Oh, the great weather! Highs in the upper 70s has been an uplifting improvement.

My first class in graduate school has been rough. Each week a 5 page essay is due, usually comparing some great historical leader to some modern business. Queen Elizabeth to General Electric, Ghandi to BFI, etc. On top of that, two other smaller essays are due each week for class discussion. These aren’t as in depth (don’t need references) but still time consuming. A 12 page paper, a “scholarly review”, of one of the text books is due in 3 weeks on top of all this. So, yeah, rough.

Class has been really burning me out, giving me a lot of stress. So I didn’t know how to respond when I was invited to be the fourth person in a foursome of golf with some guys from work. The tee-time was 7:50am, Sunday morning. Sunday is my first day off of my 3-day weekends (12-hour work days, 4 days a week), and I wasn’t sure I wanted to wake up early on my first day off of the week. I also wasn’t confident that I was caught up enough in my classwork to be golfing on my day off instead of doing homework. I caved in, knowing I was willing to risk homework for much-needed relaxation.

It was well worth it. I got my all-time lowest score on 18-holes today, a 136! This may seem terrible, and it is, but I felt I did really well - much better than my previous norm of 160s. It was mostly putting that messed me up this time, along with the many water hazards the course offers. When I got home, I felt much more relaxed and willing to concentrate on my assignments for class.

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