Tri-8 Wk7 Day 490 - Wednesday!

I'm keeping this to a 12 hour day today which is an ambiguous way of saying I'm not making it to my Nutrition class this morning and will be leaving home around 8 a.m. and getting home around 8 p.m. after my clinic shift is over.

I've got a smorgasbord of thoughts & ideas, a plethora of pensive passions, and a couple of thoughts on how I'm going to spend the 4 days off I have coming up. Physically, I've turned to mush as well so, one of my first thoughts regarding the time I have off revolves around getting into the gym. Sleep is a HUGE priority and I'm pretty sure there will be a double sleep session starting tonight which means I'll be sleeping through the night, get up then probably laying back down to sleep again. This double sleep pattern is how I first dealt with the sleep apnea, before I had my bi-pap machine and was the reason I first went to see my MD because I wasn't having much of a waking, productive life anymore which was disturbing, to say the least. There is nothing more powerful I'll be able to do to reset my brain and infuse a more positive, happy outlook on life then to get rested with productive sleep.

After gym time & sleep, the third thing on my to-do list will have to concern school. Geez ...I can just feel the dissonance swell up in my brain at the mere thought of dealing with school. I noticed Dr. Shay had added this blog as one he was following and I recall when I first saw him after quitting the pledging process with his fraternity when he mentioned he noticed some kind of psychosomatic response from me when I first saw him. I sure didn't mean any personal or bad reflection on him but, he may have been correct in his assessment. I can feel that same type of response when thinking of school ...a very distinct and noticeable firing of neurons in my brain which tend to produce a not so pleasant emotional response.

As far as what I can "handle" with my current self, I can think back to those pledging days and say with a fair amount of certainty that 16 to 18 hour days were too much and these current 12 to 14 hour days are kind of on the cusp of survival and still being able to progress and move ahead with school.

Mail is a fourth consideration to deal with during this 4 day break.