Back in the routine

Another day, another attempt at a blog post.

I'm tired. And I shouldn't be. I'm on an outpatient block right now, which means I'm working an easy 8-to-5 schedule, more or less. I should be resting up for the inpatient surgery and medicine rotations I have coming up. From what I hear, those are supposed to kill me.

Except that I'm not resting. Part of it comes from the fact that I'm trying to finish up my two research projects. One was supposed to be done ages ago and is still somehow taking up my time. The other one, well, I suppose I knew I'd be working on it at this point. The other challenging thing is the fact that Karen has a particularly brutal schedule that requires her to get up at 4am every morning for work. (That's what I'll be doing in January and February.)

But that means that I also wake up at 4am. I don't stay up long, but it's usually long enough for me to fully wake up and spend a little bit of time getting back to sleep. I just don't feel as rested afterwards. I don't blame her; we all know that we'll have that schedule at some point. In January and February, she probably won't be too thrilled to hear my alarm going off at 4am as I get up and head into the hospital for surgery pre-rounds.

Time to stop whining and get to work. This abstract isn't going to write itself.