where am I again?

Oh yeah... Wisconsin. Right.

The theme of the last couple of weeks has been rain. Thunder, lightning and RAIN. Lots of it. Shit is flooding, lakes and rivers running over their banks. Lawns soaked and kids out of school... and thus, inside, and in my hair and on my nerves and I swear to God if one of them whines at me because its STILL RAINING one more time I just might have to smack 'em!!! (well... not really, but damn its tempting sometimes... that or to go find a really dirty sock to stuff in their mouths!).

I'm still in my 30 day crossfit challenge, we're in week 3 I believe... I missed yesterday's WOD, but I just finished making it up and I'll do today's later this evening. I'm making gains in strength and endurance but I'll be damned if the scale hasn't budged an inch. *sigh* I know that I can out-eat any work-out program, but damn... this is an INTENSE one, so I was hoping I'd get to take it easier on the diet. Guess not.

I start clinicals again next Tuesday. This rotation is geriatrics for me and I'm on the sub-acute unit of a local hospital. "Sub-acute" is just code for "rehab" which is where they send older folks after surgery when they need longer recovery than normal or who are "actively dieing" and are on comfort measures but don't want to be at home or in a hospice facility. Should be a relatively mellow rotation except for the fact that its a night-shift. Ugh. I can do days, I can do PMs (3-11pm) but nights is going to be a challenge for me physiologically. My body doesn't like night shift... it likes to sleep when its dark. That's probably one of the main reasons I ended up so depressed when I was living in Alaska... my body wanted to sleep all winter long, which isn't good for the social life of a teen-ager, if ya know what I mean. *sigh*

Kids are good... Older one is off to his dad's in OR for six weeks (yay!) younger one is driving me NUTS with no one to "play with!" I'm sending him off to a movie with Grandma tomorrow so I can take my Geriatrics final in peace and then its prep time for pediatrics. I have 121 days left until I graduate and I am nearly ready to start counting minutes and seconds. Being done still seems like a dream that is SO FAR OFF in the distance... but it IS coming and I just have to make it through 17.5 more weeks.

*sigh*

Posted by Lexy at June 12, 2008 10:53 AM