Ran outside today, from ANU union, past the dish and the colleges and to the boathouse where you can hire things and back. Feet hurt a little, and had to contend with the fluff, but it was lovely to get out. The hill was a killer!
Needed it, after the presentation yesterday, and various other things. The presentation went fine, not sure how I’ll be marked, but it will come through soon enough. Somehow I got a HD on the 15% response that I spent no time on. I can never gauge these things!
Still some obstacles ahead… like trying to remember the oven has died and not buying the fixings for a pizza :\ oops failed on that one.
I say again, bring on December.
Freak :: on a leash. Feeling like I have no release.
The next 5-6 weeks are going to be a mess of essays, presentations and reports for Uni, all while trying to continue with most of the rest of life… So I may be a little absent in that time.
(Dreaming of Summer Holidays in Newcastle)
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The organisation of my trip to Germany is taking shape, finally. We have flights to and from Vienna, I have train tickets for once we’re back in Frankfurt to Cologne, Hamburg and Berlin, and have started sorting out / looking at accommodation.
Getting there.
Still need to get back to Frankfurt from Berlin, but that will be with Rish, so we need to organise that one together. And harass friends about Vienna :p
I’ve enrolled in a “Stress Containment” course, which is running over the Thursday nights in May, through the Women’s Information and Referral Centre. I can tell that I’m not exactly managing my stress well at the moment, and I’m hoping that it will give me strategies to improve my well being, and general awesomeness. To learn to breathe. We were doing a mindfulness exercise, and it’s amazing how scattered my brain can be!
I have a lot to do over the next few weeks (in 3 weeks I’ll be on the plane to Germany!)… There’s one more essay to submit on the 14th, a conference in Melbourne from the 16th – 19th, I fly back to Canberra on the 20th… I have this course I’m doing. And life. And then work, to make sure I have everything in order in case someone calls wanting something NOW. *heh* So I may be absent. But, I still love you!
I’m off to cook up a pot of bolognese sauce… lamb mince, fresh basil, and a little red wine, among others… noms.
You can tell when people have hit that point where they tip from “stretched” in their work – the busy, adrenalin-inducing pace that we tend to work well in – to “stressed”. Instead of the “stretched” 20-30 minute lunch breaks, they either become non-existent, or people will sit in the lunch room for the full hour, staring blankly at the gossip magazines, but not chattering about what Britney’s doing now.
They will probably start to take more sick days, after pushing through the sniffles for a week, it then hits and they’re off for a week or more at a time.
The counseling sessions in the car park also begin. De-briefing, letting go of all that baggage before going home, you’ll find 2 or 3 staff members up in the carpark ten of fifteen minutes after they left the building. Still talking clients, off-loading it all before concentrating (hopefully) for their drive home.
I found my OTs up there today, and joined them, giving them one more person to share it with, to empathise, to give an example of my own, not to be a part of it, but to acknowledge that, yes, it’s a general feeling right at this stage, it’s not just you, or your profession, or just our team. It’s across the board.
There is a lot of change about to happen, with all the “big decisions” coming down on August 10. We may need more than a carpark debrief then.
During my supervision today, we were talking about not overloading at work, as in actually having the time to do anything (apparently my stats were down last month, which is a tad irritating given I felt like I was working so hard! Hopefully the couple of sick days weren’t taken into account and that might help me…)
But then we started talking about ballancing home stress and work stress. Now I know that there’s a ballance, and there’s only so much of either I can function with… and when there’s stress in both areas, I don’t function so well. I’ve had it happen before with home stress hitting a point where things were starting to affect me more than usual at work… but when i came out the other end of that, everything settled down once more.
I feel a bit like I’m in a patch like that lately… it probably doesn’t help that I’ve had this cold, and the cold probably hasn’t been helped by any extra stressors in my life.
Nor does it probably help that I’m not very good about talking about my own issues with people (I’m much better at reflecting back to them and making them do the talking), or that some of th things, even if I could talk about them, they’re not really work-topics… and I’m not at all close to anyone at work…
Yes, I am rambling, but it tends to help me sort things out, even if the outside world can’t quite see how I got to that point.
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