Releiving stress during break

In two days many SF State students and faculty will try to leave behind their assignments, deadlines, campus commitments and most of all their STRESS. Spring break is not just a time to get out and enjoy the things you've been missing, but a time to relax your mind, body and soul. With no furthur or due, here's the Gater's favorite ways to releive stress.

Spend a day at the Discovery Zone. Better yet, go to Paramount's Great America. You're never too old to enjoy a good roller coaster ride... But if kids stress you out avoid it.

Go to the gym and take out all of you frustrations on the Stairmaster.

Take a leisurely drive down the coast to Carmel, where you can have breakfast at Katy's, a quaint little cottage-type restaurant with Eggs Benedict to die for!

Go to a local park and watch a little league game. It not only will be nice to get out in the sun and lounge, but you will be laughing hysterically by the second inning if it's tee-ball.

Find the nearest area with grass. Take off socks and shoes. Sit down. Scrunch the grass in your toes.

Have a picnic. It can be in a park, at the beach, or even in your own yard. Do it right, with sandwiches and drinks and a basket and a blanket. It will help you go flying into the "spring" mode.

Stop and smell the flowers.

Close your eyes, think of the things that are stressing you out. Mentally attatch several sticks of dynomite to it. Light the fues. Now wasn't that fun?

Get a full body massage.

Watch "Melrose Place," realize your life has substance. Be happy that your sister didn't sleep with your boyfriend, try to blow up your apartment and come back from the dead to haunt you.

Got to a maternity ward, check out all the sweet little newborns.

Take a bubble bath, surrounded by candles and play your favorite CD.

Sex.

Loaf on the beach with a good book. Watch the waves.

Put a pillow in front of your face. Scream. Let go before you suffocate.

While studying for a class over the break, take the notes form a class you hated last semster and rip them up.

Think of the folks who can't go to college... you sure are lucky.

[ Golden Gater Online March 28, 1996 ]

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