Towards a PhD: Weird

KruYing
2 min readJan 24, 2019

Day 298: 1/23/2019

My body was acting sort of weird today.

I believe as my stress level has started to increase (and seemingly it will continue to do so), my body is now acting weird and I could spot some of the strange signs for the past few days.

First, there have been some nights that I have difficulty falling asleep and that resulted in me going to bed very late and sleeping in the next morning.

Next, at 1.30, my usual lunchtime, I felt hungry and thus I took a break from working and walked to the kitchen. There I reheated my breakfast leftover and as the microwaved bell rung, my appetite somehow went downhill. As a result, I opted for a light lunch option which I had a mandarin and a raisin scone instead. This was relatively peculiar, especially when compared to my usual lunch intake.

Having work nonstop for a few more hours, my body asked for more food again. This was, I assume, due to physical fatigue and mental stress. Then I reheated my lunch (again) and had it for dinner. This time I felt I needed more food so I boiled two eggs to have along side my dish. Somehow my body seemed to want more but I decided not to feed it with any more food tonight.

In the evening, while I felt completely exhausted and wanted to take a long nap as opposed to staring at the screen and making changes endlessly, I kept telling myself that I need to work out. With tremendous effort, I then went to get changed into my gym outfit and did exercise for 20 good minutes. It was something I thanked myself for doing that.

Despite several weird signs of stress and tiredness, I am happy that some work has been done and I still feel incredible that I could finish recording a podcast episode after working out. :)

I only have one body and I have to take a really good care of it!

1/24/2019 12.10 am.

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KruYing
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Written by KruYing

INFJ - educator - applied linguist #YouMeandYork #TowardsaPhD

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