When I was in college, specifically, senior year, everyone I was friends with seemed to think they were so very stressed. Looking back on that time, I seem to remember being irritated that everyone said that, and now I know what stress is and we were STUPID. I don’t care that many of my friends were honor student brainiacs (I hung out with them but I wasn’t an honor student). We were STUPID. When the stress in our lives was all about whether or not to go to free taco night on Wednesdays or stay in and drink, well, that’s not really stress, is it?
What I consider stress now:
- I’ve totally changed my mind about going back to grad school. I really think I might and considering I’ve had nearly a whole week of motivation while thinking about grad school, I should probably go with it. Who knows when I’ll feel like this again. The problem is I won’t be able to officially start until January 2007. The other problem? Being accepted into the program.
- I finished my portion of our group project and I’ve spent lots of time trying to get the two people in the group we’ve been calling “blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things” to actually do their work only to find out they are worse than lame so I’ve been spending time editing and re-writing their portions. Because, really, I have nothing better to do with my time.
- I’ve watched the planets align and can now officially start working as an e-learning wonk. I have twenty-four gazillion things to learn, but for the last five or six years what I’ve really wanted to do was learn how to design courses for online deployment and now I’m finally going to spend part of my work day learning how to and actually doing that. The other part of my work day will be spent amazing my co-workers with all the crazy mad computing skillz and figuring out what we’re going to do for lunch. Believe me, the lunch decision takes time, energy and serious effort.