WAG - Going around the bends
While deep-sea scuba diving, one needs to keep in mind how long they’ve been under. It’s a matter of time. The depths reached and the time spent below need to be factored in to determine how long the assent will take.
The idea is that if one returns to the surface too quickly, without taking the time to readjust to the differences in pressure, one can get a case of the bends, a life-threatening condition (in layman’s terms, it’s bubbles on the brains, but since we’re switching out of the metaphor and into the main topic of this post, I need not bore you with the specific details of nitrogen gas under pressure and shifts in atmospheres as one goes deeper underwater).
I am attempting to follow the same guiding principles as I wait for classes to start again at Mizzou.
I’m working on adjusting how I spend free time, eating schedules, shifting the time I get up (not the time when I go to bed – I just need more practice getting up early in the morning regardless of how late I stayed up) and other similar details. This practice is difficult due to two factors: my environment and my laziness.
Currently it’s hard to reconstruct the parameters of college life while my surroundings and human nature inadvertently conspire against me. I lack many external cues to act like a college student. I am not surrounded by college alumni, I do not have the full access to my movie, book, or music collection I am used to enjoying. Internally, after weeks of spoiling myself when it comes to sleeping in and then not being too constructive (I’m still reading about a book a day, but even that is hard to justify when I let other tasks go unperformed), I don’t want too.
I’m still on vacation, if only for a short time longer, and my body and mind is telling me to act like it.
It’s a matter of routine. Eventually, something’s going to have to change (and unless I get some kind of grant to support the lethargic lifestyle I’ve currently become accustomed to, I think it’s going to be me.
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