Oh well, to mark the day, here is one of my favourite paintings. I actually made a reproduction of this work, in my student days (no, you can't see it!) :)
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| Girl with a Pearl Earring - c.1665 - Johannes Vermeer |
I have to say, I am a very useful person to take out to dinner. You see, whenever I take out my test kit, the wait staff ALWAYS come over. It might be coincidence, but it's happened so many times (more than 100) that I think the waiters are just curious! What is she doing? hehe - anyway the upshot is that we get served pretty quickly!
The downside, with indian food, is I have no idea how to carb count it. :(
Actually, it would be helpful if I knew exactly how much I ate :P But I just wolf it down, so hungry!
I had my first day back at work today after mid-semester break, and with a good breakfast test, and not much food (no grazing at the biscuit tin today!), and plenty of walking between classrooms, I went quite low during a staff meeting this afternoon. After treating that, then eating Indian for dinner meant a nice high just now. Ah well. Bolus. Then the painful part - staying awake long enough to know if it's "just right" and not going to send me plummeting overnight.
I also don't want to be high all night, as that will ruin me for the exhibition opening tomorrow (so excited!) Oh, question for you: do you get incredibly hungry when you are high sometimes? Like, ravenous? It's weird, my symptoms seem to have done a flip-flop over the last couple of months. I just want to eat the cupboards bare when I'm high, and (TMI warning, advance apologies, avert your eyes etc) I need to pee like a racehorse when I'm low. Weird I know - I've never been one to do things by the book :P
I also have really odd symptoms at times. I get quite hungry at times when I am high, although it is a different type of hunger to the one I get when low. At times I also need to do the racehorse thing when low - which generally then confuses the crap out of me! My reasoning is that highs and lows are actually quite similar in nature - the fact that your body in essence is starved of carbs/glucose... (just because of different reasons). I think the only big difference would be the neuro-type symptoms, and I think this is probably attributed to the fact that the brain does not need insulin to digest/use glucose. Anyway....
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How did the opening go?
:) Yep the opening went really well, I will post about it soon :)
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