working nights

we have windows! we have doors! we have insulation and drywall! unfortunately, the doors are locked, so i guess we can't go inside anymore to check out the progress. and of course i forgot to take pictures of the outside of the house with the windows in place. we're supposed to be able to move in on july 1, and it seems that everything is still on track.

i'm about half way through my practicum and it's still going well. i'm still learning a lot of new stuff every single day (or night) so it's pretty tiring. i don't mind the 12-hour shifts that much and working nights isn't all that bad. on my ward, it gets really quiet at night, when, ideally, the patients are sleeping. the quiet part balances out the tough part of working nights.... the day before your night shift starts is shot because you have to nap in the afternoon in anticipation of not getting a decent sleep in the next 3 days. after a night shift, you sleep during the day, but inevitably wake up around noon, hungry for lunch, even though you snacked all night and you're still so tired you just want to get back to bad. after a light lunch, you go back to bed, and hopefully get a few more hours of sleep before your next shift. and the day you get off nights is shot because you sleep for about 6 hours during the day. and then you go to sleep again at night because 6 hours really isn't enough and since it's night time you're supposed to sleep. the next day (which is today) is weird because you're still kind of tired, but you're not sure that you're supposed to be tired anymore so you try to make plans, but you really don't feel like doing anything so you sit at your computer and blog about it.