Over doing it...

I've done too much the last two weeks. Now I'm paying the price. I'm crashed....

Crashed means tired, weak, and flu-like....I feel like I have the flu - body ache, sore throat, painful lymph nodes, dizziness...

Sometimes I think my learning curve is limited. After seven years you think I'd learn not to push it when I'm feeling OK. But so often when I'm feeling OK I tell myself, "I must be exaggerating how bad I feel most the time, I should just buck up, toughen up and get things done". "Everyone feels bad from time to time and they're not disabled by it".

But then I crash and feel like absolute hell and ask myself "Why did I push it?", "If I hadn't pushed it I may have not crashed.", "I can't believe how sick I am!"

....then I rest and rest, take it easy, start to feel better and begin the cycle again...

On the other hand, I guess I'm glad I got a lot done during my more energetic spurt. At least now I'm unpacked enough to function in the bedroom and the office.

On top of unpacking I also worked 11 hours on the Canadian Journal of Environmental Education (which is part of my graduate assistantship this term - being an editorial assistant). I'm looking forward to learning all about how a peer reviewed journal works. The bonus is that I believe I can do most of the work from home. I think this amount of work would have been fine had it not been for moving, unpacking, the pipe epic (see previous blog) etc. I've also done 2 hrs toward my independent study this week, which while pathetic, is more than the 0 hours I did the previous two weeks!

So that's this week's update...short and sweet.

As for the crash, I'm hoping I can pull out soon - it's been 2 1/2 days of feeling crap so far. Mentally and emotionally I don't think I can cope with a long crash right now.

I'm posting two photos here of the new abode.

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