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The year 2006 is THE year for my PhD. And as I am beginning to realise also the year full of stress. For no particular reason, apart from knowing that I need to work on PhD. Every morning when I wake up, I feel a bulge in my stomach as it would be full of some kind of flies and bees (in contrast to butterflies at special occasions). Then the second thing is a more and more constant pain in my forehead … just ‘above between’ the eyes. As if I had a boiling water in there all the time. I’ve noticed I hardly ever really relax these days. Why is that? It is not the case that I wouldn’t be enjoying in working on the PhD. On a contrary - I love it. Maybe could it be because I think I am not working hard enough? Bingo!
I think what really makes me frustrated is the fact, that not always (or better quite rarely so far) I have some concrete results of my work to show. By the end of the *whole* day, at best I have a page to show or maybe not even that. I guess this is called giving birth to PhD. So I better stop whining about it and find an effective stress killer.
I need to start running again, didn’t do it for more than a month - just out of bad excuses. Which is really funny because once I start again, I *know* I will be so happy about it. The catch of a contemporary hedonism, maybe? Why enjoy something if we can simply get enough from just longing for it.
The other thing that chills me out and makes me feel at peace is a candle light. As much candles as possible, various colours, shapes and aromas.
A bath-tub with jasmine or white musk fragrance oil makes me forget about almost everything but unfortunately I only have a shower in my current apartment. So I try to compensate with delicious body soaps and butters like miranda soap, karma soap, africa spa honey mud, cocoa butter, king of skin (amazing), and amazonian massage bar which send me straight to heaven:).
I should definitely go to sauna more often and it’s a skiing season as well so …. but first all those goodies in Louvain-la-Neuve 
By Nana | January 7, 2006 | Topics: Personal, PhD |
January 8th, 2006 at 9:52 pm
Stop scaring me! I have to write my PhD thesis by the end of this year, which is scary enough without expecting to have to put up with insects in my stomach and boiling water behind my forhead.
January 9th, 2006 at 7:50 am
Hey Mitja, welcome to the same boat! I think insects and water are case sensitive, so don’t get too scared just yet;)