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I’ve since adjusted my morning basal, but if I had to have gone much longer, I would have had a true crash.

I was at 110 at 11:10, did my Symlin, and then walked down to the teacher workroom at 11:40. I could tell I was starting to lose, but the kid in front of me had a really rude picture in his clear pack, and I wanted him talked to so I signalled the principal whom I’ve known for two years and I couldn’t remember his name!

When I got to the microwave, I couldn’t remember how to operate one. I had my food in my hand, and I couldn’t figure out what button to push, so I grabbed one of the male math teachers and had him do it. After I got my soup in the microwave, I saw the pear and said “Hey, that will fix it”, and went ahead and ate dessert first.

I probably should have popped a life saver before I left the room, and I did almost make it.

I’ve tweaked some settings and that should help.

Actually I’m doing better than surviving.

First, my blood sugars are where they should be. In fact, I’m keeping a close eye to make sure they don’t go too low during the day. My fasting blood sugars have been good the past two days — 95 and 105. My after lunch blood sugars are also doing well, in fact, loads better than they were last year.

I even managed to get on the treadmill for 35 minutes yesterday.

I missed most of last week’s workouts. First the cardio was way to long for me to do and work too. I should have shorten them a week early but I was hoping. I was doing over an hour a day on that schedule. I even missed the weight workouts but then again, I was moving boxes, walking the building searching for people, etc.

My weight is still going down, and I’m being very careful not to dehydrate again, though I don’t drink as much at school as I do at home. Don’t eat as much either.

My classes are interesting. The Algebra I repeater class size is stable. I did make one kid’s day. He had already passed Algebra I AND Geometry, so was definately in the wrong class. On Monday, he told me, and I sent an email to his counselor. His counselor fixed the schedule and had it in my box at 7:45 am. I gave him his new schedule when he walked in my room and get him to the right class and teacher. The even better news, is that new teacher was my department chair, and she was thrilled that I had caught the error and got it fixed too. When I told her, I was actually bragging on the counselor, but every day we can have the kid in the actual right class, the better.

The ESL classes, however are not stable when it comes to class size. My 3rd and 4th period classes have almost doubled. I have most of the ESL students in 4th period because of the way their schedule works. They are with an ESL specialist for 3 class periods (I didn’t KNOW this, but had seen their schedules before), and are with me 1 class period. So there is an opportunity for two different specialists to see them for 4th, but only one for 3rd and 5th.

The ESL kids are so very happy to be in the classroom. However, they are very shy for the most part and don’t want to talk. The key, I’m learning, is to get silly myself. The more silly I am, the easier it is for them to try and make mistakes.

I just checked UNT’s system and my grades are official.

I made an A in each of the two classes I took this summer. In fact, I’ve made an A in each of the CECS courses — my major. My only “B” in my degree plan was from the Computer Science department.

The degree won’t be official for several weeks, but man, that’s good news.

I’ve seen all of my classes now except one. Class size is very reasonable, portables are reasonable, and I’m getting a much better handle on everything as each day goes on.

Right now, I’m focusing on this week alone, but tomorrow, I’ll thinking about the rest.

I also know what my job used to be like and life is SO much better. The nicest thing, is that I do not share my classroom!

It’s still unofficial, but I got my grade this evening on my final. I made a 96 out of 90!

The official grades probably won’t be out until Wednesday.

Met several of my fellow students for a graduation celebration tonight.

It was the perfect restaurant — except for the price. It was a Brazalian Steak House.

They had appetizers and cheese biscuits out. I did finally eat one of the cheese biscuits and it was more cheese than biscuit, and very small.

They had a salad bar, and I ended up with the lettuce leaves on top of the salad and the other veggies on the bottom, but it was very good and everything was well labled.

They had “gauchos” wandering around with meat, and I tried several different types of meat, including their lamb, which I really like.

All told, I used no insulin, just the symlin that I ended up dosing an hour a head of time, but it worked out okay. I think we finally ate around 7:00 pm and at 9:00 pm my blood sugar was 145.

Nothing was very fatty.

The only problem was the price, $120 for two, but we don’t eat like that very often. Even my husband liked the place.

All in all, a perfect place for a diabetic, except the price!

I actually slept all night last night. I went to bed somewhere around 10:30, woke up around 5:30 piddled around, felt sleepy and went back to bed until 7:30.

I think I’m having a massive allergy attack, but that makes sense since I am allergic to dust, and haven’t been in our building this summer — I usually drop by and stay for an hour or so every other week but haven’t the last two years because of the difference in personnel.

It could be a cold, but I don’t think so.

Some of the extra weight loss, as I expected, was because I was dyhradated. I concentrated on drinking water all day yesterday, and now my weight is a bit better. Three pounds less than last Sunday, which I’m comfortable with, as it’s a bit more than 10% of my body weight.

Still haven’t gotten my grade on my final back, but I only need 1 point of out 90 points. I sort of think I’ll graduate.

I’d be a lot happier if I was teaching the subjects I’m comfortable with in the room I was comfortable in, but sadly that room doesn’t even exist, so things are much better.

I called all my Algebra I students which was a HUGE chore, and verified some phone numbers. It was hard, but I think I made an impression on a couple of kiddos. My next goal is to call every student who is absent the day they are absent.