“What is your spirit animal?”
Snail. For me, the snail is just everything I want to be: determined in spite of fragility, calm in the face of danger, focused, slow and steady. Snails have a strong homing instinct, and I can relate to that with my sense of home. As a metaphor for 1K and how I approach life, 100% snail. Fursona would be a fox though and for basically no reason other than liking the colour-scheme. And now you have to live with the cursed knowledge of that; blame WordPress. What’s this word ‘oversharing’, never heard of it before.
OK so I took the full length of the mitigation period to tweak my final essays, and I feel much better about submitting them now. They haven’t changed a ton, but I was able to sit at a computer not in as much pain, and go through the formatting, citations and bibliography with a fine tooth comb. That said, I need to try and avoid this ever happening again; if I’d been more careful about not getting ill, this wouldn’t have happened. So, some thoughts:
- – I need to be more bold about asking people to give my work a read-through when it’s still rough.
- – I need to do that, but with my professors, and early on.
- – I need to turn down requests not to do with work or uni when I need to focus.
- – I cannot do two major energy intensive events back to back on sequential days. Three Christmasses in a row killed me.
- – I maybe need to rethink if New Years parties are a good idea, as knocking my sleep was rough. However this one I think I need the mental health boost, but still noting it.
- – I need to recognise that with all the planning in the world – and I did a LOT for my degree – this stuff is gonna happen, and I need to not let it spiral my mental health.
- – I need to USE MY SUPPORT CIRCLE WHEN I AM SPIRALING THIS IS WHAT IT IS THERE FOR COME ON.
- – I need ice cream.
That last one is, maybe a bit out of place, but mental health needs must.
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