time and stress management
It’s really hard to stay on top of sleep and training while simultaneously looking for a new apartment, dealing with some challenging situations at work, building a rehearsal schedule, applying to graduate school, writing a grant report, overhauling my finances, and preparing to leave town for most of the month of November. Also, I’m STILL waiting on this contract for the spring, which is starting to nag at me. Specifically, what’s starting to nag is that I keep having to nag the person who’s supposed to be sending it my way and this conversation about whether I’m doing this show or not has been happening since May.
I had this little fantasy that I’d be more solidly back on track with my nutrition and body comp plans and actually see and feel a major difference by now, but maybe I was unrealistic.
Being self-critical about my body doesn’t really help me to achieve the progress and stability I desire in any of these areas.
At least I’m back to taking fish oil, vitamin D, and glucosamine/chondroitin/MSM. And the three spice sinus complex seems to be helping my sinus issues. I know that training helps with stress management, but when I have time to train I often feel like I should go home and try to make progress on one of the things looming overhead that require me to be seated in my home/in front of a computer.
Of course, that’s kind of a fallacy. More energy/effort spent doesn’t necessarily yield better results. This is a kind of Crossfit teaching. Remember when I trained so incessantly I broke? I just need to set aside time to get things done in the chronological order in which they need to be done (i.e. finish the grant report before you make yet another appointment to see an apartment).
I just really want to know where I’m going to live and whether I’m going out of town April-May. And then I want to go to California, hang out with my friends, write my grad school statement of purpose first draft there (hello! do that! good idea!), and enjoy myself. Maybe I’ll even find a place to lift or train there since I won’t be able to train during my residency in the Berkshires.
svaha!
or something.
