Stress Breakdown

6th week of Grad School has started!!! AHHHHH!!!!

So I know I haven't posted in a while, but see the title and you will see that stress has occurred. Soooooo many things to do; work , school, clinic!!! School I have lots of projects and reading. Confession 1: I've given up on doing all the reading. Its just too hard to do all the reading when I can be working on my papers, quizzes, and lesson plans. Clinic I have 3 group sessions for ACE (aphasia clinic), I have my diagnostics team most Tuesdays, and one other client twice a week. Work I keep sending emails, forwarding emails, and grading things. So I guess the undergrads that I was grading for, some didn't exactly like my grading lol. Too bad for them.  For work I also get to give tours. The same day as the Van Riper lectures, I also get to give a tour....UGH!

So last Thursday night, I had my first breakdown of the semester. It started when I was talking about school and the stress with a classmate, and I just started crying. It was horrible. I sadly cried for over an hour, and the only thing that helped me get through it was my awesome friend L, who seems to always have breakdowns around the same time as me, no matter the distance.

So the good things in my life right now are: I get to get away and see my family for Halloween weekends at the campground, my diagnostics team was canceled for tomorrow, and I may have met someone. Well I did meet someone, but I don't know if it will turn into anything. We met on a online dating site (ChristianMingle) and we chatted for a while before we finally met 2 weeks ago. We met at ArtPrize in GR and I took my friend H, because you never know when you meet someone online. Since then we have texted everyday...except for today. Its weird not texting him, but I don't want to seem clingy, and I'm really hoping he isn't feeling the same way. But he seems to be everything I'm looking for. He says the right things, and he pays attention to what I say. It has been a while since I have had attention like this. I have missed it, but I think there could be something there, if we weren't so far apart. We live an hour apart, which means we haven't seen each other since our first meeting, and I really want to go on a "date" to see if we have a true connection. I just don't know if I should suggest it, or he should?

Well that is it for tonight. I have to continue ignoring some of my homework.