ten thousand talkers whose tongues were all broken ([info]liplock) wrote,
@ 2008-01-19 16:08:00
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I am taking 20 credits! I am busy! There is no way I will ever finish all of my readings! I am in a Spanish class one term above where I should be! This is finally sinking in!


But I'm alright. When I get stressed and overwhelmed, there are a few things I do.

A) Call my mom.
B) Organize my shit.
C) Make/eat delicious food.

I am to the delicious food part of my day. I just whipped up some fried rice, which hits the spot. Jazz is playing, candles are lit, and I'm about to get my academic on.


Your turn!
When you get stressed and/or overwhelmed, what do you do, who do you call, what do you listen to, what do you eat?

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[info]vinyl_sunshine
2008-01-20 12:22 am UTC (link)
Dear Jess,

I too am taking 20 credits, which works out oddly to 22hours of class a week. My reading list is on my blog, and all of my classes are either English or Journalism, so either way a lot of writing or a lot of reading, probably both.
(Also, 16 hour a week job, and the mandatory 8 hours of sleep/day,) which leaves 72 hours a week for school work. That works out to roughly 10 hours per day, which doesn't seem right because I feel like I never have enough time to do anything, and 10 hours a day should be plenty.

Those are the top three things I do when I am stressed out too.

I love you, I am glad that we are both doing this school thing.

Goodluck with the stress.

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[info]liplock
2008-01-20 08:51 pm UTC (link)
There is never enough time.
Do you like your classes? Where are you working?
We be crazy, lady! But we're probably always gonna be.
Love you, kar.

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[info]manufacturing
2008-01-20 02:32 am UTC (link)
i'm taking twelve credits, skipping out on work early, and doing as little work as possible. yesterday when i tried to get up to go to my favorite class of the week, i had a panic attack, so i went back to bed and called in sick to work.

this is what i do when i get stressed/overwhelmed: i try to write, also find some delicious food to eat, take some anti-anxiety medication and then re-focus. i don't call anyone because i'm really bad at asking for support, but i do try to call my cat over and squeeze her until she can't take it anymore.

i also used to go shopping, but now that all the thrift stores are too far by bicycle, i don't. i got that one from my mom.

you can do it, jessica jackson, i know you can.

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[info]your_superqueen
2008-01-20 10:32 pm UTC (link)
a) put on some funk soul & hit the dishes/clean the kitchen
b) call my mother & yap about nonsense
c) deep banana blackout/james brown
d) delicious stir fry, home made pasta sauce, or old fashioned cup o noodles

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[info]liplock
2008-01-27 11:36 am UTC (link)
what kind of pasta sauce?
dishwashing: it's cheaper than therapy.

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[info]boundariezzz
2008-01-23 07:23 am UTC (link)
--make lists, journal, make piles out of things, e-mail or write letters, go to radio8ball and ask my stresses away. http://www.radio8ball.com

--my father.

--shuffle! I like the idea that whatever comes on next is the song I need to hear at that moment.

-- cereal and tea.

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[info]liplock
2008-01-27 11:35 am UTC (link)
I second the cereal and tea bit.
List-making equals my sanity.
I think it's hereditary.
=]
p.s. Eden Sky, who is on the radio8ball.com website/radio program, is my neighbor and I taught her son in Pre-school. Cue: "fucking hippies." It's okay. You can say it.

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