I’m going to be honest here, it’s been a rough ride for the last month or so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I feel like I’ve been in one of those lovely life stages where everything is finding uniquely challenging ways to go wrong. It starts with a nasty bout of Covid that ran its course through my family in October. I had a lot of issues with fatigue and brain fog, in addition to a fever that didn’t want to let me out of its clutches. Unfortunately, this coincided with a stretch of time where I needed to be at my most focused in class. I distinctly remember telling my capstone project mates that my brain felt like soup during one of our planning meetings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Fortunately, sickness doesn’t last forever, so after a couple of weeks I crawled out of my blanket nest and got back to business. I managed to keep up and meet the bare minimum while I was sick, but it left me a whole pile of advanced tasks to do once I felt better. I hit the ground running, only to be derailed by life at the worst time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
My extended family does a yearly women’s retreat around the beginning of November. I haven’t missed a single one since I was eligible to attend the adults-only Freedom Weekend, so I knew that I would have to get ahead in order to take the time off for relaxation. The final week of October was a mad rush to get all of my work done, and I was making reasonable progress. Unfortunately for me, my partner had a very scary medical emergency in the middle of the night on the 31st. Everything turned out okay, but I could have lived without the 4 AM ER visit. When everything settled back down, I threw myself back into work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It was a frenzy of activity, and I think my desk was as full of post-it notes and research papers and assignment specifications as it’s ever been. I think I looked a little wide-eyed and wild whenever anyone happened to glance through the doorway of my office. But I got there, and I finished what I needed to get done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I’d love to say that my early November has been less chaotic, but I’m not sure that’s true. So far this month has included an extended family gathering (wonderful and stressful), a presidential election (extremely stressful, not so wonderful), and my anniversary (purely delightful). <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Life has been a lot recently, but I’m optimistic that things might calm down soon. And if nothing else, there’s only four weeks left of the fall term. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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