Randomness

• The semester started this week and I've barely been able to come up for air.  Sorry about the lack of commenting lately -- I've been keeping up and reading but I've been knocked out exhausted and had a hard time coming up with a coherent sentence at the end of the day.  I'm trying to catch back up.
• Yeah, this "walking across campus to get to classrooms" thing isn't going so well.  Especially not when added to the "stand and teach for 50 minutes" thing.  I'm in "high technology" rooms this semester (hence the walk across campus since the one in my building is booked with larger classes) which I've been enjoying.  For one thing, I can actually teach sitting down a lot more easily in these rooms if I need to.  (Which I'm going to need to.)  We have rooms "on hold" in my building for me to switch over to at some point this semester when I can no longer make the waddle.  I'm afraid it's going to have to be earlier than I expected -- I'm going to try again next week and see how it goes, but it's been exhausting and kind of achy -- and any achy feeling makes me nervous.  I'm perfectly fine with chalk and a chalkboard, but I enjoy that my notes are saved on the smart board and that my lectures are recorded on-line so students can review them.  And, of course, being able to sit and still write "on the board" easily is a big perk.  We do have video overheads, but it's not quite the same.  Oh, well.  
• Apparently, despite the 2000 IU of Vitamin D my MFM has me on and despite a good reading of Vitamin D blood levels a year ago, I now have low Vitamin D -- must be all the clouds lately.  So, now I'm on 10,000 IU of Vitamin D a day for the next 30 days.  All my other vitamins look good, though, so that's a plus.
• Still waiting on iron results.  Not sure why that's taking so long.  I've been eating everything high in iron that I can but I assume I'll become anemic at some point this pregnancy -- between lack of red meat, a genetic predisposition and a twin pregnancy it seems inevitable.
• Unbeknownst to me (that's an awesome phrase, I think I'll use it more often), my local OB did some blood clot testing last week as well.  Today the nurse called to tell me that all other factors were fine but I'm homozygous for MTFHR a1298c.  Which is interesting. They're not at all concerned -- and, of course, there's a controversy over whether the mutation (even in both genes) has an influence in pregnancy loss.  I'm already on a high dose of folic acid and have been on baby aspirin since embryo transfer.  I'll see if the MFM has anything to add about it at my appointment with him next week. 
• Somehow, through all 12 vials of blood, they managed to forget to do a CBC -- you know, the most obvious of blood tests.  So, now I have to go back on Monday to get that done.  But, the nurse said that the OB wanted to do the quad screening in the next two weeks, anyway, so we'll get them both done.  It's so much easier to just drive five minutes to get bloodwork done than it was to drive 90 minutes for a beta that it really doesn't matter to me.
• There have been so many things over the past week or so that I've thought "I need to post about that" but now I can't remember what any of them are!!!  Grr.
• After a week of record breaking heat with highs near or at 60, we plummeted overnight back to the reality that is January in the midwest.  BRR.  Snow, crazy wind, ice.  Unpleasant.  The sun's out finally, though, and it's making me feel a lot better.  
• Last weekend marked the one year anniversary of my unfulfilled due date with Spider Baby.  I have such mixed feelings about that day.   That's a post for another day.
• This week has brought lots more "reveals" with colleagues and students.  Not that the belly hasn't been revealing it for me lately...  Yeah, I'll definitely get a belly shot up soon.  I seem to have popped a lot more.  I'm not huge, but I'm definitely pregnant.  Which is awesome, most definitely.  (Still eating everything that isn't tied down.)  Each reveal still scares me but also gives me a thrill.  
• My colleague wanted to announce the pregnancy in the alumni newsletter but I stopped her.  It's fine if it trickles down to the alumni who would actually care, but sending an announcement when I'm only 16 weeks is nuts!  I'm barely OK with people around here knowing much less everyone who ever graduated with a chemistry degree!!  No thank you.  Let's wait until they're here, OK?  (Besides, what the hell would most of them care?  That's worse than a FB announcement if you ask me.)
• Next Wednesday is our next MFM appointment.  I can't wait.  We'll scan cervical length and check in on the babies.  We *might* be able to find out genders.   I just want to be reassured again that all is well.  I hate waiting between appointments -- I know I'm lucky that we get seen more often, but even that wait is TOO long!!
• I have been feeling things that I could convince myself are movement but I don't think it really is -- still waiting for it.  Come on little ones!  Kick the hell out of me!  Team up and kick together.  One, two, three -- kick!!! 
• OK, so that was a lot.  Sorry to keep going on.  I just finished a marathon session of letters of recommendation and I needed to write something other than "XX is an excellent student.  She was in the upper yy % of her peers.  She did x, y and z while she was here.  Woohoo."  (Yeah, they're better than that -- I take a lot of time with each one.  Which is exhausting.)
• Ooh, I think my office hours are over and I can go home!!  Yay home!  The sofa is screaming my name!
• Hope you all have a wonderful weekend!