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Dealing with stress

Nov 12, 2008
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I need to figure out a better way to deal with stress. The following tactics are failing:

1. Drinking coffee. Why would I think this would help?

2. Hot yoga: You can only do this so often, if I tried to raise the office temperature to 100 degrees and started stretching around here I'm pretty sure I would get fired.

3. Tapping my pencil while thinking of other jobs I could get if I get fired. Now that the car industry is taking a downturn I have had to cross "General Motors test driver" off of this list. Which is too bad. Seeing as how I can totally drive, this is the job on my list that I am most qualified for.

4. One of my coworkers likes to log on to cuteoverload.com when she's feeling this way. Sometimes she sends me links to make me feel better and then I get worried that I'm basically looking at animal porn to make myself feel better. What if one day I can't feel better without it.

5. Writing on my blog: Sometimes helps, but more a diversion tactic than anything else.

6. Biting my lips. Satisfying in the moment but ultimately does not help and looks bad which makes me look less cute and therefore, I believe, makes me much more fireable.

Bikram, bugs and moderation

Sep 25, 2008
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So I broke down and bought a pair of yoga shorts for my bikram class, I figure I go enough that I can justify the $30, and they really do make it much easier to do some of the standing poses becuase the fabric doesn't bunch up or get snag anywhere like the looser shorts do...

I really have not gotten any writing done this week, things have just been way to busy, what with going out every night, yoga and my war with my bugs. But I have gotten to spend time with friends, which has been great. And more of that tonight! Although I am toying with the idea (obviously not starting tonight) of giving up booze for a week. It's not like I drink all that much, but I am trying to lose about 5-10 pounds so the extra intake there doesn't help, and it really fucks with my bikram yoga if I even have one glass of wine at night and then wake up and go to yoga. I can drink lots of water and end up being fine in class, I'm just sort of curious what my body would feel like without it at all. I have this idea that it has to be all or nothing, like I have to totally give up alcohol to really feel the effects, or I have to go to yoga everyday, or write every day to really be doing something right. I think I have a hard time with the wanting these things to be bigger in my life but also making time for all of them.

It's been a kind of stressful day at work, something at work really needs to come through tomorrow morning, I think it will, but... I hate that feeling. The person I'm dealing with is in London, which also sucks because you basically can't get any answers after 1pm...