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.

Anyone have any suggestions?

Well, there's this name I saw on a subscription list that I always thought came via Groucho: Edmund Q. Whipsnore, III.

Or someone's tagline on TT that I always loved: Fancy-pants Joey McPoodlespank (or skank, I memfault which)

And of course: Buffista Monkeypants!

t smacks Deena's idiot client

I hope the therapy appointment goes well.

I am back from therapy. I treated myself to a fancy coffee drink and a chocolate crossaint, because I decided I deserved it. I just took my first does of the new meds.

Susan, is WW still using the points system? Is it still largely based on how nutritionally dense foods are?

I found when I did it, with pretty decent success, what helped me the most was really eating not just less, but very healthily. I made sure to get the best whole grain breads I could find, ate a lot of veggies, etc., so I could get more food on the point system. I don't know how long you've been doing it, but I would say after the first week, my blood sugar adjusted and I actually felt better. For the mean time, I'd suggest doing what they recommend during pregnancy, and eat a lot of little meals/snacks, to keep more on an even keel. I hate that feeling. My sugar dropping is strongly tied to my vulnerability to anxiety attacks. eta

I am back from therapy. I treated myself to a fancy coffee drink and a chocolate crossaint, because I decided I deserved it. I just took my first does of the new meds.

Good for you, sj. I hope the meds kick in quickly for you, too.