I’ve been agonizing dying slowly stressed out a little bit these past few weeks over my work and class schedule; specifically, about how successfully I can manage my courseload this semester while meeting the challenges of my recent promotion. While I had eagerly cut down my office hours from 50+ to 40 each week in order to make it to my evening classes on time, I’m just taking more and more of it home instead: it gets squeezed in between class projects and studying and I’m getting some of it none of it completed as well as I’d like. Family and friends are becoming strangers, personal projects have been relegated to permanent backburner status, and most of the time I’m just trying to figure out how to make it to the end of the day without dropping too many balls in the process. My to-do list at work is titled, “5 Things I Need To Accomplish Today So That I Don’t Get Fired”. For reals.
After an eye-opening discussion with an intern at my last doctor’s appointment and a hard look at my schedule, I decided to withdraw from one of my classes and to take some time off next month to rest and review my priorities for the upcoming year. I haven’t decided what to do, if anything, with work at this point, but reducing my courseload from three classes to two has introduced a little bit of breathing room into my life again… which I have promptly turned around and used for stressing out. But one thing at a time, right?
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