The books currently within reach are Half-Blood Prince, a very boring book called "A History of Mathematics," (well, the topic is interesting, but the writing is really boring), and a vegetarian slow-cooker cookbook. I think I'm going to need to actually get up and walk to the bookshelf (all the way on the other side of the room) to find something else to read. (I want to read more of The Big Sleep, but I don't really have the brain power to follow the plot right now.)

Short stories and magazines are good for me when I can't concentrate. I don't know if that translates to mental fog.

Hil I am hypothyroid, I think there's a few other buffistas as well. Feel free to email me any questions if you want. Not that I'm an expert or anything, but I've been through a few rounds.

If you are right in the middle of the foggy blues that come with being hypothyroid, I can promise you that treatment is very effective.

Also, I'm curious, what are the wackaloon theories you've come across?

Thanks, Burrell.

Various whackaloon theories: It's caused by fluoride in the water. Way more people have it than suspected, because the blood tests are all wrong. And a few pages claiming that pretty much every health problem that doesn't have an obvious cause is actually caused by hypothyroidism.

If you are right in the middle of the foggy blues that come with being hypothyroid, I can promise you that treatment is very effective.

Very much hope so. Falling asleep in the middle of a meeting with my advisor, as I did last week, is something I really don't want to repeat.

Falling asleep? Oh dear, yeah you won't stay wicked tired like that.

And a few pages claiming that pretty much every health problem that doesn't have an obvious cause is actually caused by hypothyroidism.

Really?! Now see I thought that everything was caused by candidia or a yeast infection or whatever it's called.

Now see I thought that everything was caused by candidia or a yeast infection or whatever it's called.

...which is caused by hypothyroidism, right? :)

Weird Al is playing in LA on the 20th of October. I really want to get tickets for this.

plbbbbt!

That's me sticking my tongue at you, Smartypants!

{eta: uh, not at you ND}

And I really haven't been able to do any work on my thesis lately. Just much too exhausted to get anything done. I think that, for tomorrow, I'm going to forget about getting any research done, and just work on catching up on grading, which requires far less brainpower.

That's me sticking my tongue at you, Smartypants!

Well, I'm sure you would've gone there too...if the hypothyroid hadn't EATEN YOUR BRAIN!

Um, I do kinda wonder if I am hypothyroid, sometimes. But then I think I'm just unlucky, and I'm on the high end of the bell curve for how much sleep I want. Sigh.