blood sugar is our friend

falling asleep at my desk, and freezing cold. eurgh. but, time to take my medicine, and enough dawdling about getting up to go get some tea (oh, i'll just do one more ______ -- an hour goes by), so up i get, hot tea, yogurt with which to take the medicine (raspberry today, a change of pace), and between the food and the hot drink and the actual movement of actual limbs, i no longer feel quite as ready to keel over.

so "keel" means "fall" -- but it must have a particular connotation that "fall" on its own doesn't have, or we wouldn't still use both words. and this verb "keel" must be related to the noun "keel", as in "keep an even keel" and "keel-haul" and "a keel and a hull and a deck and a sail, that's what a ship needs". i wonder what it is about the way we fall when we keel over that's associated with the keel on a ship. is keeling over, like, capsizing?

yes, this is precisely how i get.

and:

[sings] I AM SUCH A DORK! [/singing]

e-mail sent.

christ, why do i let myself get so freaking Twelve. [selfsmack]

fun with phones

fun phone call #1: yes, you can so waive that late fee. oh, yes you can. and let me tell you why. if you don't send me a bill? you don't get to charge me extra money when my payment is past due. oh, no you don't. of course i'll pay the bill, but i'm very interested in not paying any late fee. of course i'll hold for a supervisor.

fun phone call #2: a former co-worker (whom i outranked, in a manner of speaking, just a bit) asked me if she could name me as a professional reference, and they called! i've never been a professional reference before. it was cool, but i had no idea if i was saying the right things. i hope she gets the job.