Celebrating......but not really

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Date: 26 July 2005 14:41:02

I'm so happy - I've just handed in both my essays and my big annoying folder!!! Normally we have until after our placement and the holidays to get the work done, but because its the end of the year, it all had to be done much sooner. So it was a bit of a rush trying to do it all, especially my folder. I persuaded my mentor at 8pm last night - an hour after my 12 hour shift should have ended - that I had done everything I should have done and she should sign it all off. Many thanks to Matty for her great advice on that subject.

All my stress is gone now, and its great, except somehow I feel i can't fully celebrate and relax because so many other people are still stressed and tense about lots of other problems - deadlines, men (whether wrong or right) and life generally. I suppose its good because I want to help these people, so now I don't have lots to do (only work full time), I can support them. But I feel really bad when I rejoice at having finished it all, when there are all these other people who haven't finished their work and have all these other stressors on the top. I try not to rub their noses in it, but at the same time i want to just go "yay! - I'm done!" I think I just have to support them through their stressy times, just as they supported me through mine (they have done in the past and I'm sure they will continue to do so).