Warning!

Being a graduate student should come with a warning label, like a bad drug or something- "Warning! Stressed grad student ahead! Approach with caution! Student is constantly exhausted and any distraction is met with hostility. Avoid stupid phrases like "You're studying again?" or "You're reading a book its not a big deal"and my personal favorite "I know you're busy but I need help". Why is it that the very people you rely on for support are the very people who give the least? I'm so exhausted that I can barely think straight and it doesn't help that I'm barely hanging on by a thread in my classes. Let me tell ya its a thin line between passing and failing and that line gets thinner the closer you get to an 80. I read something yesterday that pretty much stated that the people who help others are the ones who need help themselves but won't ask for it. If nothing else my journal for my health promotion class is showing me that I need to take time out for me. So I've decided to declare next month "NO"vember. For the entire month I am going to exercise my right to just say "no". It you're not dying its going to have to wait. Its sad that someone who lives for helping others has to go to such extremes to get my sanity back but I need to or cranky grad student will turn into something mimicking that little girl in the exorcist. :) And on that happy note-"Happy Halloween!"