Asylum
I'm heading home to Pittsburgh tonight for a weekend trip.
It couldn't have come sooner. This is one of my better ways to recollect my thoughts and clear my mind of the stress. Part of the bad thing about stress is letting it get to me. I do it too much because my mind is wired to be in overdrive constantly. What I've forgotten how to do is use the techniques I learned last summer to slow the processes down for relaxing purposes, such as falling asleep faster.
It takes me an average of laying in bed for 2 hours to conk out. And then it takes me about a half hour of laying there to stir in the morning. I've set my alarm to compensate, but I don't know why I can't kick myself out of bed as fast as I used to. This means going to bed earlier than before just to get the sleep I need and then rising earlier to move at the pace required.
I haven't resigned to a possible fate of moving home yet. The parents aren't a problem, nor is the scenery. I just don't want it to be seen as a failure to accomplish my goals in DC. It's a tough market. I've fought a good fight. If I need to go get more training, such as a Master's degree, one of the best ways to pinch pennies is to live at home where the parents don't charge me rent. This cuts a huge chunk out of the budget, but it comes with many drawbacks, especially when I'm trying to get out there and meet girls again.
Very difficult to hit the date scene when you don't know where you're going to be in a month...or a year from now...
It couldn't have come sooner. This is one of my better ways to recollect my thoughts and clear my mind of the stress. Part of the bad thing about stress is letting it get to me. I do it too much because my mind is wired to be in overdrive constantly. What I've forgotten how to do is use the techniques I learned last summer to slow the processes down for relaxing purposes, such as falling asleep faster.
It takes me an average of laying in bed for 2 hours to conk out. And then it takes me about a half hour of laying there to stir in the morning. I've set my alarm to compensate, but I don't know why I can't kick myself out of bed as fast as I used to. This means going to bed earlier than before just to get the sleep I need and then rising earlier to move at the pace required.
I haven't resigned to a possible fate of moving home yet. The parents aren't a problem, nor is the scenery. I just don't want it to be seen as a failure to accomplish my goals in DC. It's a tough market. I've fought a good fight. If I need to go get more training, such as a Master's degree, one of the best ways to pinch pennies is to live at home where the parents don't charge me rent. This cuts a huge chunk out of the budget, but it comes with many drawbacks, especially when I'm trying to get out there and meet girls again.
Very difficult to hit the date scene when you don't know where you're going to be in a month...or a year from now...