One down

One more to go.

Had a job interview this morning, which went relatively well. I’m not qualified for the job, but they might offer to train me at a lower salary. Or they might not. I think it’s easier to learn technical stuff than it is to learn sales skills, so I am a good prospect, and I think they liked me. I’ll hear next week.

Another interview on Monday morning.

Popped over to Mosman to see the shop where I’ll be working for the next few weeks, and I can see that I will be able to make a difference there. Then off to the doc to get the results of last weeks blood test. Hep A immunity is OK, but I should have the Hep B shots. And Typhoid. Or was it cholera? No nasty stomach bugs causing my reflux, but I do have a vitamin D deficiency. Apparently it’s somewhat of an epidemic in IT workers who never see the sun. No problem, I just have to “take some fish oil supplements”, says the doctor. “Fish are friends, not food”, says Lara. General hilarity ensues. Apparently my freaky aversion to eating sentient creatures will lead to cancer, bone deformation, osteoporosis, tiredness, depression, muscle loss, fractures, muscles spasms, low calcium, eczema, tourettes, halitosis, acne, syphilis, obsessive compulsive disorder, mange, plague and an escalation of conflict in the middle east. And someone, somewhere will be mean to a puppy.

Or at lease some of the above. And I already have a very mild form of tourettes. Hardly noticeable at all.

I need 1000 “international units” of a vitamin d supplement per day for a few months to normalise my levels before I have another blood test and can use sun exposure and diet to keep my levels at a normal level. Right now, they are so low that diet and sun exposure alone won’t cut the mustard.

The thought of eating fish (even in capsule form) makes me gag, but I’ve always said that if my diet came down to me and a cow on a desert island with no other source of food, I’d be chasing after the cow with an axe.

Has it come to that ?