Stressed!

It's funny how stressed out I can get over homework. I am a huge fan of due dates and deleting things from my to-do list, but when circumstances get in the way of completing my homework on time, it seriously stresses me out! I just need to chill. Breathe in, breathe out. A zero here or there won't kill me, though I feel that it will. Life happens. It is OKAY. Phew. I just had to get that out. Thanks for reading. :)

Now that that's out of the way.... I'm realizing how crazy busy I have been over the past two weeks. This week things are looking up. I am now officially ONLY on night shift with Baby Non, which means I will have the whole day full of sunshine to myself to sleep, study, ride my bike, drink coffee, hide away with my Kindle, spend time with friends, or whatever else I decide to do. I think a balanced life is on the horizon! It's amazing how out of balance my life can feel after three busy weeks: 1 week with a friend visiting and the following 2 with a brand new baby to look after. I can breathe easier today, knowing the long hours of working night shift, then day shift, then night shift, then day shift are behind me now.

Instead, I get to look forward to a friend's graduation tomorrow. Two friends, actually. They are graduating from Mae Fa Luang University here in Chiang Rai. The funny thing about graduations in Thailand is that people don't actually get to walk until about a year after they graduate. Each university graduation has a member of the royal family present, and they speak and congratulate each of the students, so it's a really big deal. Today as I was getting my daily caffeine dose at the local coffee shop, I noticed the roads were getting cleared off; there were police officers stationed every couple hundred meters all along the superhighway, for who knows how many kilometers, making way for royalty. I've seen them at this for hours before, clearing the roads and waiting for the royal family to drive by. Then, they drive by. It's quite anticlimactic if you ask me.