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Curry soup, eh. Very spicy? What's the base?

It's looking like we may be back to doing taxes the old-fashioned way (keying in everything). The download from CRA is still unavailable for most of my slips and now I see from The Globe that our beloved government f***ed up yet again and financial institutions and other issuers are having trouble uploading the data. You know, if the government came to me tomorrow and offered me ungodly amounts of money to head up their IT, I would flat turn them down. Trying to turn that mess into something like a sane, functional IT system would land me in the psych ward. There's good reason my d-i-l (computer engineer) left the feds after she finished her degree.
 
The daughter had a rough start to calculus this term. The first two tests looked like they could have been written by me.

She picked it up by the third test with an 83% that was second in the class to an 85, so I expect it could be belled up. The average student bombed that one, so the teacher offered a make-up test last week. I encouraged Claire to write it, knowing that make-up tests are usually the teacher looking for an excuse to give away marks. She was the only one who chose to write it. We just had parent-teacher interviews on Thursday and it appears she completely aced it. I'm hoping he throws out one of her bad test scores instead of the 83, but we'll see.

The last university application she's waiting on is McMaster Life Sciences, and that's competitive. The cutoff is usually 92-93% average of your top 6 grade 12 courses. She has a 99 in her back pocket for one grade, and another low 90, but others are low to high 80s, so it's close. It looks more like she wants to go to Waterloo for Psych, but it would be nice to see her have a choice. I think she's rejecting the idea of Trent. Her Guelph acceptance is for Neurosci, and I think she's souring on that and wants science pathway psych instead.

This is intense. She was suffering from burnout through most of grade 12, but I think she sees the light at the end of the tunnel now. At least she's not one to habitually check her application statuses. So many students are on edge right now, trying to get into competitive programs.
 
Good to know.

That's the thing with Psych - to do much with it, you have to move on to post-grad. Which typically means you need excellent grades. She's got to excel again. She has the ability. I think her doldrums have a lot to do with being stuck in high school with people she's not very interested in talking to. We need to get her into university.
 
Waterfall said:
Lots of decisions and pressure....hope she's getting lots of R and R.
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Well, her job is over for the season. She got a lot of positive feedback from the parents of her athletes. She did well this year and she was part of some really impressive improvements. I still can't believe she coaches about the most dangerous sport on skis. It's so out of what I consider is her character, but she sees risk where I don't, and vice-versa. I'm right and she's wrong, of course.

She still volunteers alternate Wednesdays in Barrie, mentoring grieving children. That's been something she looks forward to every session, but it's still something that takes time and energy.

Otherwise, she's not heavily engaged in extra-curriculars at school. It's really just the school ski team she races with and spends a couple hours coaching with me each season. So I wouldn't say she's over-programmed.
 
Today was interesting. It started out being slothful. We had a fire with friends this afternoon. One couple came down from up island so it was nice to see them. Six of us went for supper, then hubby and I went over to the hospital so I could learn to shoot myself. I have to give myself an injection on Saturdays and Sundays after my treatment. It was a piece of cake and I didn't feel the needle. What a relief. This injection will help keep my white blood cells up.
 
Good morning! Coolish start to the day here. Taxes and computers, discovering a new kind of soup, calculus and psych, universities, learning to inject oneself, and all the stuff we can think up today, comes with us to the Coffee Cart for chat and support, connection and community, over coffee, tea, and doughnuts. The coffeeis fresh, tea water boiling, and doughnuts delightfully warm. Allis ready, all are welcome. Come join the conversations and indulge!

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Campfires are so satisfying @Northwind !

Happy to hear that the needles are a piece of cake. Insulin needles are completely painless (people often don't believe this) but I have heard certain other meds are not so easy.
 
I have actually given needles but that was eons ago. Never had to inject myself. Yet. I'm only coming up on 60 and have type 2 diabetes so my day may yet come.

However, latest blood results are all good. Not even a warning on my A1C. Current drug regimen has it down to levels that would be considered "at risk" in a non-diabetic. Which kind of surprised me because my weight has actually crept up a bit this past winter so I was figuring that it would be similar to last time (which was low but not that low). So, just continuing my drug and exercise regimen for now.

Looks like it will be chilly here this week. Single digits right through to Saturday. Even some minus signs. At least there isn't any ice or heavy rain in the forecast (yet), just showers and/or flurries.
 
@Mendalla
Type 2 diabetic and 25 yr insulin user here. My A1C target is 7.0

On-line (looking at you Reddit) you will find many type 2 diabetics trying to get it in the normal range I e. under 6.0

They do this by eating extremely low carbohydrate meals.

According to my endocrinologist and dietician this is not wise. But of course the Redditors say that dieticians in particular don't know what they are talking about.
 
paradox3 said:
On-line (looking at you Reddit) you will find many type 2 diabetics trying to get it in the normal range I e. under 6.0
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I got there without trying. Frankly, given how I used to skirt that 7.0 line when I was on Metformin alone, I would be happy in the mid-6's. However, Jardiance, the new drug I am on, is working extremely well. It's probably responsible for finally getting my weight out of the overweight BMI range, too. Supposed to reduce the risk of cardiovascular illness in type 2 diabetics as well. Type 2 diabetes is a degenerative illness and while I know someone who got themselves under control and reduced their drug regimen with a major effort on diet and exercise, he still wasn't considered "cured", just "well-controlled". I am happy that I was able to control it that way for as long as I did. I was doing just diet and exercise for 2 or 3 years before I started Metformin.
 
As one neurosurgeon declared to me many that get into the field of endocrinology, etc. do not have a clue of how complex it is when they render their comments.

I found the same thing about folk selling water treatment schemes that didn't understand much about the secrets of water ... so much is hidden, obscure and Gnostic and few will inquire openly and mull the input! It get deep and profound ...

I have been dumbfounded by efforts to try and get me on various pharmaceuticals that I don't need ... especially sugar, BP, and cholesterol materials and then they ignore the actual signs of difficulty ... it is how they are impressed ... smashing right?

How does ONE get afore this ... Hua-Y must be cleared ... cut through the mist! What's a mist? That's a clouded circle ... mean narrative!
 
Northwind said:
Today was interesting. It started out being slothful. We had a fire with friends this afternoon. One couple came down from up island so it was nice to see them. Six of us went for supper, then hubby and I went over to the hospital so I could learn to shoot myself. I have to give myself an injection on Saturdays and Sundays after my treatment. It was a piece of cake and I didn't feel the needle. What a relief. This injection will help keep my white blood cells up.
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Good to hear that treatment is progressing without pain from shots. Pretty sure I'd be nervous about poking myself too.
 
Needles can be like a thorn in the behind ... a Roan letter as γ is in Greek, just roué? Some say it is ethe ... complex gathering the entire perspective! --- Sophia?

It is said one half had to go down ... understood?
 
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