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I'm not in IT, but molecular biology is a field where experiments constantly go wrong on a regular basis and you feel like nothing you're doing is any good (well, you do if you're an insecure perfectionist like me...). So what I do is this:
1) Go home. Go straight to home. Do not "just finish something off". Do collect $200, if available, but hell, if that happens, you won't really need stress-relief... :)
2) Do not think about work. You'll only wind yourself up again.
3) Drink at least one bottle of wine (sweet or medium white, not red), eat some good food and watch a movie/comedy show you know makes you laugh.
4) Turn in early (ensure you aren't going to be hungover from the wine) and get a good night's sleep.
Now, if you successfully avoided thinking about work, you should wake up feeling much better in the morning (unless you're highly weight-conscious, 'cos that wine'll blow your diet!). The sugar in the wine always leaves me feeling bouncy the next day and the emotional release from the booze/laughing at the video will have relieved some tension. Also, the alcohol should have relaxed any tenseness between the shoulders (that's where stress gets me, all the time - of course, if you have a partner - backrubs!!).
Obviously, don't do this too often or you'll end up with a drink problem but I find it does relax me. Use the energy and buzz from the wine as you head to work the next morning to plan your day. I've found I generally create more problems than I solve if I make plans whilst still panicked about something. I've run completely pointless experiments to check out the one that just failed when I should have just set the thing up again with a different control.
So, basically, if you get stressed because the glass always seems half-empty, top it back up with something cheerful and mildly alcoholic! :)
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Whaddaya mean, Look 'em up yourself?! Damn it, Liz, I'm a flight engineer, not a doctor!
Body stops making its own and you're an addict. Get it? Got it. Good.
BC, sounds like you're taking steps to improve your situation. That's great. It shows that you're not giving in to hopelessness. As long as you keep doing something positive, things are bound to get better.
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Well...I found something to help work off my frustration and excite my eye-candy quotent: TRON 2.0. And I can safely say it's as fun as they say it is. And the eye candy factor.....wow
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Good, Glad tyo hear their is a little something out there for ya!:D
