Well, my first assignment has been handed in. I'm still hyped on caffeine and a total lack of nutritious food in the last couple of days. Very little sleep due to stress probably isn't helping matters any
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I tended to find Exam stress and Coursework stress to be wholy different. Still they are both as evil as one another and I hope that you aren't stressing out too much about it all. The only thing I can suggest is make sure you do have a day during the weekend/week just for yourself, don't let yourself end up working 7 days a week or you will end up burning out.
My essays should be ok, though really it is high time I started on them, along with everything else which I need to start on at the moment. As for the teaching, the lesson went well and I ended up having to do it twice (although the second time was a disaster resource wise as I had no means of using my presentation to teach and had to do it all without any visual learning available). However, I have put off replying to you about it, because yesterday I made (in my mind) a very small mistake and got seriously put down for it. Its not made me very happy and needless to say going out last night was an exercise in letting go of a bit of stress. Didn't work, but still I'm just about ok right now.
Well if you ever need anything than send me a line (If you would like to call than Heather can pass on my phone number. Not 100% happy about putting online as you might understand).
This is actually the first time since I was fourteen that coursework has counted in my final grades, so I'm feeling my way through the stress. It's not pretty.;-) And I'm trying to keep Saturdays as my day off; you're right in that it's absolutely necessary to just focus on not work for a while.
It sounds like you need some time off as well - it's about this period in term when everything seems to come down like a tonne of bricks. I'm sorry you had a bad day - same thing has happened to me on occasion, that I've been really castigated for something insignificant, and it always leaves me feeling crappy and self-doubting. And being told to "move on" doesn't help!
Hope you find some way of relaxing soon. I managed to find some balance by dancing it all away last night - was the New Scotland beginners' dance: four hours non-stop dancing and yelling. Exhausted but happy today! *hugs*
A mere 6 more weeks and then I get a couple of weeks off. I'll have a lot of work to do during that time, but at least there is a break coming along and that is quite nice in a way.
Yeah, it would be nice to go dancing again. I haven't been for quite a long while now (at least since the end of last year I would imagine), and there isn't anything like that around here at all. I just seem to remember feeling a lot better, no matter what my week was like, if I went out to the Ceilidhs in Sheffield.
Suppose the biggest issue at the moment to get past is wondering if this is the right thing for me to be doing. Self-doubt is something I have had a lot of recently, and so I'm just trying my best at the moment. Get this feeling though that I'm not doing enough, but that I'm not really able to do any more anyway.
And dancing always makes me feel better, although some kinds more than others. Scottish is, unfortunately, one of the least cathartic forms of dancing for me (not enough feeling the music or screaming), but with live music, all that changes. *beams*
I know the feeling, about not doing enough - we have one lecturer who managed to get three people in my tutorial crying yesterday because he seems to think we should all be doing more. Luckily, I have thicker skin than them, and also a more appropriate level of respect for my own health. *sends good thoughts your way*
My essays should be ok, though really it is high time I started on them, along with everything else which I need to start on at the moment. As for the teaching, the lesson went well and I ended up having to do it twice (although the second time was a disaster resource wise as I had no means of using my presentation to teach and had to do it all without any visual learning available). However, I have put off replying to you about it, because yesterday I made (in my mind) a very small mistake and got seriously put down for it. Its not made me very happy and needless to say going out last night was an exercise in letting go of a bit of stress. Didn't work, but still I'm just about ok right now.
Well if you ever need anything than send me a line (If you would like to call than Heather can pass on my phone number. Not 100% happy about putting online as you might understand).
Hope all is well.
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It sounds like you need some time off as well - it's about this period in term when everything seems to come down like a tonne of bricks. I'm sorry you had a bad day - same thing has happened to me on occasion, that I've been really castigated for something insignificant, and it always leaves me feeling crappy and self-doubting. And being told to "move on" doesn't help!
Hope you find some way of relaxing soon. I managed to find some balance by dancing it all away last night - was the New Scotland beginners' dance: four hours non-stop dancing and yelling. Exhausted but happy today! *hugs*
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Yeah, it would be nice to go dancing again. I haven't been for quite a long while now (at least since the end of last year I would imagine), and there isn't anything like that around here at all. I just seem to remember feeling a lot better, no matter what my week was like, if I went out to the Ceilidhs in Sheffield.
Suppose the biggest issue at the moment to get past is wondering if this is the right thing for me to be doing. Self-doubt is something I have had a lot of recently, and so I'm just trying my best at the moment. Get this feeling though that I'm not doing enough, but that I'm not really able to do any more anyway.
Ah well, as always I'll be alright in the end.
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And dancing always makes me feel better, although some kinds more than others. Scottish is, unfortunately, one of the least cathartic forms of dancing for me (not enough feeling the music or screaming), but with live music, all that changes. *beams*
I know the feeling, about not doing enough - we have one lecturer who managed to get three people in my tutorial crying yesterday because he seems to think we should all be doing more. Luckily, I have thicker skin than them, and also a more appropriate level of respect for my own health.
*sends good thoughts your way*
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