i definitely love doing things on a whim.  i ended up with four of
our company’s giants tickets to tonights game,  when kevin walked
by my cube around 4:45 and threw the tickets at me.    thus
began a long search of trying to find friends to go to the game. 
i remembered that this one girl who i’ve been talking to online (i
think from sf-newcomers) but have never met,  had gone to a few
a’s games.  i invited her along and she brought her friend
tammy.  we met up in front of the mays statue, and went to the
club level seats.  i never realized just how good the seats
are,  since i had always refused the tickets before.  i’m
always at the games anyway and its been tough finding others to go
with. it was definitely a fun night and it is always a blast meeting
new people.  especially those who i can call just before a game
and are willing to head out to the ballpark! 

if i weren’t so tired,  this entry might even be
interesting.  its just standard “soup label” fare tonight. 
sorry folks!

mmm. maybe i’ll be able to afford to move after all.

what fantastic news for diabetics (and investors. )

http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=AMLN

If i have kids one day,  they shall be named either LARs or LARa.  haha!

http://yahoo.reuters.com/financeQuoteCompanyNewsArticle.jhtml?duid=mtfh41880_2005-08-22_22-17-55_n22496117_newsml

A quote from one of the articles:
“A1C, a measure of glucose control, improved approximately 2
percent for subjects receiving the high dose of exenatide LAR,
compared to placebo. At the beginning of the study, the average A1C of
study participants was approximately 8.5 percent. The decrease in A1C
was progressive with no evidence of a plateau at week 15. Twelve of
the 14 high-dose subjects who entered the study with an A1C greater
than 7 percent achieved an A1C of 7 percent or less at 15 weeks. None
of the 14 subjects receiving placebo achieved that target. The
American Diabetes Association recommends a target A1C of less than 7
percent.”

8.5 percent a1c to under 7 percent?  To me that sounds like 2 percentage points, not 2 percent.

Its funny to wake up in the morning with a high (~300) blood
sugar,  when i’ve normally been running in the mid 150s to
160s.  As far as I know, i didn’t make myself a bowl of pasta in
the middle of the night. I’ve heard of sleep-walking,  but i’m not
sure sleep-cooking is as common a phenomena.

I had definitely been looking forward to Friday night for oh…the past
month or so,  when I heard that Liz Phair would be performing at
Swedish American Hall,  upstairs from Cafe du Nord.   I
saw her a year ago at the Fillmore,  but the crowd was mainly
teeny-boppers.  This time around,  she played quite a bit of
her old stuff,  and tons of tracks off
whitechocolatespaceegg,  one of my favorite cds ever.  
I went with my friend Monika,  and before the show,  we
grabbed dinner at Home @ Church/Market.  Soooo good.  I
probably shouldn’t have splurged and had the creme brulee,  but i
did keep my blood-sugar in check.

Saturday night,  went over to Chrissy Field for a little bit and hung out with Monika at the relay-for-life event. 

And yesterday,  I lounged around after my fantasy football
draft,  played some poker online (thanks to checkyourbets.com, i
can actually see that i’ve been winning!) , and then walked to trader
joes and bought some cheese and various things to nibble on this
week.  The walk down the hill wasn’t bad,  but the walk back
up…ack,  i’m out of shape.

Heard yesterday from my building manager,  that he thinks my
building might be close to being sold.  He gave a date of October
18th,  but I figure not much will change.  At least, thats
what i’m hoping. I don’t expect the new owners to kick us all out and
turn it into condos,  but that could very well happen.  At
the very least, i should have 90 days from then to find a new
place….right?  I need to look into the housing regulations for
SF…..I love my new place,  i definitely don’t want to
move! 

this weekend has exhausted me.

and now i just got a piece of unsettling news which i may soon have to deal with.

a longer update later,  when i’ve stopped worrying. :-/

So I had planned on grabbing lunch today at the Saturday Farmers Market
@ the Ferry Building, as usual.  Unfortunately,  I slept in
way too late,  and by the time I got there (~2pm), most of the
food stands had closed down.  No steak sandwich or oysters for me
today!  I ended up having a grilled sausage which wasn’t quite as
good. 

While I was eating,  the woman sitting next to me noticed me
testing my blood sugars so we got to talking about the Paradigm insulin
pump that Minimed makes.  She seems to love being on her insulin
pump and was telling me that the next upgrade of the pump will
integrate blood sugar testing as well.

I haven’t even mentioned my fun friday night!  I will get into that later,  I guess! 

from the maps-are-cool dept:

My only issue with this is that you can’t zoom in to see which
countries i’ve been to….19 countries,  although I didn’t count
Andorra and Liechtenstein as I didn’t think i actually stepped foot in
those countries for any length of time.  But maybe the train did
go through them…

create your own visited countries map
 or vertaling Duits Nederlands

from the quizzes-are-for-whizzes (and lazy bloggers) dept:

You’re the United Nations!

Most
people think you’re ineffective, but you are trying to completely save
the world from itself, so there’s always going to be a long way to go.
 You’re always the one trying to get friends to talk to each
other, enemies to talk to each other, anyone who can to just talk
instead of beating each other about the head and torso.  Sometimes
it works and sometimes it doesn’t, and you get very schizophrenic as a
result.  But your heart is in the right place, and sometimes also
in New York.

guess i won’t be eating lunch at crocker galleria today.

http://www.sfgate.com/tmp/explosion.html

well this is really a wednesday entry,  but i somehow got home a little later than expected tonight.

good things about today:

• my a1c is down to 6.9 percent. considering it was at 18.4 percent
  or something astronomical like that in january,  i think this is
  progress.
• on the train ride back from san mateo.  chatted it up with a health educator from the mills-peninsula
  diabetes center, who actually works with Cindy and Cathy,  my two
  contacts there.
• yummy quesadilla from la cumbre
• got to hang out with kristi, monika, and the rest of the pub-trivia crew.
• my bed is cozy and warm!

not-so-good things about today:

• having to go home begrudgingly cause i didn’t have my night-time
  insulin with me. (normally i just carry the humalog, not the lantus.)
• bk’s chicken fries are nasty
• previously mentioned health educator is 34 and married.
• got killed in pub-trivia due to a lack of “new orleans” knowledge. note to self…plan trip to mardi gras for 2006.
• waiting half an hour for the 38,  and then having to walk
  from geary/larkin back to my apartment.  ahhh i live so close to
  such sketchiness!
• i will probably get only four hours of sleep tonight in previously mentioned cozy bed.  *sigh*

“your heart is an empty room” by death cab for cutie



burn it down


til the embers smoke on the ground


and start new


when your heart is an empty room


with walls of the deepest blue


home space


how it ages when your away


and spring blooms


when you find the love thats true


but you don’t know and now you do


cause it chases all you know


and you stopped running months ago

and all you see


is where else you could be


when you’re at home


not on the street


are so many possibilities


do not be alone

the flames and smoke


climbed out of every window


and dissappear


with everything that you hold dear


you shed not a single tear


for the things that you didn’t need


cause you knew you were finally free

cause all you see


is where else you could be


when you’re at home


and out on the street


are so many possibilities


do not be alone

and all you see


is where else you could be


when you’re at home


there on the street


are so many possibilities


do not be alone