February 10, 2006

• i think i'm getting used to being tired

  this whole working 20+ hours a week and going to school full-time thing is starting to weigh a lot.  it's like i'm in a persistent state of being tired--like i have chronic fatigue syndrome--and i'm just now starting to get over the cough that started the second week of december.  count it people, that's like a three-month long cough.  oh yeah, and a few weeks ago i really learned to appreciate air because my sinuses and nose were so congested and my throat was so swollen and full of mucous that it took a concerted effort for me to breathe in a lying down position, and i had a hard time sleeping because i was scared that i was going to wake up suffocating.  fun.

  so it takes me me about an hour to get to work and another hour to get  home.  13 minutes of going to work is spent walking to the bus stop and 17 minutes of going home is spent walking to the apartment so i can squeeze in some exercise during the day.  the rest of the that time--ie on the bus--is spent doing reading for school.  when i don't read, like today (i read like 2 pages), because i'm too tired or because my head hurts, it sets me back.  it's crazy that i actually NEED to use my time on the bus to study. and when things like birthdays come up (january and february are FULL of birthdays!!!!), i'm only semi-excited because that's less time i'll have to do my schoolwork and work on my work-work, which has become harder, since i'm teaching writing workshops--which means lesson planning and researching and reading and commenting; in the past couple of weeks, i've only gone home on time like once, and i still have work to do at home.  

  lately i've been averaging about 6 1/2 hours of sleep, which i know is fine and even a lot to some people, but for me, it's just not enough.  i'm trying to increase my energy and have been working out on the
  weekends and just added strength training this week, just so i'm not
  feeling so blah. i'm trying to improve my nutrition and have been more conscious of getting enough from the different food groups.  it's funny because i did this health asessment thing online and i needed to increase my intake of vegetables and carbs (good carbs of course =P).   vitamin water is good.  you should buy some.

  so the point of all this is that professor crawford was right when she emailed me "you are at least on the verge of overdoing it."  i think that when the fall comes, i'll be cutting down on my work hours.  then when the next spring semester starts, when i will be turning 25 and will no longer be eligible to covered under my dads insurance, i will increase my work hours, get work insurance, and drop to half time.  yes.

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