Mmmmmmmmm, coffee!!!!
12/13/2008 09:40 p.m.

A "YAY" moment for sure....I'm getting a new computer with the overage from the grant money this term. It's a very good thing! The computer I'm currently using is nearly 10 years old - beefy in its day - 30GB hard drive, 256MB of memory. Laughable by today's standards, I know. Cuz now, the hard drive is 98% full (not even enough room to do a defrag) and the computer can't keep up with how fast the cable internet service wants to dump things into the comptuer. Even the anti-virus bogs down. Hehe. So, a new computer. 640GB hard drive, 8GB 2.4mhz processor, 4GB of DDR memory, a DVD writable drive, a flat panel monitor....good stuff and my time on the internet won't be half-spent waiting.

(Warning - this next bit touches female physiology issues.....)

AND, my health insurance is finally approved. I have a dr's appt on the 16th. It will definitely be good to have the medical advice of the practitioner I chose. My most recent female cycle has lasted more than 3 weeks so far (and is still going)!!!I ended up in the ER this last week thanks to the advice of a medical assistant who didn't want me to go the weekend without finding out if my hemoglobin and hematocrit were ok. They were both just on the brink of below normal/barely above normal, but not in the dangerously low category. So I'm supposed to take a little extra iron to get me through this rough patch, but other than that, the lab results were ok. Beyond that, I might ultimately be looking at female surgery to address the excessive cycles of late. I would see that as a good thing, really, since I wouldn't have to worry about cycles anymore, but surgery....ehhhh. I'm not fond of going under for any reason, being the control freak/hospital hater/conspiracy theorist I am. Anyway, I'm getting ahead of myself. We'll see.

Not that I really expect anyone to be THIS interested in my health. But this has become the place where I seem to be doing most of my journaling of late, so there it is.

I am currently: cold
Listening to: the weather worsen