After a very intense mentoring committee meeting, where many flaws were exposed, I am now hitting my stride and addressing issues. Finding mentors through Facebook (hey c'mon, it IS a networking site, after all), finding my niche within the published research, and generally feeling good.
I only wish I didn't have to run away from the office to accomplish so much.... But it needed to be done. I was stressing out about not getting anything done, even as I was pulled in a thousand different directions. As an aside, I hate working in a cube farm - it's WAY to easy for people to interrupt your train of thought....
I think that sometimes a change of scenery away from where we work gives one's brain time to think things through, put stuff into perspective and to get stuff done. But it above all enables us to see what's worth stressing about and what isn't worth getting stressed and uptight about.
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