NoMoreTimeToday

Note to self! If you have clinical in the morning and need to be up at 5:30am, do not go out for coffee at 7pm the night before and order a grande caramel latte! You will dearly regret the caffeine and sugar when you wake up at 1:40, 2:15, 3:23, 4:18, 4:40 and 5:02! When you cannot get back to sleep after 5:02 and realize that you just had a dream about one of your professor failing you for skipping a clinical (which has never happened. not ever.), you will be bitter.

You will also be bitter when, despite wake-me-up chai tea at 7am, and a keep-me-up latte at 11am, you fall asleep waiting for your clinical instructor to sign off on your charting.

You would think after two years of this, I'd have developed some better habits with the caffeine and the sleeping. You would be wrong.

I happen to know that at least one person out there is having a much more thrilling day than me - while I was packing sterile gauze into my patient's gaping surgical incision, (don't worry, I was quite alert at the time) my friend Tricia won $1000 from a local radio station! Lucky dutch.