Roll Call 168 =)

I did two hours of homework. It's a start at least.

I'm hoping they're charging my mod finally. I've been asking them since Thursday. Maybe I'll nap until lunch now.

Good morning!

Charging my Kindle so I can read the book I got from my library. "A Mrs. Miracle Christmas" by Debbie Macomber. I love Christmas themed books, they definitely brighten my mood! Will go good with the chocolate chip cookies when I make them later in the week

You seem so much better bluebird....I hope you’re feeling better. I wish I had cookies maybe I’ll have to get some break n bakes this week.

Slept pretty well and not psychotic at all this morning so far, so, that is nice. All the fake/phony/derealized crap is gone and nto hallucinating. Very nice for me.

Gonna try to do some writing if I can today. Also gotta do some scut work around here. Did a little cleaning yesterday, which was much needed.

Hugs and support to all!!!

It’s just an AP....but the mechanism is slightly different than like every other AP as in it’s a low D2 binder but clearly has another pathway as well. I don’t even know if it’s approved for bipolar type stuff just hallucinations/delusions/sz.

Just wondering with the impulsive stuff if you’ve ever been tested for adhd? I swear I never had it prior to bipolar but once I did it changed me to jumping from on thing to another. They won’t give me a stimulant but luckily the fish oil counteracted this for me.

If you’re not taking fish oil, I’d say try it for a month and see if it works for you, like any med it’s going to depend on your personal genetics....it may or may not work.

I was part of a conversation about Ms. and Mrs. and all that being so old fashioned and someone was talking about Dr. If I had a PhD I would sign everything with Dr. you bet your ***.

I usually do if they require like a greeting so half of my mail is like dr whatever....but most of us go by our first names like everyone else...

Hey I’m awake

I always insisted my patients call me Cyclist... First name. Not sure why.

Was wondering you were....sleep ok?

Yea I did actually. Slept the whole night plus a few hours.

Got Job’s book. Plus I wanna see about doing this StoryCorp thing. It’s where u interview someone you really admire in your life and their story will be put in the National Archives. Gonna do it with my dad and his experience growing up in Mississippi.

That sounds cool

I’m just saying if I accomplished something like that I would want everyone to know all the time. I would be annoying about it at least for a while

I thought that’s how I would be but by the end of it you just don’t give a ....when I trained grad students I always told them they weren’t actually ready to graduate until they got to that point ...was meant to be a joke but now it feels like it’s just part of the high stress lifestyle.

Besides if everyone you know is a doctor it doesn’t really matter anyway. It’s like that spies like us clip, dr dr dr...etc.

It's just more school. Not that big of a deal. To me, anyway.

3 things I wanna do

Apple is having their next keynote in VR for the first time. So gonna goto that on Monday. Then the Monterrey Bay aquarium in California is having their jellyfish cam on VR on Tuesday. Then Space X is gonna launch their rocket or whatever on VR. So doing that, too!

I don’t have anyone in my social circle that’s a doctor. Hell, most don’t even have a bachelors. I have a couple certificates and I’m working on my bachelors of science in applied mathematics.

So for me getting a doctorate is a big thing. I don’t even think anyone in my family has a doctorate.

Thanks, I’m doing a lot of meditating and prayer and it’s helping. You should definitely get some cookies to make I was gonna wait till later this week to make them but I’m gonna make them today in about an hour from now.

I've been busy all day cooking for fathers day......just cooked 6 steaks

I am doing well today. I am planning on getting work done today.

I’m not messing with my meds anymore. There’s no point in messing things up when I’m on a good mix that’s helping me. I’ll just accept that I need them.

Anyway, I’m craving bacon. I saw a post on Facebook, a pic of bacon, now I can’t stop thinking about it. It’s been so long since I’ve had any. Maybe I’ll get some when I go to Denny’s next weekend.

By the time you finish all your coworkers and grad school friends also have one....I was the first in my family to have one but then my cousin got her masters in epidemiology along with a psych doctorate and my other cousin got his DO. Neither of my parents finished college so it should have been a big deal, but it wasn’t to me. My sister didn’t finish college either, but frankly she’s always been smarter than me. The degree doesn’t indicate much, it’s literally a piece of paper I’ve got in a file somewhere.

Plus with a PhD it’s like people think oh so you’re not a real doctor anyway or alternately that you know everything like google. It just causes a lot of confusion.

However I don’t want to discourage you from getting one if you want, it’s nice to have but I thinks there’s a lot of misperception of it.

That’s awesome...it’s going to rain here so no cookout for us.