Wednesday I go in for my Glucose Tolerance Test. It's a fairly common screening in North America, but less frequently done here in Europe. Basically I get to go into the doctor's office with an empty stomach, have some blood drawn, then they give me some super-mega-sticky-sweet beverage and draw my blood several times over the next few hours to see how my blood sugar levels are. The idea is to determine whether I am at risk for gestational diabetes. Sounds to me like a cross between Abu Ghraib and a particularly twisted episode of Buffy.