Division III is the worst of companions
I am burned. Somehow this week managed to turn itrself into the most stressful week of my Division III so far. This week my Division III finally got to the point where I was working instead of taking care of myself. I've missed three meals so far this week. I have to chuckle a bit, since Kelsey being in Boston has the unintended (and unexpected) consequence of leaving me to literally forget about taking care of myself and just work until I literally can't work anymore. I got so used to Kelsey's interruptions, which helped me remember to take breaks and to eat.
I had this week planned out, but at Monday's meeting Natalie asked me to do a lot of extra work I hadn't planned on doing and ironically told me to go to the Division III Support Group on Tuesday night. So I scrambled, literally working late into the evening on Monday and all through Tuesday to get it finished that night. The Education Division III Support group ended up being an awkward and utterly useless waste of time other than discovering there are only ten Div IIIs doing education projects, three of those actually in curriculum development, and only two of whom are men. I left early and ended up watching the first two episodes of Primeval (see my review below) with him and ordering food since I had worked through dinner.
So now I only had Wednesday to begin and finish the laborious process of re-organize and stringing together my now-gutted Division III paper. On Tuesday I had taken some of the Aderol I had been prescribed a few weeks ago to take as needed. Taking 10mg I didn't notice anything, so on Wednesday I stepped the dose up to 15mg as per the Doctor's instructions. Well, that's either the sweet-spot or where I start to OD, depending on what you're looking for from a drug. I worked all morning, and took my Aderol before leaving for lunch. In about an hour I started feeling really...well, stimulated. I became really shakey, and I could literally feel my heart doing everything it does only much much faster. I was really nervous and so Taverly (lj user="redfoxnine"> went with me on a short walk to try and calm my over-stimulated self down. Soon I was back to work, although not for long since Microsoft Office for Mac was slow to the point of being unusable when I tried to modify my extremely large document (maybe it was just the Aderol?). I ended up installing Office on my PC and settled down to work and working up until an hour or two ago. I got some of what I needed to get done, but not enough. I sent it off to Deb Gorlin with a brief note about why I didn't get done what I said for our meeting on Friday.
My body has calmed a lot, partly from the walk and because I also drank peppermint tea all day to try and off-set the fact that I was pretty much on speed. I probably need to stop being infront of my comptuer since I can't get my eyes to focus very well anymore and my hands are stiff and painful from all the typing. This must be one of those "natural breaks" they talked about at the Division III support group. I think for my own sanity I need to take the rest of the day off, get some food into ol' meatbag and try and find something to get my mind off things. Maybe I'll even do that socializing thing I've been neglecting recently.
For the rest of the week I'm finalizing, but more like seriously overhauling, my lesson plans and getting everything prepared. Next week I start my second week of teaching with the third and finally week immediately following. Once I'm through these next two and a half weeks everything and I mean everything will be better. From then until May I am just writing and revising, writing and revising, and writing and revising. But three weeks seems so damned far away.
May can't come fast enough.
I had this week planned out, but at Monday's meeting Natalie asked me to do a lot of extra work I hadn't planned on doing and ironically told me to go to the Division III Support Group on Tuesday night. So I scrambled, literally working late into the evening on Monday and all through Tuesday to get it finished that night. The Education Division III Support group ended up being an awkward and utterly useless waste of time other than discovering there are only ten Div IIIs doing education projects, three of those actually in curriculum development, and only two of whom are men. I left early and ended up watching the first two episodes of Primeval (see my review below) with him and ordering food since I had worked through dinner.
So now I only had Wednesday to begin and finish the laborious process of re-organize and stringing together my now-gutted Division III paper. On Tuesday I had taken some of the Aderol I had been prescribed a few weeks ago to take as needed. Taking 10mg I didn't notice anything, so on Wednesday I stepped the dose up to 15mg as per the Doctor's instructions. Well, that's either the sweet-spot or where I start to OD, depending on what you're looking for from a drug. I worked all morning, and took my Aderol before leaving for lunch. In about an hour I started feeling really...well, stimulated. I became really shakey, and I could literally feel my heart doing everything it does only much much faster. I was really nervous and so Taverly (lj user="redfoxnine"> went with me on a short walk to try and calm my over-stimulated self down. Soon I was back to work, although not for long since Microsoft Office for Mac was slow to the point of being unusable when I tried to modify my extremely large document (maybe it was just the Aderol?). I ended up installing Office on my PC and settled down to work and working up until an hour or two ago. I got some of what I needed to get done, but not enough. I sent it off to Deb Gorlin with a brief note about why I didn't get done what I said for our meeting on Friday.
My body has calmed a lot, partly from the walk and because I also drank peppermint tea all day to try and off-set the fact that I was pretty much on speed. I probably need to stop being infront of my comptuer since I can't get my eyes to focus very well anymore and my hands are stiff and painful from all the typing. This must be one of those "natural breaks" they talked about at the Division III support group. I think for my own sanity I need to take the rest of the day off, get some food into ol' meatbag and try and find something to get my mind off things. Maybe I'll even do that socializing thing I've been neglecting recently.
For the rest of the week I'm finalizing, but more like seriously overhauling, my lesson plans and getting everything prepared. Next week I start my second week of teaching with the third and finally week immediately following. Once I'm through these next two and a half weeks everything and I mean everything will be better. From then until May I am just writing and revising, writing and revising, and writing and revising. But three weeks seems so damned far away.
May can't come fast enough.