Interesting signs of lower stress
May. 3rd, 2020 08:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
flexagon1) Despite having a boss I'd sometimes like to punch in the face (and who kept me up late on Thursday working on last-minute bullshit), and having just finished up spring calibration a few weeks ago, and losing half my org, etc... I don't really find myself desperate for the 3 weeks off I've taken for the last three summers. I haven't taken any days off since beginning to work from home. That doesn't make sense so I am going to take some time this week (scanning... two half-days?) and find more time further in the future too, but in the meantime it's just bizarre that I'm not dying for a longer break after how rough it's been. But usually the burnout is commensurate with feeling desperate for more time at home, isn't it...? And for the first time in my adult life, I am getting enough time at home.
This is fascinating and potentially huge, like "could change my career / retirement plan" huge.
2) My cycle. The length has been bouncing around between 24 and 27 days for a while now, which I can easily confirm because when I get my period I put an entry on my Health calendar that says something like "drip (actual, 25 days)" along with another one for the future that says "drip (predicted)". Anyway, I last got my period on April 4, making this my first full cycle at home; yesterday would have been 28 days and it's not here yet. I haven't had a 28-day cycle since Dec 2018, or a longer one since June 2017.
Both these things are obviously during a time when external factors are very stressful indeed, making them doubly of interest. I wouldn't have predicted either one. But here we are.
This is fascinating and potentially huge, like "could change my career / retirement plan" huge.
2) My cycle. The length has been bouncing around between 24 and 27 days for a while now, which I can easily confirm because when I get my period I put an entry on my Health calendar that says something like "drip (actual, 25 days)" along with another one for the future that says "drip (predicted)". Anyway, I last got my period on April 4, making this my first full cycle at home; yesterday would have been 28 days and it's not here yet. I haven't had a 28-day cycle since Dec 2018, or a longer one since June 2017.
Both these things are obviously during a time when external factors are very stressful indeed, making them doubly of interest. I wouldn't have predicted either one. But here we are.
