a day of rest

i've been on 12-hour night shifts for the past 5 nights, which has been way more tiring than i'd ever imagined it would. this past week my days:

17:30 - go to work
06:00 - home, walk dogs, wash MRSA, VRE, XDRTB off body
07:00 - sleep
15:30 - run
17:00 - shower
17:30 - go to work

here's a pic of me doing what i did best this week:

notice there isn't time in there for things like cooking grocery shopping, laundry, or any other of those household essentials. i realize that most surgeons have a lot worse of it than I do, but for me, this is hard. i don't know what i would have done without livvie to help make sure that i ate properly and had clean clothes and that the dogs got reasonably cared-for. thanks, sweetie. without liv, my life would have unraveled considerably more than it did.

when my string of shifts finally did come to an end, we had a great dinner out at milltown with josh and sarah. (and ulysses) the food, beer and the company were superb.  i had worked with josh on a few cases in the hospital and had enjoyed my professional interactions with him.  i had only communicated with sarah on the internet through blogging, so i didn't really know her personally. we found that, not surprisingly, we all have quite a few things in common.