I'm not sure why it is, but sending you support to get 'er done!

Eat a Banana...and open those papers

... You don't know how hard it is on this side of the desk with papers due to get my grades. I studied all my notes, reviewed chapters too and thought of you as someone that would have to read them...took a deep breath and jumped in. on those papers... when all I wanted to do was curl up and wait until today, for my daughter.

Really, hugs of support. Muji, I wish my professor in PP was like you.
J.

Sending support for you to get through. I k ow that mo ky mind very well. Sometimes if you can just rest a little it helps. Maybe lay down for twenty to thirty min. Set and alarm if you might sleep the whole time away but it can relax the monkey mind I find. Hope it goes well my friend. Sending a little prayer your ways and just like kisses from little one you can put it your pocket and know I'm there.

Take care of the little things and the big things are already tended. ~Texas Pig Farmer

Little things count, muji.

The more I think on it, the less I think I believe I will ever understand why, and the more I believe "Why?" is the mostest favoritest bit of mischief my own "monkey mind" has found for keeping me from my goals. Right at the Finish Line is where the Why's get the loudest.

Raucous cheers for that last big push of the semester, muji. If push comes to shove, just give everybody an "A." Guarantee of good teacher reviews?

hey there hang in MUJ

Wow, that was weird. I can usually push through the mental static, fatigue, whatever, and focus to get the job done. I kind of take it for granted. Not so much today. Against all of my past practices, I went to be with the job undone, all of those papers crying to be graded like unfed babies. But I did manage to get to sleep, against how in the past I would have pushed myself to do an all nighter.

I did wake up this morning way ahead of my alarm clock, so I wouldn't say I wasn't anxious. But I was more well rested. I made myself have a breakfast before going back to grading, too. Then I went at it, and got the job done without a hitch. Actually, no, correction: there was one hitch. Somehow I locked up the touch pad on the computer I was using and spent 30 minutes in frustrated mode. It was one of those work interruptions trying to figure out how I ever did that in the first place, and how to get it working again.

But now it's done, and I did my work this time without an all nighter and all of that drama. It was scary to stop, to vent here online, and then to take your support and do the logical grown up thing and get some rest before trying again. The grown up thing! I must be making progress in dealing with PTSD and anxiety. Thanks again, my DS PTSD friends.

Given all circumstances? Ugh and ugh and ugh.... Hope you get through it okay, and know we're rooting for you! Go Muji! Go Muji! Go Muji!

Glad you got through it Muji. Hope you can get some R and R now. I think that is classic PTSD, sometimes the breaks come from apparently no where. I get that too, weird but very normal for me.

Grown ups are logical? You need to introduce me to your circle of grown-ups. The grown-ups in my circle seem to lose their logic around the time the first hormones hit.

Putting sarcasm back in its cage now. . . Back, back, you vicious beast!

Sounds to me you used the HALT approach. Two of the four were in play. Once you took care of the "Tired" and "Hungry" the rest fell in place. Except for the techno-glitch. . . Progress over perfection?

So, or no, you got the job done. Congratulations. May the rest of the end-of-semester-loose-ends tie up as neatly.

Congrats on the way you handled that! Now you are FREEEEE!!!! Until next semester. I remember that great feeling from my student days : )

muji. I am late to this thread, but "Way to go"..ahhh time to relax! Hugs

Thanks for celebrating, cheese. I told Leo that I got all the grading done. Then I collapsed on my couch and slept the sleep of the righteous. Hours. I got up and ate a bite, and then slept again. I was tuckered.

But: job done. Whew!

Hope you're well.