I must say it's been a full-on twenty four hours. After (trying) to study all day yesterday I left for work in the late afternoon and, as always, hoped for a relatively quiet night. When it comes to the lab you can end up having three kind of nights:
a.) unbelievably quiet tantamount to having absolutely nothing to do so you end up spending your entire shift reading cnn.com inside out, figuratively speaking. Usually correlating to really bad weather where people can't be bothered to leave their house to get their blood drawn. These shifts, though mind-numbingly boring, are my favourite but they're pretty rare.
b.) Not too quiet, not too busy, like the past few weeks where I've managed to finish all my work about a half hour early. Nice!
c.) Non-stop. Crazy. The worst part of these nights is that it is usually insidious in onset, ie. you don't even see it coming. Last night was one of these nights, and what made it that much more harder was all these little things that could go wrong did go wrong! Tracking things down, sending away tests, spilling blood on myself(!) -- I appreciate lab coats and finally get what they're for, getting horrible static shocks every time I took my lab coat off(!! not fun), and not to mention, 24hr urines. Ugh. The most unpleasant part of the job. And man do those acid urines stink. It's important though; needs to get done.
I definitely earned my money last night. I was so incredibly tired by the time I got home, especially considering I didn't sleep very well the night before (should NOT have coffee past dinner time, no matter how tempting).
Today? Studying, studying, studying... then my parents hosted a barbecue for some family friends which was great... but pretty full-on. I had fun though. Ate SO much; it was nice.
Crazy twenty-four hours... but don't ask me what I spent the past two hours doing. I will not confirm or deny that I was watching the Pussycat Dolls finale... with my mum and dad. LoL.
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