Sleepy today.
Since in addition to problems with HIV and its medication and HCV, I also have an auto-immune thyroid problem, I've been taking medicines for a while now – one year, two years? – that keep my weakened thyroid from allowing me to sleep all the time.
Unfortunately, I've been a bit careless about the thyroxine for the past ten days or so – too much travel, not taking it at the right time of day, etc. This is in the category of Not Good – if I don't take it on time (8:30 each morning) my system goes a bit haywire.
So I'm sleepy; trying to do things, but tending to just lie quietly and let sleep take over....
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Tonight I met for a drink with some of last year's masters students who were graduating – a charming and intelligent bunch, now far-flung (Ireland, Canada, etc.). At the end of the conversation, while we were walking back to the station, I explained the paper I'm having so much trouble writing – I did, in fact, exactly what I push my own postgraduates to do over and over: to simply explain exactly what they want to write, or the part they are currently writing, etc.
And came home, and *click*: started right into two pages that made sense, that sounded interesting, that set up the paper....
Off to bed now; but I feel considerably more able to finish this than at any time in the past three months. Ah....
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