Well, we've had an easy Sunday so far. It has been nice to kick back and hang out in pjs not doing much. I'm about to go for a run -- we're up to the warmest part of the day as it nears 26 with a windchill of 13. It is sunny though and deceptively clear out, so I'll go freeze for a run then come back in to a warm Chris.
This past week I went to my GI doc. We discussed my visit to the allergist from the beginning of the month. I was shocked when she agreed with me that the allergist was a jerk. We talked about how science is constantly evolving and how the allergist seemed to think that the only allergy was an IgE reaction. There are many many other players in the immune system though, so it is quite limiting to see only one as being the "true" allergy. This coming week I'm supposed to see a new allergist -- one who does actual research with my GI doc on food allergy related stuff. He apparently likes to draw blood for everything so we'll see how pricks it takes to get blood from Carolyn this week. My GI doc is going to warn him about how much my body doesn't like to have blood taken from it, so we'll see if he listens.
At work Chris continues to work on taking over the stockroom sometime this summer. They are trying to hammer down all the details about the position and whatnot. Hopefully we'll know soon so we know if we both need to be looking for jobs or not. We're hoping they will be reasonable, but precedent doesn't suggest that.
This week was the first week of quizzes for me. Since I only have quizzes and tests for grades this term, it was round one of getting an idea of questions and such. Both quizzes were fairly straight forward. I got a 9/10 on one of them and am unsure about the other one. I don't think I did too poorly, probably just some spelling errors if anything. I got all the chemistry right, just not the spelling. The project I work on is coming along nicely and is slated to start in the classrooms the middle of March. We will be holding training in the next couple of weeks so hopefully we won't have some of the fiasco it was last semester. The professors have agreed to play nice for the most part and all seem to be very enthusiastic. This will be a first so hopefully it will greatly impact the relevancy that the students see to the lab time.
One fun thing from today is that I made waffles that rose. I've been having a VERY difficult time getting my breads and waffles to rise, but finally managed to do it. I also made them with no dairy products, so that's cool. They were quite tasty, but nutty, as I made them with almond meal and almond milk. Like I said, they rose though so I'm excited. I'm really trying to work up to making a bread recipe that I can eat, and getting the flours to rise has been a challenge.
Not much else is new here so I suppose I should go run. I need to take water, but am pretty sure it would freeze while I'm out running so it will have to be a short run.
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