Making a bad day even worse

Yesterday I got the news that I wasn't shortlisted for the Clinical Masters course at the University of South Africa.  What a blow!  I knew that my chances of getting in were slim (10 out of 500 students get in!), but I'm devastated nonetheless.

My pre-diagnosis mathod for dealing with this kind of situation would be to eat a ton of chocolate and watch a sad movie.  In trying to adjust this method, I ate two bars of chocolate (a severe reduction in my usual amount), bought myself some stationery (4 portable concertina files, a Marvin Gaye/Teddy Pendergrass double CD, and some coloured sticky notes), and watched Atonement. 

Despite spacing my chocolate intake out (one bar at lunch, the other an hour after supper) my pancreas is clearly not coping.  My pre-sleep reading last night was 6.2 (111.8), and my fasting reading was the same.  I've just had breakfast now, but think I'm going to have to try to get a walk in during the course of the morning to try to lower it.  I guess I'm going to have to find a new way of dealing with disappointments.