Short health update

Apparently my iron levels are so low as to almost warrant transfusions right now. My doctor tells me that with an iron level like that, she wouldn't be able to get out of bed, let alone work efficiently, either. She's amazed I went hiking like this.

This may explain a lot. :D

Still going to see a psychiatrist/neurologist tomorrow, though. Can't hurt; and I'm pretty sure I have some... issues there, too.

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In the category "stress factors I really didn't need": a colleague just reserved all the books that I had our library order for my seminar for a seminar of her own. All of them. Did I mention I haven't even read them yet, nor prepared the first few sessions of my seminar? How am I gonna do that if I have to give all the books (the books the library only ordered because *I* asked them to buy them!) to her now? How can I prepare without books?

Oh, and my seminar starts in less than two weeks. In other words, I'm fucked. Kinda.

Could copy the books before I hand them over, I suppose. But that would take hours - hours that I really need for *reading* them, and deciding what I'm going to do with them in the seminar etc.

Could buy them all, too. But, eeek. So expensive. Also, who knows when they would actually arrive.