to your doctor about this, maybe she can help.

Hmm. Technically I'm not due for my annual physical until next month, but I guess it wouldn't hurt to go in early.