Pride goeth before a fall – AKA the Fates smack me down

So I went to work, and it wasn’t that bad, though I did find out that my extraordinarily sympathetic boss is moving back to Korea where she can be a housewife & concentrate on getting pregnant/staying pregnant. I will miss her. And envy her.
But that wasn’t the most fun.
The most fun was realizing [...]

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Went to work…

… again, because what else are you going to do? It was ok. There’s enough crap going on at any given time at work that I can vent and rage and no one needs to know that I couldn’t care less about the scheduling or the new database system issues. Transference is [...]

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A very hungry poppy seed

Nothing new here, save that when my boss (who’s also going through IVF) saw me looking green at the hotdog-odor wafting from the Friends of the Library benefit going on downstairs, she immediately said, “Maybe you’re, you know, pregnant” So I told her the news, and she was delighted for me. And started [...]

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Appointment tomorrow…

 …at which point I should learn if this IVF thing is going to work this month or not.  
Yikes. 
First really noticeable side effects kicked in last night.  Sleeplessness.  Heart beating fast, so I couldn’t relax and fall back asleep.  Assisted, I’m sure, by the really crappy dreams playing in my brain when I did sleep.  And [...]

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