Stressing about stress in advance of stress because Anxiety.

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I did no writing yesterday. I meant to write. I had good intentions, but the night just got away from me and I was terribly exhausted. This morning when I woke up, I was concerned that I’d overslept. I like when it’s light when I have to get up, but it’s also disconcerting at the moment since the change in Daylight Saving Time. I love getting that hour back and I’m better at going to bed a little earlier and waking up on time--at least for a week or so after the shift. Once my body is acclimated again, it’s back to normal-Kate staying up until stupid hours of the night reading terrible romance novels and watching Hallmark movies. It wouldn’t be so bad if I dedicated more of my conscious, aware hours to focused writing. At least then I could say I’d done something productive. I’m both excited about starting school in January and also not looking forward to my decreased time for writing and reading. Reading especially. Writing is an important habit for me, but reading is my addiction. Plus, I’ll still be writing papers and the Teen Blog for work. It’s not like I won’t have writing in my life at all. I still intend to try for a story per month though with a much lower word count goal than the one we set for this year. This year has been a pretty good challenge, and I have two more months to manage before I can say I completed it. I think I can make it though. I really want to make it. I like meeting goals.

The other thing I’ve been thinking about with school on the horizon is exercising. I don’t know if I’ve missed exercising the last few weeks, but I had gotten to enjoy going a few days a week--especially when I could listen to audiobooks while I worked out. My job is full time and then my school work is going to be another 10-20 hours a week I know the max number of classes per semester is three, but I was originally thinking I was only going to take two. Still, that’s not going to be “nothing.” And I don’t want to totally miss out on reading, tv, and fun. How I’m going to cram it all in, I can’t begin to know.

To be continued at some point, I’m sure.