almost weekend--yay!
It was a short week because of Labory Day, but I still feel like I had a full, solid week. That's how busy I've been for the past couple of days. I've been having 10+ hour work days. Classes started, our research project is picking up some speed, still in the process of setting up our lab, tons of babysitting, and helping my prof with her classes. When my externship starts on the 19th, my schedule will be absolutely crazy. Will I ever get some time to eat and sleep? Who knows! It's kinda scary thinking about how crazy this semester will be but it's also exciting. I like this feeling of being productive! It's much better than sitting in my room, doing absolutely nothing other than breathing.
Anyhow, I got a bookkeeping job at this small photo studio in Midtown. It's an easy job that takes up only a few hours per month. Someone I know has this job, but she will be back in Japan for a few months. So, she wants me to take over her position while she's gone. Also, there's some possibility that she'll be going back to Japan permanently in the near future. If that happens, I will taking over the job completely. It pays better than babysitting job and it's exciting to learn something new. I'm learning how to use QuickBook.
Also, my prof asked me to give a guest lecture in the undergraduate course that she's teaching. The class is about culture and mental health (i think), and I will be giving a lecture about Asian American mental health for 1 hour and 40min. This is my area of speciality, and I'm excited about this opportunity. I've never gave a lecture before...but I will see how that goes. It will be in the mid-November, and I will definitely write about it on my blog :-)
Oh, yeah, I have to post this--I was talking to my prof today, and she asked me how i'm feeling (b/c i've been sick since last weekend). Because I get sick a lot, she suspects that I have neurasthenia--it is basically a somatization of stress, or expression of stress/anxiety through physical discomfort. Do I have neurasthenia??? i dunno. It's kinda funny because neurasthenia was her dissertation topic. So, I told her that she can use me as her subject if she wants. :-p
Anyway, I do get sick a lot. When I told my prof that I'm sick, she said, "You need to take very good care of yourself!" Starting from last Friday, I've been having fever, sore throat, nausea, no appetite, headache, fatigue, etc. I was in bed for 3 days, unable to eat at all. Now I feel fine but I still have stuffy nose and sore throat...and no appetite. I'm finding out that I can function OK with one meal per day--that's all I can eat for the past few days.
Anyhow, I got a bookkeeping job at this small photo studio in Midtown. It's an easy job that takes up only a few hours per month. Someone I know has this job, but she will be back in Japan for a few months. So, she wants me to take over her position while she's gone. Also, there's some possibility that she'll be going back to Japan permanently in the near future. If that happens, I will taking over the job completely. It pays better than babysitting job and it's exciting to learn something new. I'm learning how to use QuickBook.
Also, my prof asked me to give a guest lecture in the undergraduate course that she's teaching. The class is about culture and mental health (i think), and I will be giving a lecture about Asian American mental health for 1 hour and 40min. This is my area of speciality, and I'm excited about this opportunity. I've never gave a lecture before...but I will see how that goes. It will be in the mid-November, and I will definitely write about it on my blog :-)
Oh, yeah, I have to post this--I was talking to my prof today, and she asked me how i'm feeling (b/c i've been sick since last weekend). Because I get sick a lot, she suspects that I have neurasthenia--it is basically a somatization of stress, or expression of stress/anxiety through physical discomfort. Do I have neurasthenia??? i dunno. It's kinda funny because neurasthenia was her dissertation topic. So, I told her that she can use me as her subject if she wants. :-p
Anyway, I do get sick a lot. When I told my prof that I'm sick, she said, "You need to take very good care of yourself!" Starting from last Friday, I've been having fever, sore throat, nausea, no appetite, headache, fatigue, etc. I was in bed for 3 days, unable to eat at all. Now I feel fine but I still have stuffy nose and sore throat...and no appetite. I'm finding out that I can function OK with one meal per day--that's all I can eat for the past few days.
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