I’m not sure that I handle stress all that well.  I’ve noticed that I tend to work quickly and effectively when my stress levels are really high.  However I tend to be really grumpy and that usually affects friendships and loved ones. (sorry, Dj!)

After class, a friend and I were venting our last week of school anxiety.  My personal schedule this includes six papers, a fundraiser (helping and attending), and two plays, all on top of my usual life.  Since this is the last week of school every student feels like they have an obscene amount of work due- and each and every student is correct.  However, as my friend and I were talking I realized that a disproportionate amount of our stress tied directly to various friends that we had to work with on group assignments.  We both felt varying degrees of frustration/anger/annoyance/shock at people that I know we like very much.  The funny thing is that just moments earlier this same friend and I had been sitting next to each other in class and I kept finding myself feeling borderline annoyances.  Sadly the annoyances were around things like her chair being too close.  Sometimes a girl just needs some personal space, right? Right?  No one?

Anyhow, it makes me all feel like I can’t wait until this week is over and everyone can go back to being just friends again.

To all my friends that I have to work with this week in some form (school, party planning, etc) let’s try doubly hard to be patient and loving to each other.  And I’m going to ask in advance for a bit of grace because I am definitely a grumpy bear this week!