coffee....

ok, so yesterday i sat through 8 hours of training on diabetes....nothing i had not heard before....but free continuing education that meets requirements....anyway....after driving over 1 hour, i was aghast to discover that the organizers.....state-employees all.....hadn't bothered to supply coffee..or any beverage for that matter......and because this meeting took place in a basically rural locale, there wasn't even a place to obtain any......not that i came emptyhanded.....i had a travel mug-full, but it had gone cold during the drive in the driving rain/dark/traffic.....and this meeting place had no microwave to use in rewarming it......fastforward to lunch.......presented as some sort of advertisement for uk's new health weight loss program.......by a rather hefty ph.d. dietitian who made some feeble comment about how success in weight loss should be judged not on reaching ideal weight, but on keeping off a set amount of weight.....implying that she is keeping off the 50 pounds that separate her from 300 pounds........frankly, 250 pound dietitians should not present weight loss pitches.......she did bring lunch.......a cupful of caeser-style salad that had a bit of tuna in it....a tiny soy flour muffin, and a 1/4 cup of a yogurt/berry combination........and nothing to drink because beverages were not a priority to the planning group.......by 4:30 i could have eaten my right hand.......at some point last nightmy spouse finally asked me the important question of the day...at what point would i/could i get over it?...........now that my experience has been blogged.......i am over it as of now.......coffee in hand makes getting over anything easier........