Tuesday April 8, 2014

Yesterday was a really rough day for me.  I was really stressed out and extremely tired. 

I have been having trouble managing my time.  I was finding that I had too much on my plate and therefore I felt as though I couldn’t do things to the fullest.  Either I had to skimp on dance or school or my friends or my project.  And so faced with the decision I would usually decide that dance and my project were the most important and friends and school would be pushed to the backburner.  Of course this added a lot of stress to my life, since the question at the back of my mind at all times was “When am I going to get everything done?”  Add on top of that 40-minute Revisit Day blocks (where I felt like I couldn’t get anything done), freezing cold rain, and a really bad cold and you are left with a very frazzled emotional Lily.  By the end of the day I was honestly crashing and burning.  I actually seriously considered calling up Spencer and begging him for Red Bull.

Instead, I did something much more productive, which was to cry, watch Frozen with my dorm, and talk to my boyfriend about how I will manage my time from now on(neither of us are very good at it, but he is very logical and plan orientated, where I am definitely NOT).  So, I have made goals for my project each day for the rest of the week.  I am going to try to complete these goals, then be sure to distribute the rest of my time where I need it for my other commitments, rather than blowing other things off for my project.  Hopefully then, I will stay on track for my project without overwhelming or overworking myself.

On a totally positive note, Captain Bill and I put out my two oyster bags.  We sorted out 500 oysters and separated them into two bags (250 each).  It is recommended that you have about 200 in each bag, but since they are still small, I decided 250 would be fine.  I think my favorite part of my project is that it has a lot of variety, since the business side is theoretical and handling the oysters is so physical.  I think that being outside and being cold and having to sort through the oysters by hand offers me a very real and tangible way of realizing my project.  Which was especially important yesterday when I was having trouble.