I guess sometimes people can just have low hormone levels, but it’s relatively uncommon for someone as young as myself.  I’m back on Androgel now and the promotional materials crack me up because they are targeted to men in their 60s.

Jeff and I moved to a new apartment back in March (and I’m still unpacking).  Barnard provided the apartment in exchange for my joining the emergency on-call administrator rotation.  We’ve got much more space now, but I miss the dishwasher in our old apartment.  And, we’re across the street from the curved apartment building featured in Enchanted!

Back in November, MetaFilter-founder Matt Haughey discovered he had a brain tumor.  The description of his accompanying low hormone levels sounded familiar to me, so I scheduled my first physical in a decade.  Blood tests determined that I had low testosterone, so my doctor prescribed Androgel.

The Androgel put a little spring back in my step, but the endocrinologist I was referred to asked that I discontinue it so he could retest my hormone levels.  So, for the past two months, I’ve felt even more tired and run down than I did before.

My latest test results determined I should get a MRI (scheduled for Wednesday) to check out my pituitary gland.  I’m trying not to get worried and assume that I have a brain tumor just because Matt Haughey has one, but I’m seeing too many parallels in the narrative.

I phoned my mom yesterday and told for the first time about all these tests I’ve been going through.  I joked, “At least there’s no history of brain tumors in our family,” and she replied that, actually, my grandfather had a brain tumor for years.  So now all I can do is wait for the MRI results and try not to freak out.

I’d love to see new features added (apps, Hulu, better online scheduling, public posting of my Now Showing / To Do list on the web, etc), but I’m weary after seeing how slow & clunky the last new feature (TiVo Search) was (I never use it). My experience of viewing TV for the past decade has been framed by the TiVo interface — I hope they don’t fuck it up.

I had a dream last night about a new TiVo UI and it used Comic Sans. It made me cry.

I wanted more control over the data than TheLineDiet.com gives (but still update/access the data from multiple locations), so I’ve set up a Google Spreadsheet (based on this Excel version).

Here is a live chart from the data:

So far, not so good.

Update: I’ve fiddled around with the dates & such and set a more realistic goal.

I always laugh with one of my college students mention blogs to me and feel like they have to explain what they are… If they only knew.

I haven’t posted much in recent years, but I haven’t had any reason to take the blog down. I had set up Facebook to automatically import my blog entries, but I feel like it may have caused me to start self-censoring myself, so I’ve disabled it.