I work overnight a few days a week and it's wreaking havoc with my sleep schedule. Even though I'm a med student in-training, I'm not quite ready to abandon sleep completely (although if I wanted the practice, I could be awake for 48 hours straight.)
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| Guess it's preparation for M1, right? |
But more accurately, it's messing with my motherly guilt meter. I work overnight on the weekends, so when I come home, Jr is getting up for the day. And I'm heading to bed. It sucks. He keeps peeking into my room all morning waiting for me to get up, and even though I'm exhausted, my brain keeps awakening me, telling me to get up because Jr is up. How could I possibly be sleeping when I could be spending time with my family?! So after about 3 or 4 hours, I get up. And after two days of this, I'm exhausted all week, finally recovering when it's time to work again. Thanks to this problem I fall asleep at 3pm, or 11 am, or fully awake at 3am. Time has started to lose all meaning and I'm falling even further behind in studying because my brain is too tired, unfocused, and weak.
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| This is the only picture I could find where the student wasn't smiling ridiculously while sleeping. Seriously- WTF? |
So I'm going through a readjustment period, looking for ways to square my sleep and my studying. Two months till the MCAT...
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