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Week 1 of Spring Quarter
Monday: Classes 8am-1pm, get textbookts from library, clinical practice 2pm-5:30pm, meeting the 3 guys of the Old Candyshop Apartment (crossing my fingers its just as nice and its sounds!)
Tuesday: Classes 9am-3pm + Mandatory DPT Class Meeting, eat and catch up on studies
Wednesday: “Wellness Day” at our Rec Center, 12:30-2:30 retake of an Evidence Based Practice Final (ugh), Dinner date with two good friends 6pm, RA Duty 7pm-7am
Thursday: lasses 8am-3pm, Drexel Housing Fair 4pm-6pm, RA Staff Meeting 9pm-11pm to set up duty assignments for the whole spring quarter (it’s gonna be a long, anxiety building one!)
Friday: Classes 8:30am-5pm, studies and catch up after
And put in more lots of “Study and Catch up” in the between parts. Oh, and eating is usually good too.
the bends
n. frustration that you’re not enjoying an experience as much as you should, even something you’ve worked for years to attain, which prompts you to plug in various thought combinations to try for anything more than static emotional blankness, as if your heart had been accidentally demagnetized by a surge of expectations.
Also: You probably love doing but do too much.
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Schedule: Winter Quarter 2012 (minus random Mandatory Class Meetings and Case Rounds)
Outlook: Dying.
Normal College Students: Up in very late hours of the night.
Abnormal Angela Student: Up in very early hours of the morning.
My Thoughts on this different sleep schedule:
- My brain simply works better and I’m more productive the first half of the day.
- Early to bed, early to rise
- This is good routine for Graduate school 8am courses
- The average hospital has therapists arrive to work around 7:30am, more of a good routine
On stampeding, strolling, whatever is necessary to go forward without time to turn and look backwards.
There’s no time for it all.
There’s no time for exercising and buying new clothes at a cheap price, making hair look nice, keeping a clean and clear face, staying flexible.
There’s no time for bar hopping and staying on top of school work, being dedicated to a job that houses you, balancing respect and play, maintaining a sleep schedule to avoid the frequent college zombie appearance.
There’s no time to fully enjoy the city surrounding you and stay closely knit with family at home, take long weekend vacations, keep an affordable spending limit.
All of these find at odds and ends with each other. They keep you constantly on your feet or constantly thinking, both which are equally exhausting.
Sure, one could call it the rush of life, but this is sometimes just plain ridiculous. My responsibilities are rushed, my enjoyments are rushed, my hard work is rushed. I still doubt most of my friends and family understand that. Many friends simply didn’t respond to me despite my outreach while visiting ‘hometown home.’ My parents ask if I’m ‘okay’ when I’m simply in study work mode with spread out notes. Both parties don’t realize the need for planning to happen, for things to be talked about now rather than ‘next week’ when you will most likely forget. I am open to discussing anything, just communicate with me, please.
I’ll be honest, writing this really isn’t solving anything. It already confirms what I know-attachment takes involvement, involvement keeps one on a very busy schedule, and not everybody meshes well with one another’s.
It’s just legitimately frustrating. And sometimes there’s no time to explain, reinforce, or coerce those concerns and frustrations, but just continue on because you have too.
Especially when left alone and not being ‘busied’ by things going on around me. Otherwise, life and schedules go pretty fast and that I can handle.
Be okay with having free time and spending it doing whatever you enjoy damnit.
(Source: leilockheart)
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But really, your brain can only hold so much thought and care. Don’t think quantity over quality. You’ll forget names, forget important dates, and not be really dedicated in the end.
Take it from somebody whose been there (RA community, student class community, greek community, coop community, family community, ALOT.)
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A tell-tale sign that you do too much
You zone out
Your misplace things. A lot.
You can’t concentrate (when you do have a hell of a lot to get done) because you don’t know where to begin.
On Brains & letting them (not) go on vacation.
The pink squiggly thing that lives in my head is a never ending ticking piece of equipment. Even if my whole body is tired, by brain worries, plans, and thinks.
How are you getting to work tomorrow? What new thing are you cooking so the vegetables in your fridge don’t go bad? Can you buy that skirt cheaper somewhere else? How are your cousins doing? What new show is going on and when can you go, at the cheapest price, and with who? What are you doing for housing during Graduate school, who are you living with, are you going to have a job on the side..or even want to?
It never stops.
Can I take my brain out and place it aside for just a few hours?
Overly excited for Advanced Anatomy (ANAT 420) even though it means waking up at 7:15am three days a week to catch a shuttle to the Center City Campus.
BUT this does not include:
- RA Responsibilities
- Franklin Fountain work shifts
- Sorority Life
- Getting Health Care/PT Experience
- Enjoying the city
Oh Life.
To schedule or not to schedule. To expect or not to expect. To plan or not to plan.
That is ALWAYS the question. It is ALWAYS the most difficult fine judgment line.
Yes plan, schedule, and hold expectations. No don’t over-plan, over-schedule, and don’t hold crazy expectations.
Trust that it will get done. Act on it, not overstress about it. ‘It’ is the collective term for everything that comes underneath every category or life, work, and play.
Easier said than done.
Adjectives
Whenever the tough gets going, I whip this out. It’s a few go to reminders of how close ones perceive me, and an automatic picker-upper.
I’ve even laminated the thing at work because it’s a constant in my stressful routine (and not so routine) schedule.
On Scheduling, calling, emailing, and getting nowhere
Sometimes I wonder what the POINT is. If you have an email address, answer those emails. If you have a phone number, return a call, especially if a voice message was left. If I give you availability dates and times, respect them, don’t overbook me.
Yes, I do a lot for people. I offer myself constantly, I organize constantly, I put my out there constantly. DON’T SCREW ME OVER.
I didn’t ‘plan’ to be so stressed in the past 30 minutes or so. I was actually cheerful and being productive. Now hello Regina Spektor, gorging on more ice cream that now leaves me hurting, and going mad with post it notes and pen.
