Spring Fever

Everything is just exahusting right now. My 22 students who talk nonstop. Graduate school. Grading papers. Cleaning. Cooking. Perhaps if I vent and get it out there, I'll miraculously feel better. Stress is kicking my ass. I don't manage it well, either. I don't sleep, and then I get sick. Then I feel even worse than I did when I was just stressed. Take right now for example: I'm going on very little sleep, haven't eaten, can barely swallow because my glands are so swollen, and I'm pretty sure I have some weird infection in my gums from the latest dentist trauma. So I'll most likely end up at the doctor this week, begging him for steroid shots so I won't spend next week sick, too. It's an endless cycle. I'm clearly not doing something right. The solution? SPRING BREAK! I am so fortunate to have a fabulous trip with my mom coming up. I don't know if I've ever needed an escape so badly. As I've been doing one assignment after another for graduate school, I am forcing myself to think about what I'm going to pack. I know that this week ahead is going to be brutal. Why Open House is on the Thursday before Spring Break is beyond me. But all the school stuff aside, I'm going to be on the beach in less than a week....almost 15 pounds lighter than I was on January 1!!!

Life is good. God is good.