Less overwhelmed

School is over. I passed both my courses (I was sure I was going to fail statistics, but didn't). I can relax.

Work is going well, despite some unfavourable student evaluations at the college (hey, I suppose there always has to be a few ...).

Diabetes control is going well. I'm exercising every day, or almost every day. It's causing a lot of lows, which means I'm not feeling symptoms very well. Yesterday I dropped to 1.9 after working out and didn't feel it at all until after I got off the equipment. Today I tested just after an IEP meeting to find my blood sugar at 2.9. I did feel sort of low that time. Parents wanted to stay and chat, but I needed to eat. I hate that dilemma. Of course, I ate. I think aside from waking up low, lows at work at my least favourite. Especially in education, I can't just duck out for a few minutes to go eat and recover.

I was 14.6 the other day and that seemed exceedingly high, which is a good sign. I can't say that I'm necessarily having all (not even close) my blood sugars in range, but I'm doing better than I have been for the past few months. I'm aiming for below 6.5, when A1c time comes around.

I've decided next year (in school world this really means after the summer holidays) I'm going to cut down on work and committments. Maybe only work four days a week, if I can get away with that financially. These past few months trying to work full-time and do school part-time AND be active with several volunteer organizations was too much. Once you get to a certain point, trying to cram more in simply means that you get less done overall because you're not able to actually focus on doing a good job with anything, just on surviving.

I start graduate classes in the summer. I am beyond excited. It'll be a lot of work but it's in a field I love and am passionate about (education of students with visual impairments). I've never felt this excited about school before!