Come away with me and shoot the moon

I'm learning how to relax and not take things so seriously, including myself. The past 4 years (and even before that) I've been surrounded by overachievers. Not such a bad thing, except that stress tends to wear off on me. Especially during the last school year. I realized that extended stress manifests itself physically. For me it was in the form of tension headaches. Since receiving the diagnosis, I've become very aware of my stress. Now I'm working on reducing it instead of just taking 3 advil to make it go away. I'm learning Tai Chi. Not to be confused with Chai Tea. I actually missed the second session today, but I just practiced on my own. I love it! Seriously, I feel so much better. Now I need to learn to make time for it everyday.

One of my good, new friends told me that she is learning techniques for reading more quickly. I'm totally into that idea. I feel like I waste so much time when I read because I try to remember every detail. That's important when learning anatomy or chem, but not as much for my classes this semester. So, I'm trying to pick up the main points and move on. So far so good.

Being a TF for Epi is proving to be a lot more work than anticipated. I'm learning, though, that I am possibly a little bit too helpful with responding to e-mails. I need to learn to just answer the question and move on instead of typing up multiple ways of explaining the same thing. Hopefully taking a new job at the BU Athletic Business Office (where I worked freshman-junior year) won't be too much to handle. I think it will be good for me.

So excited to go home this weekend!!!