Update, Insomnia Edition (32w2d)

1. We--all lifeforms at Chez Gwinne--survived the weekend.  While you were wrong about me overdoing it on Friday, you should have warned me about the festivities that followed:  errands, applepicking, walks in the woods with friends...  Yes, settling down now...
2. The Boy passed his first of hopefully many NSTs.  I survived my betamethasone injection, which, if you want to know, sucks as much as PIO.  And I have to go back tomorrow for round #2, as I refuse to do an IM injection in my thigh, and there's no way for me to reach my own ass with my left hand anymore (ahem).  I've been warned that my thursday appointments (NST, ultrasound, office visit) will take roughly 2 hours.  At least there's not the 2 hrs in the car anymore...
3. Big Cat, who had another "episode" just before my NST, passed her cardio evaluation.  That is, while cardiac problems do exist, they have largely been ruled out as the cause for whatever is going on.  So, potentially more testing of other bodily systems...  As my other two cats died in such a way that there was no possibility to intervene, it would be great to treat whatever is going on with Big Cat...but at what (literal) cost?  Philosophical vs. financial quandary about the value of animal companions.  Subject for another time, I suppose.
4. Despite everything, I did not have a massive freakout episode in YFPP.  The pregnant masses seemed less whiny, and I just said I was sore from a steroid injection and left it at that.  Did tell the teacher I might not be back, depending on how all this falls out...
5. I have a meeting with my department chair tomorrow (well, I suppose today at this point) that I am absolutely dreading.  Subjects include:  crap with student organization, my "maternity" leave, and, inevitably, the tenure drama.  I think I will need to stop at the neighbors' teahouse and get me some of that anti-stress tea, minus the chamomile...