Toddson, yeah, they had me on a couple things and now I'm like "maybe one of these things would be enough!"

Oy. I didn't get much sleep last night, because I was in a whole lot of pain, and my painkiller prescription couldn't be refilled until today. (And I couldn't do my usual thing of taking a bunch of Advil, because my doctor thinks that could have been what caused my stomach bleeding.) But I got an hour or so of sleep, then woke up with my alarm, then got up and sat on the couch, and then fell back asleep. Then I woke up at 8:30. My first class is at 8. So, yeah. I totally screwed that up.

When I went to tell the course coordinator (who's also a good friend of mine) that I missed the class, I started crying in her office. She said that everyone who teaches an 8 AM class has done that once. And she told me that she was crying in her office yesterday because she was rejected for a grant she applied for, so maybe it was just my turn to have a crying in the office day, so that made me feel better. And she just stopped by my office and gave me a squeezy stress-release thingy that looks like a turtle. And I emailed the assistant department head, who we're supposed to email if we miss any classes, and he didn't react as if I were a complete flake, so that's good.

Feel better, Hil. And if it helps, I have a story.

The professor for an 8:00 class called the TA (me) to say that he'd be in class the next day despite record cold weather and patches of ice on the roads. So when he didn't show up, all I could tell the students was that he told me he would be there. At 8:15, I let the class go, mainly because students were already leaving.

As I see it, you're ahead of my professor. Because you didn't make a point of telling someone that you'd be in class today.

That course co-ordinator sounds like a very good person.

Garbage family has a U-Haul and is moving shit out of the house across the street. Words don't exist to express how happy I am about this. I wish they would load the U-Haul faster and GTFO.

I'm glad you don't have to stress about them anymore, Steph.

Steph, I could use your pharmcological knowledge. Do you know enough about the differences between Lexapro and Celexa to offer odds that if I have insomnia and excessive sweating with Lexapro, that Celexa would do the same to me? I'm having leg cramps with the Effexor. My primary care NP says that if I want to try Celexa, OK, but other than that, it's time for me to have a proper psychiatry consult.

Not Steph, but I take Celexa and have excessive sweating and insomnia. I actually reported excessive sweating before it was an official side effect, in the late 90's. But everyone's bodies are different, so I am just one data point. I have stayed with the Celexa despite it, and the sweating at least has gotten a lot better and I have the kind of job where being an insomniac means I can do a lot of work in the middle of the night, and then come in late (which you do not)

Sorry, Andi -- I went to bed early last night. Lexapro is pharmacologically very similar to Celexa (Celexa has 2 parts, called R-citalopram and S-citalopram, and Lexapro only has 1 part, the S-citalopram). Since they're similar, you might have problems with Celexa. But you also might not, because people's bodies and how they metabolize drugs are just plain weird.

It is so damn frustrating to try to find an antidepressant that works and has no side effects (or tolerable side effects).

Thanks, Steph and Sophia. I'm leaning toward the psychiatry consult.