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My BP was 110/74 this morning, and the same scale that weighed me last week at the clinic says that I now weigh about 8 lbs less. That's a lot of water-retention! People always tell me I'm crazy when I tell them how my body holds onto water. The proof is in the pudding. Or in the toilet, in this case.

I was given my 6-month review yesterday at work, albeit a month late -- but better late than never. It went really well and I received a glowing review. I think things are really starting to look up at work, whereas six months ago I was ready to jump off a bridge. I hope this optimism sticks around because it sure makes it easier to get up in the morning and give 11 hours of my day to my job.

Everything else has been tough, since starting the diet/exercise routine I am just exhausted all the time. I can easily sleep 12 hours a night lately. I have my doctor's appointment this morning for the blood pressure issue. Hopefully it's more under control, even though it's only been a week that I've been working on it...

I bought this book because I had heard the movie was gory and I was thinking I could handle the gore more easily in book-form than in right-in-front-of-your-eyeballs-form. Actually I think that part turned out to be very true, since it didn't seem alarmingly gory to me.

Seeing Will Smith on the cover of the book made me anxious to read a story where I could picture him as the main character. It makes it so much easier to be able to put a familiar face and mannerisms and such to a book character, so that's another reason the book intrigued me. Very early on in the book, however, it was made very clear by the character descriptions that the main character is supposed to be an older, white, German guy, with "long blond hair and deep blue eyes." Um? That's when I started to get confused.

The book goes into great detail about his fight to stay alive despite all the neighbors who attack his house every night because they want to drink his blood. He's got a generator to support his electricity, he boards up his windows, he has a hot-house where he grows lots of garlic, he hangs up mirrors on the front door, he has a tattoo of a cross, he travels to Sears and the grocery store in the afternoons to do his "shopping," and he goes around from house to house every day with his homemade stakes to knock off as many baddies as he can while they're in their mid-day comas.

Then, at about 2/3rds of the way into the book, he's caught and ends up dying. Why the heck did I invest so much energy into this character only to have him killed off this late in the game?

As if I'm not already confused enough by the character switch, and then the main character dying after so much effort to stay alive, now I start into the next chapter of the book and it has absolutely nothing to do with the first 2/3rds of the book. I assumed it was separate horror stories or something but they're separated by chapter numbers, not different parts with different titles. The first one had some scary scene of some wooden doll that was alive and tried to kill a woman, and then the woman wanted to kill someone. I skipped over most of the end of that because it was just gross and scary and stupid. Then I skipped to the next chapter and it started with something like, "There were seven little girls all in a row..." and I said screw this, I'm not reading this crap. So I skipped to the end of the book and didn't see any familiar character names at all, and closed the book with a disgusted huff.

What gives with this story? Am I missing something?

I finished my Library/Research class over the weekend. My final project was to write a References page for a research question we all had to come up with earlier in the course. The References page had to have five references that were scholarly, one of which had to be a book, and the rest just had to be articles from scholarly journals. Three of the references had to be annotated. Since the course teaches the APA style of formatting, I looked in my APA manual for a sample References page -- just to see a general idea of what one should look like. I couldn't find one, nor could I find one in the course modules/lectures. So I hope I passed, but who knows.

I also worked on a website project for my sister-in-law, who works for Fidelity & Trust Mortgage. She used to work for Vangard Mortgage and that's what was all over the website, so I had to change the logo and all the text to reflect the new company. I hope I caught all of it.

At some point soon I want to write a book report for you all on I am Legend. Did any of you read the book, or see the movie with Will Smith? I just finished the book (no desire to see the movie) and I am compelled to write about it since I have lots of questions.