In a few more days, I might be human again.
You know how when you haven’t gotten a lot of sleep for anywhere from several nights to several months and then you get a chance to sleep for a long time and you do it a few nights in a row and as you start to catch up you get more and more tired until you’re just terribly sleepy all day and you can barely stay awake at the keyboard and you wish you had the good sense to just take a nap but having already slept like half the day you don’t want to and you write terrible run-on sentences about it instead?
It’s like that today.
Whew...breath now...LOL I know exactly what you mean!
Posted by Sharon on 02/21 at 10:31 PMVery similar to the first 2 years of grad school, except that you still have to get up and go to work. The lab doesn’t take naps.
Posted by caltechgirl on 02/22 at 09:23 AMI thought I had the sleep deprivation thing down ok after spending 9 months at Navy OCS, the first 8 weeks without liberty, but the Marines are (or were when I was there) required to leave you alone from 2200 to 0500. Which means bed about 2300 and up about 0400 in reality, though that improved once I got stuck on hold (it’s only supposed to be a 3 month program). In any case, having a baby taught me that there’s a huge difference between five hours of uninterrupted sleep and eight hours of up-and-down, OCS was much less brutal than being a new parent.
I’d imagine the lab demands the weird hours, too…
Posted by Deb on 02/22 at 10:16 AM
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