I've been awake for 43 of the last 50 hours. I'm back at work in eight.

Time for a nap.

I was quite sleepy by the time 9pm rolled around. In fact, I'd already involuntarily dozed a few times on the day room sofa. So, I got up with the intention of catching up on lost sleep. Since then, I've picked a lady up off the floor, investigated a fire alarm in an old folks home and handled a medical emergency -- all strategically timed in such ( Read more... )

The paper is out of the way. Of course, I've got less than 22 hours to finish up a couple of units in my two classes and take the final regular online tests. The tests themselves shouldn't be hard, but shoving all of that knowledge into my brain in such a short order is liable to give me a headache ( Read more... )

I don't know if it was good sleep, but it was hard and much needed ( Read more... )

If my math is right (and it might not be), I've had somewhere in the neighborhood of four hours of sleep out of the last 41. I don't think that's a good average ( Read more... )

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Something is unsettled. I don't know what, exactly... just that it is ( Read more... )

I can remember one particular Tuesday night in high school or early in college. I was working for the weekly paper back home and I'd stayed up all night working on page layouts. I finally made it home and to bed sometime around 4 a.m. knowing that I had to be awake just four hours later. I wondered to myself if four hours would even be enough to ( Read more... )

I survived the two tests Saturday without suffering a massive heart attack ( Read more... )

I finally crashed around 6:20a. I'd only been out for a couple of hours when this terribly loud noise woke me up. I couldn't figure out what it was! Just as soon as it would stop and I'd think there would be peace... the noise would happen again. Oh, it was awful. And I was frustrated because I couldn't figure out what kept making this terrible ( Read more... )