I just woke up from an afternoon nap. I'm kind of really exhausted.
Ran experiments all week except Tuesday and today; Tuesday I was nursing my shoulder (at its worst), and today I decided I couldn't run more experiments in my current state so I left early. When I was running experiments, I was pretty much on my feet for 5 hours straight, and because I was in the lab I couldn't eat or drink unless I took my lab coat and gloves off for break. My logic was though, I might as well finish up as early as possible and just go home early, instead of staying for lunch. I got home late afternoon most days anyway, and I was never really that hungry.
Except for Thursday. I slept late on Wednesday, and got up early enough to make breakfast instead of stopping by the Tim Hortons' on the way to the bus stop. I made eggs and toast, but my throat was too dry for toast (I'm blaming my dehydration on those long hours in the lab). I could barely stand on Thursday; I'm not sure if it was the tiredness or hunger. It also messed up my results; my three runs of experiments on Thursday came out with the greatest standard deviations. I just wanted to get home and sleep, because I had something important later in the afternoon that I wanted to be fully alert for.
I generally don't sleep well anymore - it's a result of odd study hours and bad habits lingering from last term when I didn't have any morning commitments and waking up at 10:30am was perfectly acceptable. Now, I'm getting up at "normal people hours" (7:00-7:30am most days) but still sleeping at 1:00, 2:00, sometimes even as late as 4:00 in the morning. And it's not like I'm studying hard or anything; I'm just awake on the internet, wasting time or chatting with friends.
Things can't continue this way if I'm supposed to do lab work and study for the MCAT, which I haven't really started doing in earnest yet. It's only week two of the summer, and I'm already running out of steam. I guess for me it's a strict 1:00am bedtime, proper breakfast (with carbs. Carbs are important), and no dawdling when I get home.
Let's do this? Let's do this.
