Doctor's Visit Went Ok. Also, a pair of things that made me laugh...

BLOT: (29 Sep 2011 - 01:27:36 AM)

Doctor's Visit Went Ok. Also, a pair of things that made me laugh...

My day started with a check-up with my doctor. Just for some background, despite being overweight and not a regular exerciser in the gym sort of the word (though I probably pace more in a given day than your average gym-rat runs on a treadmill, as well walking about here and there), I have very few actual health problems. My blood pressure is a very tad high. My heart beat is a bit fast (and this is actually genetic from my mom, who has the same problem despite being short and petite). And my cholesterol is mostly ok except my HDL (aka "Good Cholesterol") tends to score low. The doctor put me on a low dosage of medicine meant to bring my blood pressure down, and it worked. What's better, it seems to stop those nose bleed causing spikes that I once had. The point of the check-up was largely to make sure the blood pressure was better on the meds, and that my HDL hadn't gotten even worse.

Well, my blood pressure is fine. My heart rate is still stupid and really random. And, drum roll, my HDL has come up into normal levels. Triglycerides are well in normal levels. And my LDL, which was only at the cusp of high last time, dropped a full 13 points. LDL could stand to be about 10 points lower, healthwise, but for the most part my body corrected. Keep in mind, I am now out of grad school, and who knows what grad school level stress does to body lipids and the like. Also, I now use a standing desk and apparently a big cause in low HDL is a sedimentary lifestyle, the kind where you plunk and don't get up. As I said, I make a poor plunker but this is a way to discourage even minor plunking. All in all, the visit was better than expected.

Except my stupid ankle that I complained about the other day is still a bother. The back of my heel feels squishy, so chances are I did something to my Achilles Tendon. Right now it has reached a point where it will be just fine for hours, and then suddenly the next step will cause me to stumble with pain. Due to that I moved my laptop out to the living room and have actually tried a bit of plunking today...which has made everything feel kind of weird and suck a little bit. After I finish this, I'm going back to the standing desk in my library, this no longer feels natural.

Enough with the medical ups and downs, on to other things. Like these two things that made me laugh. The first is a snippet that appeared on Steven Moffat's Wikipedia Page. It is perfectly safe for work, and the joke are the last pair of words under occupation. I personally would put that on my resume if it were me:

The second is a Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal skit about Evil George Lucas purposefully screwing up childhood joys. It is probably not safe for work [unless you work in a place where naked dads, masturbation, dinosaurs, and George Lucas are fine to talk about]. But it IS funny if you are a certain persuasion, and by this I mean the kind of person who watched the original, holy, trilogy dozens of times but now, with the prequels in mind, you feel a little nervous about even delving back in because your nostalgia dive will have to encounter memories of the other canon, the horrifying one.

Oh, and by the way, if you look down, you should see a photo of me surrounded by a black box. I've decided to get into the habit of taking a photo of myself around or about the time of writing the entry, and including it as a little glimpse into the utter normalcy and boredom that is my life. If the image looks skewed, and you are looking at this on my website and not through a feed, hit refresh. The new CSS to display it might not be loaded into your cache.

Me in 2011

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