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Tired
Today I am tired. This is mostly due to a dog that decided to get sick in the middle of the night (he did this last week to in the midst of orientation week). It must have caught me just wrong because despite going back to bed, I don’t feel that I’ve slept enough. I managed to not caffeinate at all today, a good thing because all the caffiene choices I have are not good for me. But, I can hardly wait to get home. The work list at home doesn’t allow me to sleep right away. I’ll have to figure out what can get crossed off the list. The…
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Exhaustion, stress, and headaches
Today I had definitive proof that I have a connection betwee exhaustion and headaches. I had the data last April, but today was a prime example. The past twenty-four hours have been a time of heightened vigilance regarding my son and his mental health. The start of this episode began at almost two in the morning. When I wake up that early and are ripped from the Nexus, I feel physically sick until I wake up enough to be alert. My husband and I discussed the issue and the steps we would need to take the next day for a few hours. We also discussed his reaction and how he…
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Day in review August 27, 2015
I have yet another headache. It is making me short tempered and judgmental. Someone is sitting near me that had an odor that isn’t helping. I’m listening to the guy next to me discuss with his kid, the editorial changes he made to his homework. There are more than a few that are on the rush hour train taking up extra seats. Earlier today, I was supposed to spend about six hours at a variety of clincal shadowing experiences, but I was stood up (essentially). It left me with a free day, but I didn’t use it as productively as I would like. Which always brings me back to the…
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Stress
In many of my entries so far I have been navel gazing at my life and how it relates to a number of different emotional or mental aspects. I thik what is happening is my tumbling toward managing stress. Job shifts are counted as major life changes. This has been a positive one and relatively bigger than most, which for the last two have been lateral moves. I need to look closely at my headache data, but I sense a headache when I get overwhelmed and feel that I’m either not performing enough (quantity) or worry that I can’t pull it all off (quantity and quality). I have a headache…
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Site environment and stress
Friday I spent the day in one of our regional locations. I had planned on this to make sure that my site students had the same in-person availability that my home students did. I went to site and students didn’t come. I brought other work in case that happened, but the majority of it didn’t get done. I got work done, it just wasn’t that work. What I did get done was an initial scouting for workshops we have internal funding for. Made impromptu appointments and discussed opportunities. I was warmly received and felt that I got a lot accomplished in a few conversations. For this particular project, this was…