The weeks leading up to Halloween are, for me, always some of the hardest in the year at Karma Academy – because of our tradition of having a Halloween Event for the elementary students, combined with the the rhythms of the Korean academic calendar, which leads to a full schedule of classes for middle schoolers and also having to prepare tests for the elementary kids.
So…. Very busy.
I had a horrible nightmare last night. Unrelated to the current intensity of work, but perhaps merely brought out by the incidence of stress.
I dreamed I was back at the Cancer Center. They'd found another tumor. I was going through it all again. It was just a "replay of stressful experience" dream, but with full consciousness, within the dream, that it was a replay.
I woke up feeling quite discouraged about life.
[daily log: walking, 7km]