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Mostly good news
Jun. 25th, 2014 09:22 pmNot having a lot of luck getting into ESO lately. The server has been down for maintenance the last two nights and tonight it's downloading a patch. The server regularly goes down for maintenance on Monday or Tuesday and Thursday nights. It is scheduled for 8am North American time, which is probably a fairly sensible time for bringing a game down, except here it's prime playing time. And so I turn to the old faithful LJ...
Only one and a half more weeks of trying to do two jobs at once. It has actually settled down a bit in the last week. We have mostly gotten all the performance review and staffing change stuff that needed to be sorted out for the new financial year in place. This week I have managed to dedicate a couple of afternoons to actually doing real work. Note that I say mostly, though. There's still a couple of situations that have the potential to cause some pain in the near future.
After that I am going to Sydney for a week for the joint ASC/IMS conference. It's going to be a busy time (the sessions go from 8:30am to 6pm most days), and somehow my papers always seem to get scheduled in the early morning sessions at these things.
And then I will fall in a heap. Or, you know, maybe just relax and enjoy having only three meetings scheduled in a week instead of the three a day I seem to have been averaging lately.
I also finally went off and got my blood tests done, and the news is mostly good. Iron stores are still fairly low, but my haemoglobin is more than fine, and my circulating iron is quite high (in other words I'm not managing to put any iron away for a rainy day, but I am more or less keeping up with my body's rather high demands). My thyroid hormones are back to a level I feel more comfortable with, but my thyroid stimulating hormone levels are getting higher, and my anti-thyroid antibodies are also high. So, the Hashimoto's appears to have reactivated, but the extra medication I've been taking is kind of keeping me on top of it. So, on the whole, feeling fairly cheerful.
Only one and a half more weeks of trying to do two jobs at once. It has actually settled down a bit in the last week. We have mostly gotten all the performance review and staffing change stuff that needed to be sorted out for the new financial year in place. This week I have managed to dedicate a couple of afternoons to actually doing real work. Note that I say mostly, though. There's still a couple of situations that have the potential to cause some pain in the near future.
After that I am going to Sydney for a week for the joint ASC/IMS conference. It's going to be a busy time (the sessions go from 8:30am to 6pm most days), and somehow my papers always seem to get scheduled in the early morning sessions at these things.
And then I will fall in a heap. Or, you know, maybe just relax and enjoy having only three meetings scheduled in a week instead of the three a day I seem to have been averaging lately.
I also finally went off and got my blood tests done, and the news is mostly good. Iron stores are still fairly low, but my haemoglobin is more than fine, and my circulating iron is quite high (in other words I'm not managing to put any iron away for a rainy day, but I am more or less keeping up with my body's rather high demands). My thyroid hormones are back to a level I feel more comfortable with, but my thyroid stimulating hormone levels are getting higher, and my anti-thyroid antibodies are also high. So, the Hashimoto's appears to have reactivated, but the extra medication I've been taking is kind of keeping me on top of it. So, on the whole, feeling fairly cheerful.
