when one is stressed with lots of things in their life, they deal with their stress in different ways. some people exercise (which i should do today), some people eat (which i did out of need to relinquish dizzy spells), and some don’t eat (which i really wish i didn’t eat those greasy chicken tenders and crap salad).
so its almost the end of another week as a grad. student. besides pseudo mini breakdowns, it was good i guess. sometimes i feel like i’m sinking under my workload. i abandon my hobbies and pleasures to “catch up” the best i can, no not even catch up, but just to do my work. but i still feel like i’m always behind. that my lack of being on top of things all the time is just going to piss someone off. grad. school is great BUT, it can be a lose lose situation.
this weekend i’m racing for wvu again. i think we’re going all the way to south carolina. you would think that i would be dreading the 7 hr/ 14 hr round trip drive…but i’m not. i’ve never ridden before in south carolina and the chance of mtb variation seems exciting. my mind wonders with what the trail might look like. this weekend i think will be good for my mental equilibrium. i need a break from french stuff. its stressing me out now and i need something else to focus on besides my always present self doubt of french skills and quickly acquiring workload.
fatiguely shopping, cranium playing, bike riding with da boys… dark knight watching, beer un-drinking…sleeping in till 1 in the afternoon, long distance walking, foreign laundry toting, man i need some mc do’s, walmart shopping, dead snake stopping, time to go to someone else’s home, tv watching, vacuum building, time to eat chorba, deadly dishwashing, practical magic watching, walking my ass home, friendly ride catching, sitting and relaxing on my porch…almost ready for another week, maybe.
Hello everyone out there in blog world. Being the sheep in life that I am, I decided to do as everyone else is doing, putting their thoughts on-line for everyone to see. No, non, nicht. I kid. Initially I was inspired by a former classmate of mine who has been doing this for awhile and I thought, hey I could do that. I thought what I needed was a journal. No, that’s not the case at all. I tried keeping a journal, I mean its fine and dandy when I’m abroad. But when I’m at home I just can’t commit to it.
My head is always swarming with thoughts. You could say that I’m one of those people who never ever stops thinking. Which you could say is good, but sometimes it gets me into trouble. I think too much and I over-think things to the point that I now have completely altered my mood for the next few hours because of what I was thinking just to pass the time. So in trying to be more pro-active in my life, I’ve decided to place the burden of random always streaming thoughts on the internet for everyone to see.
Plus, I have a big life change happening, well, tomorrow and I know that blogging my experience would be very helpful. Graduate school, the last educational frontier. So that’s where I’m going and that’s where this blog is going too. So check out the decline of my social life as I continue onto the path of being a French geek.
