March 11 – March 17

Hectic. Stressful. That about sums it up.

My schedule is so tightly packed that anytime something else gets tacked on to my schedule, I feel it immediately.

This week was a perfect storm of assignments for both classes, job interview that killed my free afternoon, asking people for references (urgh), lots of stuff going on at work, online class video-chat class meeting, etc, etc.

I fear my ears may become permanently glued to my shoulders. I might wire my jaw shut with stress-clenching alone. Everything I eat, I feel like I have eaten lead.

It’s not a downward spiral, though. It’s just a season. Things are not going to feel better until I have more time on my hands, which will happen in May. It sucks because things aren’t going to ease up – except incrementally and intermittently from day to day, week to week – in fact, they are likely to get worse before they get better.

But it’s 100% situational. This is comforting. Situations change, and in eight short weeks, I will have an entirely different life.

One in which I can read whatever I want, whenever I want, lest you forget.

Other notes of optimism:

1. I can’t wear a pair of pants I bought last summer because even fresh out of the wash, they are huge-mongous.
2. I got to eat a St. Patrick’s Day brunch cooked by actually Irish ladies. It was decadent and consisted mostly of Kerrygold cheese. Although I’m not sure if the green mimosa was all that traditional…
3. It’s getting dangerously close to skirt & dress season! I love you, global warming!

 

Reading:

• Frost by Marianna Baer. SCARIEST BOOK EVER. I couldn’t read this alone in my apartment at night. I don’t think that’s happened to me since I read the freaking Shining.
• Purity by Jackson Pearce

Listening to:

• More You Had To Be There
• I did have a moment this week with Rent, Original Broadway Cast Recording… then a bunch of people came into my office and it got awkward

Watching:

• I officially ran through every How I Met Your Mother episode. Again. I tried to download Season 7 but realized that’s the season that’s still going on…
• So now what do I watch when I want to watch a 30 minute comedy that I really don’t have to pay attention to while I eat/clean/live, etc? The winner: Scrubs.
• My podcast habits are turning me on to stand-up, which I haven’t watched since I was like, 14. This week was Louis CK (excellent) and Patton Oswalt (not as excellent)
• There was also a night with me, homework, a bottle of wine, and It’s Complicated. Ahem.