Couch 113 - Sofa, So Good

I usually feel a little down at the end of the semester. Rushing, rushing to get things done and then a crash.

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Yeah. I know what you mean. Then you have to focus on the next after that. I hate feeling so doen, and I cam feel this at anytime. It just pops up and says "Hey! I'm here!"

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And it's not related to the grades...i assign grades, not the other way around...but it's just been your world for fifteen weeks and suddenly, poof! Hard not to feel a bit disconnected.

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Yeah. I guess. You just get so used to it. It's like my graduation. I have been in school 12 years, and now I'm being thrown into the cruel world without so much as manual.

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Here's a piece of where I feel calm.

I love turtles. There was a story I heard on the radio that I don't think I will ever forget. A lady was telling how she and her children were driving and saw a turtle in the middle of the road they were going down. She explained how they got out of the car and took the turtle across the road, in the direction that it was going. She also shared that if you ever see a turtle crossing the road and want to help it, don't take it back where it came from, take it across the road where it was headed.

That made such an impact in my thinking, in ways that I can't understand or explain.

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I feel ya on that! During my senior year of HS, I used to drive around with my friends, crying, because I just could not imagine life outside of the one I had. All new people?! An entire new school experience?! It was a hard adjustment for me, but once I joined a sport, college became fun, and i had the best 3 years (i didn't join until my sophomore year).

It makes perfect sense. How wonderful!

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I get at loose ends too when the semester ends. We had graduation last week. The graduating students will start studying for the bar in a couple of weeks, so I might see some of them if I go to my office.

I don't really have friends, but even so, I know these people. Out there, I don't. And that is extremely scary for someone like me.

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Forgot to finish that up....

If you take the turtle beach to the side of the road it came from.. It's just going to try again to get across the road it started on to begin with.

I can really relate that to life. Funny, how people can do that.
And I really liked the picture!

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I'm feeling really exhausted right now, guys. I think I'm going to sleep. Thanks for staying with me.

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Get some good rest!!

Know how you feel. Don't know the words to make it better. Just wanted you to know that I understand. ((( hug )))

So what I'm getting from this is...an idea for a new, totally original joke!

Q: Why did the turtle cross the road?
A: To get to the other side.



Thank yew, thank yew, I'll be here all week!

I used to get end of the semester blahs pretty badly. Before I took a break from academia, I had finally gotten to the point where I could take a week off after grades were in, do some retail therapy, catch up on pleasure reading, and then I would spend the rest of the time off working on an article/abstract/paper/chapter, whatever needed to be done.

I am hoping I have not forgotten how to do this after this fall semester. I found the end of the semester very discombobulating.

You just made me laugh and my heart smile!!

Yes!! The turtle crossed the road to get to the other side. If you see him in the middle
of the road, and want to help him, don't take him back where he came from. Take him where he/she was headed.

In my frame of mind. I believe those were words of wisdom that I heard that day!!

IMPORTANT part of that story.

If you take the turtle back where it was coming from... it's just going to try again to go where it was headed.

Long story short -

Just help the turtle get across the road. Don't take it back from where it came from.

So what do you do when you start to lose the anger that sustained you for so long. The only thing I have anger, it is mine.

No. 2 once explained to me that that kind of anger - the kind that it feels like you need it to live or go on - is actually about pain. So when the anger starts to go, it means you are ready to deal or have begun dealing with the pain.

I have no idea if she's right. It makes as much sense as anything else I've heard a therapist say. But if she is right, then losing it is a good sign.

I agree. Don't understand why but there is something there that is yelling truth in my mind.

I've always been so afraid of anger. It always meant that I wasn't in a place where I was safe, and I wasn't. I'm trying to learn that anger is ok with appropriate boundaries. That feels very alien to me but I want to entertain the idea.

I have one windows machine in my house and it drives me crazy with its insane windows updates.
The macs are so much easier to deal with.

I hate the way windows bypasses the option for manual updates and installs updates anyway

Would someone please explain why I wake up so stinking early on the weekends? This is earlier than I have to wake up on weekdays, which is a trial for me and the bane of my existence. I should be sleeping late!

SD, one of the many reasons I love my Mac, I just sit down and it works! The windows machines in my past were so slow, picky, and annoying with their constant glitches and fixes and failures. I'm glad I made the switch!

I know what you mean. I have had things this way for so long, when it is taken fom me, it feels to me as if there is a black hole burning inside my heart. Doesn't mean it is bad when it is gone. I think, if the things was bad, it means healing is on the way. Hugs, BunYip.

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I feel like I have a bit of a therapy hangover.. It was good session but hard. The main topic of conversation was sex. Trusted words that is exactly never head him same before lol. That was kind of a shock to me. But I was surprised that I wasn't as embarrassed as I thought I would be. We have talked about it in general, so I guess that helped.

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