To keep myself from going insane in times of extreme work, I have a good number of de-stress activities. When I am not pulling all-nighters and am eating regularly, I run a mile or two daily. I read some non-fiction fun before going to sleep. I watch television on Hulu, the guilt of procrastination alleviated by the reflection in my mirror that tells me my roommate is doing the same thing behind me.
I also find that taking some time to nurture something each day diverts me from the path to overworked-depression. Since we're not allowed to have pets in the dorms, and I had not handled the deaths of my last two fish-companions very well, I keep a potted plant with me instead. I grow a lot of my herbs and flowers out of seed babies and the joy of stumbling back into the room after a long day of classes + work and finding little leaflets popping out of the soil is insurmountable. When deprived of live baby animals to cuddle with, I hover over and adore my plants. I think Japan may have gotten it right when it started building cat cafes because I might be turning into the crazy-plant-lady. Not an improvement over cats.
Today, I bought a couple of plants to add to the organic garden collection in my backyard. We have a single strawberry plant, grown from a miniscule strawberry seed baby. It has five leaves right now. I adore it so much even though it's puny.
I started up another pumpkin patch this year. The roots look weak though, I need to do something about that.
Cucumber plant.
Just bought two potted eggplant plants today.
And a pepper plant.
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