Update

[ceebeegee]

I've been suffering these bouts of dizziness during or after workouts--have no idea what the problem is.  I do have pretty low blood pressure so I try to compensate by adding salt to my diet but I know I also need to eat more red meat.  Longish week--between shows for Duncan, seeing other people's shows, and cat-sitting for Tesse (and also proctoring), I've been trying not to fall asleep in the middle of the day.  Yesterday killed me, way too much to do.

On a brighter note, more on Operation Dubh Linn (meaning black pool).  A friend of mine lives in Wales not too far from Holyhead so we are making plans to meet--my idea is that I take the ferry there so I can see Wales for a bit, and then maybe she can come back to Dublin with me so she can see Dublin.  There are a couple of ferry companies that ply this route--the regular crossing (on the MV Ulysses) is about 3.5 hours, but they have a faster one (the MV Jonathan Swift) that is under 2 hours!  I'm thinking at least one of those crossings will be on the faster vessel--don't want to give up two precious hours!  And it's not as expensive as I'd feared, only about 30€.

Oooh, I just love planning trips!

I've been reading some more books, including a biography of Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Theodore Roosevelt's oldest daughter.  It's been a little disappointing--it takes some doing to write a dull biography of Alice Roosevelt, a truly unique personality who grew from hoyden to protofeminist to Washington power player, but this is it.  For one thing all the pictures chosen for the book don't show off how how gorgeous she was--"Princess Alice" was a notorious beauty, the quintessential Gibson girl, and the pictures in the book all make her look colorless.  Also the section that deals with her teen years relies perhaps a little too much on quotations from Alice's diaries, with its typically post-Victorian over-effusive prose, the worst example of which is the diary of the Empress Alexandra.  Reading excerpts from Alexandra's diary is like swallowing sugar cubes straight.  At least Alice had a sense of humor about herself--the Tsaritsa was just so EARNEST.  Although I guess her pessimism was justified...

I'm also finishing up Silver's Mississippi: A Closed Society--I came across a gold mine of archival footage today, a web site that gathers togather all sorts of links to various archival sites, so I can watch actual news reels and so forth.  I get such a kick out of watching archival footage--it just seems so historical. 
 

Comments

[wonderpanther.livejournal.com]

I am on prescription iron the vast majority of the time. I have low blood pressure and I am anemic on and off (got that from my mother). You may want to look into some prescription iron if a doctor is willing to give it a go. It does not have the side effects of over-the-counter iron supplements. But if you have to go over-the-counter, I recommend Slow FE. It was the only one I could tolerate.

[ceebeegee.livejournal.com]

Interesting. I'm taking B-12 shots, and was on prescription D pills. The next time I see the doctor, I can ask about prescription iron--never even heard of it but it make sense. I do take the over-the-counter supplements when I remember to.

Oh, and I am also anemic from time to time--I've pretty much given up trying to donate blood--with my low weight, my low BP and sometimes anemia, I get deferred constantly.