Busy, but not defeated!

It’s been one of those weeks where I’m overwhelmed with work, and even though crawling under a rock isn’t an option — I totally want to crawl under a rock. The Pallas cat pictured below — that face — more or less summed up how I felt when I rolled out of bed this morning. But, then I took a nice walk — I had some tea — ate lunch at my favorite spot — met my wonderful new Chinese tutor (because my Mandarin has gotten way too rusty) — and just told myself to chill the hell out.

And it worked. I...