The Spring Break

Hey Kids,

I'm sure some of you are sporting nice tans and a relaxed demeanor now after this past week's spring break. Spring Break is a time to relax, take a breather, maybe do some spring cleaning (could be your home, your Facebook friends lists or even your contacts list in your phone..lol) and get rejuvenated so that you can finish out the spring season strong.  In order to welcome the summer with open arms instead of wanting to run from it and hide because your so exhausted.  Well I believe I took relaxing during spring break to the next level.  I mean I really did absolutely NOTHING!  I laid around, slept, ate, watched TV, used the bathroom, slept, ate, watched TV, etc.  Not necessarily in that order.  Now I know a few of you are probably calling me a lazy ass (believe me I was calling myself that as well).  But I think I might of needed that.  I mean my line of work is very tough mentally because it can be so draining when you're only hired to do one job but you end up having to do 100 different ones (and not with a salary increase I might add).  And on top of that I'm trying to meet the requirements needed to graduate as I am a doctoral candidate.  So being stressed is something that I am very much familiar with.  I haven't really discussed with anyone that I've done NOTHING during spring break.  Despite having plans to finally go to the King Tut exhibit at the HMoMA (Houston Museum of Modern Art), reading two books (one is fantasy the other is self-help), planning to hang out with some new and old friends, and the main thing was doing a lot of catch up work on my dissertation and some research essays I'm writing and working on with a professor on campus.

I did none of that.  I didn't even hook up with anyone or felt the need to hook up with myself during the break...there was no desire, motivation or want to do anything other then stay in my apartment and be a recluse.  As I'm writing this I see that this may mean that my depression and anxiety issues have come back (more on that later).  If that's the case I definitely need to make an appointment with my Doctor ASAP before it gets worse (I DO NOT want a repeat of 2007-2008).

So with this post I hope that those of you on spring break enjoyed yourselves.  I hope that you did everything that you planned to do.  I hope that you made sure that you didn't sit up in your homes doing nothing.  And I definitely hope that those of you who needed it got your rocks off!

So I've gotta ask, was I a lazy ass over the break or was it ok to do nothing for once?