The stress is on yet again.

I've been all over the map lately: (1)I'm in the midst of the largest research project I've ever undertaken for my internship, [with extreme determination to prove myself],(2)I've begun to stress over the idea that grad-school begins in weeks and finally,(3) I've met someone.

Christmas music has been helping me through it all. It ironically is the soundtrack that helps me cope with stress the best. I look forward to where everything is moving, and I can't wait to see where it all leads.

I've also adopted a new outlook on stress: (from previous experiences)

STRESS brings out my best traits: determination, optimism, and an

understanding/challenging of my limits. There's a time and place for everything especially stress, which can yield success, or a mess, which you have to power to choose which turns into.

FINALLY, I have to leave you with the quote I adopted in what was perhaps my darkest time in life... I first posted it from a spanish hospital:

"Wear the clothes you have well, savor the food you've been given, the more obstacles the sweeter the goal, pack a rain coat.Life is a scoop: cup or cone." -just me.