History repeating itself

Here's the pattern:
Princess takes way too much onto her plate
(say, over the past month, having finals, ethics orals, doing therapy, moving and her first conference talk, while most grad students are on their holidays between spring and summer semester).
She does relatively well, and though she may complain about being stressed out and wanting it to be over, these complaints remain relatively innocuous (remember, her whole schtick is appearing overly in control).
Then, say, a day or two before it is all schedule to be over, the veneer cracks just a little.
Say, for instance, she has a few glasses of wine and gets a little grumpy.
Then she hates herself for even getting a little grumpy.
Then she realizes that the reason she is a little grumpy is because she hasn't had a break in ages.
Then she has to apologize frantically for being justifiably grumpy, and gets really mad at herself for not being able to handle the stress.

I sometimes think an overachieving and overanalytic grad student is one of the worst things in the world.

Ignorance and simplicity-- or even just 9 to 5-- feel like they might be utter bliss.