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By Saturday the twelfth I will have completed 90% of my work and can hopefully stop feeling as though there's a meltdown imminent. In the meantime, though, Aria's five ways to briefly unwind from academic stress:
1. The tried-and-true scouring of the internet for entertaining things. Some current favourites: *Hark! A Vagrant; *Autocomplete Me; *Muppets Studio; *ADORABLE BBC Doctor Who Christmas indent; *A priest, a rabbi, and an ATA user walk into a bar ...; *New Moon parody that ships Edward/Jacob. I never pretended to have taste.
2. Hoarding little bottles of girly drinks and attempting to write porn. Caution: don't try this on week nights or your future self will hate you.
3. Watching comfort telly. See re: my previous statement about having no taste; my comfort telly ranges from "Anything with Paul Gross in, provided I don't have to hide behind my hands too often" to "Scenes from the High School Musicals" to "I think I need to watch a lieutenant colonel is being beaten for the twentieth time."
4. Going to the gym and biking or running until there's no room at all for worrying and cataloguing everything I still need to do, and the only thing left is if I can get my body to behave, I can get my mind to behave too. I run longer on loud Hugh Dillon music than I do with anything else, but YMMV.
5. Sleeping. Sleeping as much as I possibly can.
I notice that when I'm stressed out I tend to spend as much time alone as possible, but I think that's fairly healthy; this way I don't take out my stress on my friends, and I have the time to just settle into myself and center. What do you guys do to reduce stress? I'm very much in keeping-the-panic-at-bay mode and I'm always up for more calming and happy-making.
1. The tried-and-true scouring of the internet for entertaining things. Some current favourites: *Hark! A Vagrant; *Autocomplete Me; *Muppets Studio; *ADORABLE BBC Doctor Who Christmas indent; *A priest, a rabbi, and an ATA user walk into a bar ...; *New Moon parody that ships Edward/Jacob. I never pretended to have taste.
2. Hoarding little bottles of girly drinks and attempting to write porn. Caution: don't try this on week nights or your future self will hate you.
3. Watching comfort telly. See re: my previous statement about having no taste; my comfort telly ranges from "Anything with Paul Gross in, provided I don't have to hide behind my hands too often" to "Scenes from the High School Musicals" to "I think I need to watch a lieutenant colonel is being beaten for the twentieth time."
4. Going to the gym and biking or running until there's no room at all for worrying and cataloguing everything I still need to do, and the only thing left is if I can get my body to behave, I can get my mind to behave too. I run longer on loud Hugh Dillon music than I do with anything else, but YMMV.
5. Sleeping. Sleeping as much as I possibly can.
I notice that when I'm stressed out I tend to spend as much time alone as possible, but I think that's fairly healthy; this way I don't take out my stress on my friends, and I have the time to just settle into myself and center. What do you guys do to reduce stress? I'm very much in keeping-the-panic-at-bay mode and I'm always up for more calming and happy-making.