Stress, Do Work, Poop, Repeat

I prefer humanity classes. You rarely ever have a class that has homework due every day, your readings are lowkey optional-- like if you don’t do a reading every once in a while, your grade won’t suffer, and you have waves of stressful times and times where things are more chill. But I say all this to say, that I am EXTREMELY busy: I barely have time to breath. I have quizzes due everyday and mini-exams due every Friday for my physics class. Then I have readings for my research method classes due every Tuesday and Thursday. And I have homework for my cell biology class every week. It is just a lot of work and I feel like if I try to give myself a break for even a second, I will fall behind. But this weekend, I guess I was just physically exhausted, I had body aches and felt really tired. I didn’t think I necessarily worked that hard these past few weeks. But literally this weekend, every time I would start doing work I would fall asleep: my body literally just wouldn’t let me do anything.

And this is literally not even half of what I did last week

So I accepted that fact late Saturday evening and decided to stop trying. I took some R&R. Then I woke early to go to church but choose to instead go to go back to sleep because I was still tired. Luckily Claire woke me up later and told me to come with her to church. So I did. After church we decided to go to a cafe, and I was somehow to do a lot of my work! Like the reading the reading that took me fours to only read three pages, now only took me an hour to finish the all of it. It kind of sucks because I only caught up on the work that I wanted to complete last week today, but it also taught me a lesson. I need to give myself a break. So that is something that I am going to try to do this week. After I get through this week of work and classes, I am going to take Friday off. Then I am going to resume work Saturday morning and then take another break Saturday evening. I will tell you guys how that goes!

Anyway, I am still doing well mentally. I am honestly kind of surprised, but I will take it. Because I work a lot, I have balanced it by forcing myself to visit everyone’s room once I am officially home. So seeing everyone and chatting for a bit has been nice. Then in the mornings, I wake up early with Aboni to go to exercise and then afterwards we eat breakfast before going our separate ways. And anytime I have spare times, I try to call/text my family and friends. I think doing these little things are helping me to stay positive and keep me in a good headspace. So I thank you all for your time, I really appreciate :’))

I hope you all are doing well. We only have 24 days until fall break, 2 months and 9 days until thanksgiving break, and 2 months and 24 days until the last day of classes! Do good everyone!

YASSSSS GAGA