Posted by alexandra_k on April 15, 2015, at 1:08:26
In reply to Re: fear » alexandra_k, posted by jane d on April 14, 2015, at 17:17:48
Hey. Thanks for your post :-) I appreciate it, a lot.
I think I was losing it, a little bit, with the stress.
The weather has turned cooler now, finally. That means I can sleep with the windows shut. That really cuts down on the road noise. That helps a lot. We get some heavy traffic at night from the harbour. And there is building construction just a little bit down the road, too. My curtains don't really get things dark inside, either. So I've turned my bed around to sleep at night so my head is in the quieter and darker centre of my room and it really seems to help.
I've also shifted my focus from global to local. I brought a LED lightbulb for my desklamp. Got an organic chicken, rather than just the cheapest one. I've started reading labels better, and figured out a particular brand of cleaning stuff / bathroom product that is safe for septic tanks etc... Because when the sewerage system is overloaded (as it often is) then they dump things into the harbour... I never really thought properly about where the water pipes (and sewerage pipes) go before...
And keeping up the gym, yeah. I don't have a lot of time to spend... But it is important to spend some. I try and play... Take the gym ball into the squash court and kick / punch it about... Battling ropes... Working on my cartwheels... Having fun with it. Keeping it light (careful of my ankle, now).
Classes start back next week and it will be really full on... I think I've got into the swing of how I best learn biology and I'll have a better time of keeping up from now on, I think. I got a bit far behind, I think. Nothing irrevokable, but I need to do better from now on, for sure. Chemistry is... Damn... It is a hard one for me because it is still really very different from anything I've done before. Can spend hours trying to follow through the freaking 9 step equations they want us to be using for labs, or whatever.
On the upside, I have a wonderful packet of rainbow colored highlighters, now. And embryology lady taught me a good one about the arbitrariness of color (by changing up the colors in our lab manual for the model embryo we were supposed to build so I messed up the wiring / forgot the allantois). Anyway... Focusing on what is important, again. Don't have a tantrum that the temporal lobe ain't green. Sigh.
Onward ho...
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