Fresh Inspiration

I joked around in my post yesterday about grad school eating my life this past semester, but right now that doesn't feel like much of an exaggeration. The last few months have been incredibly challenging. I have had to take in and organize massive amounts of information in a fully comprehensible manner. I was offered many opportunities to prove my mastery of different new skills and knowledge sets. These opportunities were often stretched me further than I sometimes thought I could be stretched, but I did it and I am incredibly proud of what I have accomplished in the last few months. However, I spent so much time reacting to different challenges that I did not take much time to work on my own personal projects like writing and designing and creating. This off-balance lifestyle left me feeling quite drained by the end of finals week, or as I affectionately termed it "hell week".

It's been about a week now since my last final. I've caught up on my sleep again and I have spent countless hours watching television and coming down from my cognitive adrenaline rush. The last day or so, I've been in the zone. I've written, I've created, I've played, I've cooked, and done so many other things that before felt like it took just too much energy away from studying.

This next semester, I hope, will be different. I have a plan in place to support this vision of a different semester. If all goes well, perhaps I won't have to wait another four or five months before I get a chance to breath like this again. But I suppose only time will tell.