Sleep...

I, like my colleagues, have reached that point in our curriculum where all we really want to do is sleep. The clinicals that are supposed to "transition" us into "real" nurses make us want to take a "big fat nap." The phrase..."big fat nap" was actually coined and probably copyrighted by my classmate EC, but I've stolen it and made it my own. It's thursday...I have no clinicals today, yet I am awakened at 5:30 simply because my body is used to being awake at 5 a.m. to go to clinicals. Thankfully exhaustion won out and I fell back asleep until 8. Ya...8 isn't late enough for my tastes on my day off, and it's especially troubling when I'm supposed to work tonight. That's no bueno. I'm sleepy already...hence perhaps one of the reasons that I had that outbreak of shingles, but enough about sleep. I think I'm going to have to go find some before I have to go and get my SLP points DONE. Read aaron's column this week.....it's good for a laugh (www.aaronkaro.com ).