This week has been absolutely terrible for sleep, but I think I am getting smarter. (Maybe I could study this for my required III project for school!) Usually pre-school-term, anticipitory stress leaves me so frazzled that I welcome the first week of school, not just for the new classes and exciting events, but for the good solid sleep I will begin to get. Not so this term. Sure I had a couple of nightmares in the week before the new term. Nothing spectacular, just the usual forgetting stuff at home, not showing up to class, being is super slow motion while I have trying to right my wrongs. You know, the usual in crazy margaret sleep psychosis. Then I had a night of not such great sleep, followed by what was quite possibly the worst night's sleep (if you can even call it that) that I think I have ever had. I am still paying the piper on that one. Unfortunately I kept my whole apartment up that night and my kitten is desperately trying to recover. So, while I trudge off to school each day, she settles down into my still warm sheets and gets a couple of hours of shut eye. (Sorry C- had to do it, its the new camera!)
Good for her, because I am still not sleeping well and she has to be up all night with me. (Good thing last night though, so I could pull the curling ribbon out of her throat as she was choking on it, but that's other news).
But even with all of this, I think I am getting smarter. I just completed two assignments, med school assignments to boot, and am left with the "hey, that was way too easy feeling". So instead of getting worried and paranoid about misinterpreting the assignment as the old (pre-Kari) Margaret would, I am now sitting back enjoying how smart and cool I am and how much this med school thing is really paying off. I just did an assignment on how I would go about researching something I would need to know to make a clinical decision and the keys were flying under my fingers. That's just cool. I'm cool. And very delerious from a sleep deprived state, so I am going to treat myself to a good chunk of fun reading before I hit the hay and listen for Suki's antics tonight.
