Days of feeling nervous
Dec. 18th, 2001 11:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sanpaku_backupFirst, on the way home on Sunday Mrs. S. got rear-ended. Just a cracked bumper. But still. And the stupid insurance people have not called yet.
Then she noticed Felix's limp. Vet says it's OK, he just needs to relax. But he is still hopping around. Now I understand how cats get around with only 3 legs. I think the vet did not look very hard for his fifty-eight bucks.
Then Mrs. S. had a bad day at work yesterday and it was snowing and raining. Scary weather for her to be out in.
Then the computer finally went on the fritz. First IE wouldn't work. Then Outlook. Then Word. "Error type 2." God damn Macs! What does that mean? Spend hour waiting to talk to person from AppleCare who tells me to do what I've already been doing (those error messages only mean one thing: memory is screwed up. Play with the memory panels). At least he tried to help. I begin to panic when after throwing out everything I can find related to IE and reinstalling I still cannot get it to work. This machine is my life blood now. I need shit to work. So I end up reinstalling the whole system software and for now things are OK. I even managed to reinstall the printer driver after I cracked the CD-ROM that it came with (download was online). 6 hours wasted and much bile in the stomach.
Then today I get results of my bloodwork back from the doctor. This was something I hadn't meant to do. I had a physical in July and they took blood and I got a note from the doctor saying the cholesterol was high but that it was probably a false reading and to come in to have it rechecked. I promptly forgot about it. Then 2 weeks ago I go in for a flu shot and she decides, while I'm there, let's take the blood. I had eaten breakfast but she said it would be OK.
So today it comes in saying my good cholesterol is too low and my bad cholesterol can't even be tested because my triglycerides are 421 and good/normal is 200. "Overall cardiac risk 6.6 (Goal is <4.97)" she has written. And a prescription for Lipitor. Have a nice day.
Fuck! What the fuck? First of all, maybe a phone call would be nice before telling me I have to get old people medication? Explain what the hell this is? And is it possible that having eaten breakfast an hour and a half before would have made a difference? This doctor always projects an image of having no idea what is going on.
And it comes with this handout about foods low in fat. This makes no god damn sense. I have not eaten meat in I think about 4 months. And with Mrs. Sanpaku on a diet, the house has been thoroughly purged of all junk food, candy, ice cream, etc. I don't even eat butter because her low-carb diet precludes bread, so we don't have that around. My typical day's food is: cereal, coffee, orange juice, a veggie burger for lunch, maybe some vegetarian beans, a can of coke, and some of whatever Mrs. whips up for dinner (often something like a quesadilla, or vegetarian chili), maybe some pita and hummus, some broccoli... that's it! My entire diet is based on fake meat products. Other than cheese and whole milk, how much lower-fat could I possibly get?
Okay, I admit that I am pissed in part because I think 30 is too young to have to deal with this crap. At times it seems like it is all my parents ever talk about-- bloodwork this, triglycerides that. But I am certain that it has to be a mistake. But they won't act like it's a mistake, they'll tell me I need to exercise and all this other shit I don't need to hear.
Argh....
Mrs. S. is going down to Long Island on Thursday and I am nervous because they are calling for snow. I feel like there is a bad mojo vortex around right now. And understand that because I do not do Christmas, this time of year is nothing to me but a huge case of the agita. I have nothing against you enjoying it, really I don't, but for me, I have to go places in bad weather and wait in long lines and avoid malls and hear this monotonous music and all that. The edginess level is always up this time of year.
Oh, and I'm stressed out from working constantly (even if I do like it, it is constant) and I have to fly to San Francisco in two weeks and I still don't have any academic god damn job leads.
Losing it here, people.
Then she noticed Felix's limp. Vet says it's OK, he just needs to relax. But he is still hopping around. Now I understand how cats get around with only 3 legs. I think the vet did not look very hard for his fifty-eight bucks.
Then Mrs. S. had a bad day at work yesterday and it was snowing and raining. Scary weather for her to be out in.
Then the computer finally went on the fritz. First IE wouldn't work. Then Outlook. Then Word. "Error type 2." God damn Macs! What does that mean? Spend hour waiting to talk to person from AppleCare who tells me to do what I've already been doing (those error messages only mean one thing: memory is screwed up. Play with the memory panels). At least he tried to help. I begin to panic when after throwing out everything I can find related to IE and reinstalling I still cannot get it to work. This machine is my life blood now. I need shit to work. So I end up reinstalling the whole system software and for now things are OK. I even managed to reinstall the printer driver after I cracked the CD-ROM that it came with (download was online). 6 hours wasted and much bile in the stomach.
Then today I get results of my bloodwork back from the doctor. This was something I hadn't meant to do. I had a physical in July and they took blood and I got a note from the doctor saying the cholesterol was high but that it was probably a false reading and to come in to have it rechecked. I promptly forgot about it. Then 2 weeks ago I go in for a flu shot and she decides, while I'm there, let's take the blood. I had eaten breakfast but she said it would be OK.
So today it comes in saying my good cholesterol is too low and my bad cholesterol can't even be tested because my triglycerides are 421 and good/normal is 200. "Overall cardiac risk 6.6 (Goal is <4.97)" she has written. And a prescription for Lipitor. Have a nice day.
Fuck! What the fuck? First of all, maybe a phone call would be nice before telling me I have to get old people medication? Explain what the hell this is? And is it possible that having eaten breakfast an hour and a half before would have made a difference? This doctor always projects an image of having no idea what is going on.
And it comes with this handout about foods low in fat. This makes no god damn sense. I have not eaten meat in I think about 4 months. And with Mrs. Sanpaku on a diet, the house has been thoroughly purged of all junk food, candy, ice cream, etc. I don't even eat butter because her low-carb diet precludes bread, so we don't have that around. My typical day's food is: cereal, coffee, orange juice, a veggie burger for lunch, maybe some vegetarian beans, a can of coke, and some of whatever Mrs. whips up for dinner (often something like a quesadilla, or vegetarian chili), maybe some pita and hummus, some broccoli... that's it! My entire diet is based on fake meat products. Other than cheese and whole milk, how much lower-fat could I possibly get?
Okay, I admit that I am pissed in part because I think 30 is too young to have to deal with this crap. At times it seems like it is all my parents ever talk about-- bloodwork this, triglycerides that. But I am certain that it has to be a mistake. But they won't act like it's a mistake, they'll tell me I need to exercise and all this other shit I don't need to hear.
Argh....
Mrs. S. is going down to Long Island on Thursday and I am nervous because they are calling for snow. I feel like there is a bad mojo vortex around right now. And understand that because I do not do Christmas, this time of year is nothing to me but a huge case of the agita. I have nothing against you enjoying it, really I don't, but for me, I have to go places in bad weather and wait in long lines and avoid malls and hear this monotonous music and all that. The edginess level is always up this time of year.
Oh, and I'm stressed out from working constantly (even if I do like it, it is constant) and I have to fly to San Francisco in two weeks and I still don't have any academic god damn job leads.
Losing it here, people.
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Date: 2001-12-19 10:55 am (UTC)and while you're in s.f. - have some chinese food for me at house of nanking. best damn chinese food place ever. and the people are mean and the food is good and cheap. just the way i like.
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Date: 2001-12-19 11:42 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2001-12-19 04:34 pm (UTC)You're gonna be ok. ok?
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Date: 2001-12-19 04:36 pm (UTC)