Camping!

I'm off to the woods. No shower, no electricity, no problem. :)

Oops

Just picked up a refill of my cabergoline prescription. I'm supposed to take it twice a week. The pill bottle says to take twice a day. Good thing I pay attention to what I know I'm supposed to be doing. And that I'm not litigious.

Convocation

Sorry for not posting, but my life at the moment is all convocation all the time. Until Saturday evening. I'm even dreaming (nightmares) about convocation. This will mean nothing to any of you, but convocation has drastically changed this year, and I'm planning a ceremony that has never existed until now. Wheeeeee! Normally I'd be in summer mode at work by now.


On the upside, we're getting a new bed (finally), so maybe after convocation is over I will actually be able to sleep through the night. Maybe.

Teaching

For reasons I don't entirely remember, I agreed to give a talk this week to a P-h-i-l-o-s-o-p-h-y of A-r-c-h-i-t-e-c-t-u-r-e class. And strangely, this has nothing to do with Matthew. Anyway, what may have seemed like fun when I agreed to do a couple of months ago now seems like work. I'm not writing anything new--it's all based on my MA thesis--but I haven't thought about any of this in a long time and trying to figure out how to best present it in a short amount of time is not easy.

Doped up

I started the medicine last night. My doctor put me on cabergoline instead of bromocriptine, which I know means nothing to anyone. But, what it means to me is that I'm less likely to have side effects, and I only take the drug twice a week instead of twice a day. Cabergoline is supposedly more expensive, but I have (thankfully!) very good health insurance, so it's cheap for me. I'm on a ridiculously low dose for the first two weeks. I feel what I think could be side effects-- kind of feel like I'm in a daze-- but I'm guessing that's probably just anxiety about the medicine, rather then the medicine itself. :) I read a fascinating study of this drug that showed what percentage of people on the drug experienced different side effects but then showed what percentage of people on a placebo experienced those side effects. 27% of people on the cabergoline felt nauseous, but 20% of people on the placebo felt nauseous too! So, I'm trying to ignore side effects and hope they're in my head.