Emotional Rollercoaster

The last 2 hours has been an emotional rollercoaster.

When I waltzed into the Graham Center this morning, at 10:00.....an hour or two late...I was greeted by a tiny little colleague with open arms for a hug.  She and I don't normally hug...so this was a little weird, but refreshing.
Turns out the "crew" was building 6-Word-Memoirs to vent out their frustrations in a creative way.  This is why I love working with a writing center.  I think the creative outlet helps boost my innovation and imagination when it comes to research and my project.  Anyways, the quotes range from "Oops! And then there was silence..." to "There's no sense eating bad chocolate"....and mine: "Maybe didn't think this thing through."

That's exactly how I felt this morning....maybe I didn't think this through....double teaching, term papers, assignments, students....blah, blah, blah.  You saw the list on my last post, I don't need to make it over again.  Either way, I'm feeling a little swamped; more swamped than when I was in industry.  That, and my bank account is taking a nose dive.  Beer ain't cheap.

Just as I was starting to deal with the swamped-ness, I came across a statement in a paper I was reading about how bone deals with fracture mechanisms.  Yay, the magic of bone!  It's about vertebral bone, but it's still bone.  They looked at 3 different fracture mechanisms and then evaluated the mechanical properties and the integrity of what was left.  I found out that bone fractures a certain way so that when it fractures it can still be functional...to a certain degree of course, you get a total fracture, you're kind of screwed.  But as far as microfractures, bone is still able to keep going, to give it time to heal.  AWESOME!!  I tried explaining this to my mechanics class yesterday, they seemed interested, but I think it was only because I was so excited about it.

I was excited about it again.  Within an hour I went from, "Shit, I don't know if this is right for me.  I'm stressed, I'm swamped, I'm miserable, I'm ignoring my dog, my personal life is in the toilet and I'm having a bad hair day!"  to "This is amazing!  I LOVE BONE!!!"

From "Maybe didn't think this thing through" to "This just might be my calling."

This just might be my calling.    (blurry eyes)