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Hi shirebound! Happy belated birthday! I hope your day was a sweet and friendly as you are. May you joyously enter another year!

My A1c is down to low normal!

My migraine is almost gone, too!

I'll return soon with more.

Step Work—The Doctor’s Opinion—pp. xxx–xxxii

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My sponsor said back in 2011 the following, “I am physically powerless, mentally powerless. The main problem lives in the mind. To get to a place where we eat spiritually depends on our spiritual condition.”

Tis second film in the Apu Trilogy by Satiyagit Ray is sad, too. However, there is a glimmer of hope at the very end, when the adolescent Apu makes an important decision about his life. Beautiful cinematography and editing. This soundtrack is also by Ravi Shankar, as the first one was. There are no dances nor weddings, amedia.

Note that the film title isn't pronounced as in Spanish. I have no idea how is is pronounced in Bengali, so I use an aggresivly American pronounciation.

Today, B and I are going to a showing of the third film in the trilogy, The World of Apu. A review will follow.

Yesterday, my salivary gland increased its drainage. Yuck, but hurrah! This morning, the flow has stopped, but that will only be temporary. I drank two glasses of caffeinated soda this morning, which probably dried out that gland once more. I think that caffeine is the set-up condition for my infection because it dries out mucous membranes. I have had a smaller amount of swelling in that gland for over a year and a half, but it was only in April that the swelling increased with my associated pain and that pus-generated taste. I hope something can be done to restore the gland to its normal operation, but I realize that that is a faint hope. I don't see how the ENT doctor can scour out the old, sticky mucous (if that is indeed my problem).

I am so not looking forward to having a micro-sized camera on a probe shoved under my tongue!

Now that I have given you such an unpleasant thought, I am going back to bed. Yeah, it's 8 am as I write this, but I only had about 6 hours sleep last night. I drank a caffeinated Coke Zero too late in my day yesterday.

I'm going to try to post a pic now.

Hi. Here's what's going on with me.

1) I have more work than I thought to do within the next three weeks. OMG. I won't be here very much (or over on FB either, for that matter). But come May 22, I'll be back writing and commenting.

2) I took a math exam yesterday. Thanks to B's notes for me, and my hard work, I was able to answer 13 out of 16 questions. This is a lot better than I did the last time I took this test, where I could only come up with answers for 5 out of 16. I cried during the test, but that calmed me down enough to be able to carry on and finish. I walked out of there feeling much better about myself than I have felt in connection with any exam in a long time. Thank you to my math professor, as well, who suggested herself that I retake this exam.

I have another exam next Thursday. After that, it will be my final on May 21st. If I flunk the class, I'll just take it again. I have one more try available. I don't like the F I'll have on my transcript, but that's life. Some days, I am in a place of more acceptance of this than others, though. :/

3) In my philosophy class, I have to read another chapter in my textbook and answer the homework questions, write two more small papers, write my bibliography for my long paper, then write my outline for my long paper, THEN write my long paper. After that, I'll have to throw together a PowerPoint presentation. That's only 10 minurtes long. The long paper and my presentation are due on May 21st.

4) Friday, B and I will be celebrating our 30th anniversary. We will have lived together for thirty years!! That feel remarkable to me. When we began seeing each other a little less than 31 years ago, I thought, "I'll give this some time," but if it lasts 5 years, I'll be surprised." More fool me! I am happier and happier each day with B, too.

We've bought tickets to see The Avengers: Age of Ultron. After that, we'll go to a local Thai restaurant that we're really fond of for lunch.

That's it. I have got to go. Hugs and sunshine to all.

I dislike it when I'm very sleepy but too anxious to fall asleep.

Hi!

I'm back in school. I'm taking a critical thinking and writing course through the philosophy class. We'll learn some basic tool for identifying and analyzing arguments, such as what the basic fallacies are. Then, we'll write on bioethical issues, and conclude with a term paper.

My other class is elementary statistics, again. I'm tackling it for the second time. I had dropped it when I left college last March.

I'm adjusting my schedule too. My two classes are back-to-back, with a 10 minute walk in between, without any bathroom break! Aah! This morning, I'm going to try getting in to an earlier class which will let me have a long study break between both classes.

Here is a selfie of me in my new glasses. I have cataracts now. Gads—I didn't expect that. My optometrist estimates that I will have cataract surgery sometime next year, based on how rapidly one of them is progressing. That's scary. I don't want to have Surgery On My Eyes! However, my left eye is almost useless. I can't even read the very largest letters on the top of the Snellen eye chart in that eye. My left eye has drifted to the left so far that I can't pull it back in, giving me a rather spooky look. Cataract surgery will go a ways toward correcting that solution.

Hey there! Just checking in for a moment.

I have been sleeping a lot lately, and sitting around on Facebook. One of my Facebook sins is that I actually read the articles that others link to, instead of reading only the teaser and clicking 'like.' Sometimes I even make comments. It all takes a lot of time.

I don't know why I'm so sleepy. I'm getting plenty of sleep at night. It's annoying.

I found a cd in the grocery store yesterday by Janis Joplin for only $5! It's probably remaindered. Who cares!

I'll return tomorrow or Thursday with a New Year's post.

Until then, Happy New Year!

Here is a video of a song I listened to earlier this morning. It's a very happy song, and I hope it reminds all of us of the real meaning of Thanksgiving: an opportunity to experience and express gratitude for all of the blessings of the year. It's World Party's "Thank You World."