Random Bullets of Life on Lupron

• Right now (knock wood) life on lupron is tolerable. I decided my hot flashes were actually just the result of working in an old building with steam heat, because they don't seem to hit me at home. And the headache? Well, either that was a byproduct of the cold and/or taking estrogen along with lupron does indeed cancel things out. My mood is good enough that I think my E2 level is relatively high. But who knows.
• I am officially afraid to open my work email. Every time I do there is either (or both) a request from a student to do something else (oh, the late requests for letters of rec!) or an update from my chair about ongoing search drama. Urgh.
• The upside is that I am so completely overwhelmed with what needs to happen before March 1 that I'm sort of blase about all of it. It's just a matter of triage and checking the next thing off the list.
• My students are sick and they have hit a pre-midterm slump. I'd like to rally and have energy for them, but I just can't.
• LG started crying tonight when she realized that chocolate frosting is not conducive to making all kinds of colored swirls and such. So it looks like I'm making my own margarine-and-confectioner's sugar version in light blue, so she can dump colored sugar on it in the morning. Oh well.
• After a lot of rigamarole (anyone else here over the age of 25 need her mother's authorization to take her own money out of the stock market?!) I am finally in posession of the Big Check that will allow me to pay Dr. Gorgeous for the DE cycle.
• I have decided the Thing on My Left Ovary is either smaller or larger. But it's doing something, because it's popping and I'm spotting. Sorta like ovulation. Shit. We'll see what happens tomorrow.
• Tonight: making frosting, reading a job candidate's writing sample, shaving my legs, finishing a book for class, and, hopefully, watching 45 minutes of TV. The craziness really starts at 8:00 tomorrow.