Class and Doctor

[bethlakshmi]

Operating Systems Class

Well... apparently through trying to kick ass in order to not be swamped during Out for Blood show time... I have clawed my way to the top. I have apparently made obvious SEVERAL bugs in the professor's code. It needed to correctly handle masks, and the IDLE function didn't play well with the interrupt system. (for the non-geeks, translation: several pretty key things are pretty darn broken). The prof said, in puzzlement, that the undergrads last term made it through the code base with nary a problem. I explained that it is one of my Mutant Ninja Powers to break things, but I don't think he believed my claim to super-human code breaking skills. Not until he said "I'll get those fixes out to you all ... as soon as she (me) tests them and approves them." and one of my fellow students said, with some dry wit - "But that will NEVER happen! You just don't know her!" - student in question was on the project where I broke a critical 3rd party product so many times, that I became FAMOUS in the vendor's company for the frequency, variety and depth of my bug reports. On day, for shits and giggles, I managed to find over 30 discrete and completely independant bugs. My bosses now save me, until the vendor becomes egotistical and obstreperous - and then they inflict me on them.

I got a feeling from the terseness of answers after class that I am so ahead that he feels no need to intricately answer my problems... that, and that I may be beyond the BIG problems, and now it's just a matter of whacking the kinks out.

All in all - feeling better about the project.

Baby Doll progress
First demonic pasty done, second pasty (of a pair) halfway done. Have worked out kinks, I think and can generate the rest without incident. Have the bases glued and drying at home.

Checkup

First annual checkup in several years. I had stopped going to our family GP because I felt that she was too friendly with my mother. A slip (which I now forget) about one or the other of us having recently seen her, said to the other one, made me uncomfortable. While no proprietary info was shared, and while this isn't unusual behavior for a family doctor 10 years ago - health and health issues have become a touchy topic in the Information Age, and I don't want to have a conversation with my mother of why I did (or didn't) go to the doctor.

That and her billing system SUCKED. I got wrong bills all the time, and they were always very, very late in coming.

So... now I have a new doctor. Once again, using my insurance's Provider Directory, looking a pictures and reading bios seems to have done well for me. My doctor is a woman, either my age, or a few years older. I only think older because she carries herself with such poise and confidence. She's hip and fun, and has a sense of humor and seems to honestly like people. I'm thrilled. She rolled with my unique personal adornment accessories (see me be vague!) without a blink, AND asked me if I was currently sexually active with "men, women or both" - YAY! - and I felt quite OK with saying right now, I am monogamous, but sometimes I am not. She's a big, big fan of disease vaccination and prevention - not on "abstinence in the way to stay safe!" and has a certain "you're young! enjoy life!" attitude. Who'd think I'd get so lucky from a bio on a web page?! Now crossing fingers that office paper work won't suck. Ladies at desk seem smart - but maybe they are just putting on an act and toying with me. A doctor who is awesome with a office that can do billing well would almost be too much to expect.

She is ALSO a gynocologist, so I can kill two birds with one stone - my two Must Do Annually Things can be done at the same time in the same place. And since one of my biggest problems is girl-related, this is super convenient. I didn't like my last gyn. - she was harsh and abrupt (socially), and that's a pretty unpleasant and intimate exam - not something you want to do with someone you would not want to share a cup of coffee with. So... now I get two doctor-issues solved in one fell swoop, and she's affiliated with Newton Wellesley which is a leader in female care of various types.

We're also setting me up with a doctor for working on the sleep apnea... and with a vaccine for chicken pox.

She loves that I'm doing a work out and diet-in-moderation with low sugar, low fat. She cleverly suggested a fiber supplement and assured me that Metameusal *orange* flavor is not at all nasty, and can be taken with just a bit of water, not 8 ounces. I love this woman. Thank you, doctor, for realizing that I don't like fiber supplements because they are NASTY and because I can't sit still and drink 8 ounces of water! I can pound 4 ounces, but to get 8 in me, it needs to sit by my desk and be drunk over the course of an hour. Of course the "icky face" may have clued her in.

She thinks 180 would be a good weight. My BMI is 27, and should be under 25, so I'm technically "overwieght", but not greivously so, and she admits that muscle may be a factor. But... 180 would be good. Let's face it - it's not all muscle - muscle doesn't look like that...

Comments

[safirasilv.livejournal.com]

re fiber supplements: Metamucil *pills* are your friend. I have to supplement occasionally when food tries to kill me (again.)

Glad you found a good doctor.