Balance and Persistance

I just realized how important it is balance my PhD adventure. I hurts to observe a group for an hour and a half, then follow with four sessions back to back. By 7:45pm my brain was shutting down, my body was numb, and my counseling skills went down with it.

Without a doubt last Tuesday was the hardest day of my first year in this program.By the weekend Vanessa was able to see the impact of that week on my psyche, and everything else. She asked, "is it going to be like this for ever?". Tough question, specially when you don't know the answer, the only thing I had was hope. Hope that it would not be like this, that last week was a fluke of nature and that everything was going to be OK.

Well it got better this week. I am glad I did not give up (just being sarcastic).

I'm back, at least for a little while (persistence is good, but balanced).