Well hello, Mr. Stress

11Aug09

As I mentioned briefly in my last “post” – school is going to be starting again soon (2.5 weeks!) and I am planning on taking two classes. Yes, two graduate level courses while working 40 hours a week. Am I crazy? I don’t know, I guess we’ll find out. Originally I was going to take one class, class A – one of the typical first semester classes in the program, and call it a day. But then I heard that class B (another first semester in the program) was being taught by a professor I like, as opposed to a crazy one who I have heard mixed reviews on, I decided to go for it.

The classes are supposed to be very different — class A is very hands-on, designing, working on group projects, actually doing stuff; class B is mostly reading and discussion, no assignments and the like. So hopefully with the different work loads I will be able to survive the semester.

And if that weren’t enough, I have (again) decided that rock climbing is awesome and that I want to do it on a regular basis. I even ordered my very own harness! So this means that I must try to squeeze in one or two climbing sessions in a week along with everything else.

There are a lot of great things happening in my life — I have really started to realize what amazing friends I have — the group of crazy girls who all live in town, the ones that never fail to make a vagina joke and amaze me with their crafting skills and ridiculous parties. Now I also have an amazing group of friends from school — the group that is always up for going out on the town, loves to hang out together – the boys and the girls, and also having some awesome girl time. It really makes me feel special to be a part of their circle.

I don’t know where the tangent came from, but the point is that I have all kinds of stuff I want to be doing and sometimes there just isn’t enough hours in the day, or week . . . But I am trying to tell myself that I am still young and that this is the time to be doing these things and I need to take better care of myself so I can get by on five hours of sleep and try to pack as much as possible into my life. Part of me also realizes that there just may not be time for everything and everyone and that I need to decide what it really important to ME and makes ME happy.

So that’s the story. Hopefully it won’t take me too far into the semester to figure out how to balance everything. Wish me luck!

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