you’ve gotta stat romanticizing your life. you gotta start believing that your morning commute is cute and fun, that every cup of coffee is the best you’ve ever had, that even the smallest and most mundane things are exciting and new. you have to, because that’s when you start truly living. that’s when you look forward to every day.
bookshelves are expensive but I see these cement blocks everywhere. time to make some shelves
I’ve been feeling under the weather for a few days now, but been powering through with the aod of DayQuil and lots of tea and water. I haven’t been able to run because I’ve felt so weak and drained. I woke up an hour ago (courtesy of the amazing hubs who woke up to wake me up) and have spent until now trying to decide if I feel sick enough to call in sick.
What decided it for me is that I am sick enough to get others sick. That means I am sick enough to stay home. Still, I had a really tough time deciding to not push through.
I think this is a problem a lot of people have: we are so used to powering through obstacles that sometimes we treat our health like just another thing to overcome instead of taking care of our bodies. Maybe it’s a product of our society which glorifies this sort of “sucking it up,” but I realized this morning how bad it is. If I had taken yesterday off, I’d probably be on the way to recovery today, but I didn’t think I felt awful *enough* yesterdqy. And that’s the kind of thinking I do, that I know I need to change.
lunch today
guys, watch Ready Player One
golden milk after a 2.6 mile run at 9pm
back to studying immunology
water at work, in the most awesome cup
new favorite grad school hack?
Thank you @neu-run for this awesome tip! (which i have just put to use)
@musingsoflulu ‘s posts are amazing and she is a brilliant person, and I think I’m going to jump on the wagon too :)
Today was semi-productive, but I honestly didn’t get near as much done as I wanted. My exam from yesterday was postponed to tomorrow (!) and I spent around 2 hours revising more for it because I really really want to get as close to a perfect score as I can, because I honestly love immunology. And I got through about an hour and a half of some virology work, but I didn’t touch any of my other classes.
I didn’t get my thesis up to snuff, so I’m actually submitting over summer even though I’m walking in May. I feel pretty down about it, but I had a wonderful call from my parents around 9pm, and they said that they’re really proud of me and not to stress about the thesis and that just made my whole day so much better.
Spent two hours spring cleaning with the hubby and my goodness but we really really NEED to do laundry. Got about 4 bags of laundry (separated by colors and whites and darks and all of course), but holy crap. We have a literal bag of just socks. Clearly, laundry is a priority this weekend.
And then I did taxes and watched a movie with the husband. “The Titan” on Netflix is laughably horrible and absolutely ridiculous. None of that would happen in the real world and no amount of suspension of disbelief could get you through that film. BUT, we had a really fun hour and a half nitpicking and critiquing the film and it was lots of fun and laughs. :)
Drinking tea and getting through the last 10 slides for my immunology exam. I do this thing where I memorize the lectures and quiz myself by looking at slide titles and writing out my notes from memory and I have only the last few to go :) I’m trying my best to graduate as one of the top students from my program, so hopefully it goes well.
DIdn’t run today. I had plenty of time and energy and the conditions were perfect (read: drizzling and chilly with a bit of wind), but I just wasn’t feeling it. I even got dressed for my run, started, and then just quit about a quarter of a mile in. I just REALLY did not want to run? Which is so weird because I love my runs and this has never happened before?
water at work, in the most awesome cup
rachaeldee
and the lights go out ‘til the sun comes up,
we are not alone.
you are the one thing that i know.
