Kat...that just sucks royally. I'm so sorry your distract is screwing you like that. I've experienced all too well the evils of school districts. I can feel your pain.

askye: so I take it you are at TCC? I've lived in a number of places in Central and Northern FL. I'm suffering serious withdrawals from "The Loop", "Coffee Pub", "Kool Beans", and several other Tally places. I hate the way "Mike's Beer Barn" was 'renovated'.

My cats largely avoid the computer screen, except to nuzzle it. However, one of the former familial cats LOVED it when we put on the war channel and there were jets. She'd dangle over the top and attack them.

Is the salt thing a bp raising issue? My dad has become obsessed with his bp. After decades of having low bp and heartrates, he's pinging normal. And having dizziness problems without an identifiable cause. So...bp monitor obsession. Being the obsessive scientist type he is, this means multiple readings all day long and spreadsheets. It's driving my mother nuts.

Yeah, they think if I can raise my BP I'll faint less.

Apparently Dutch process cocoa is high in sodium? [link]

High-salt foods (PDF file): [link]

hot chocolate as medicine. good times.

Hot chocolate cure most ills, doesn't it?

Less fainting sounds positive.

Linux has heart.

Hot chocolate cure most ills, doesn't it?

Yes

ita, I'm ready to kick some physician ass on your behalf. When I googled "intractable migraine" just now, the intravenous propofol treatment I keep pimping is on the first page of results, third entry down.

(I realize that Google results are based on number of hits, and don't necessarily correlate with "most useful" result, but I find it hard to believe people are Googlebombing migraine treatment pages.)

t edit It's actually on the first page of results *twice.* (Same treatment protocol, different Web pages.)