It's already Tuesday!
My weekend flew by. I, of course, also had to work. I work in a hospital pharmacy and I have been getting the 9-5 weekend shift which entails making total parenteral nutrition. Lately the numbers have been up there in the 30s. The last time I worked the TPN shift, I had 35 and 33 to make and I left 30 minutes and an hour late those 2 times. So when I saw I had 32 and I had to work with a pharmacist not known for his speed...I was afraid I would leave at 6 again. Somehow I managed to squeeze out 32 TPNs in about 3 hours and punched out exactly at 5.
Other than that, I didn't work out over the weekend. I was tired, cranky, and not around during gym hours.
But yesterday I spent 60 minutes on the elliptical, ran 2.25 miles, and took a 1 hour Muay Thai class that involved rotating through 5 stations in what felt like 4 or 5 minutes rounds. I started out strong with R., the hot fighter at the gym (I sooooo have a crush on her still but it's not as bad as it was). It was everything - punches, elbows, knees, front kicks, roundhouses. It took me until the 5th station to really get my roundhouse kicks going...I think sometimes you get too tense and focus too much on throwing a solid kick that it doesn't come out decently. It's only when you relax that it comes out strong. Plus I was tired by the 5th station. The guy at the 4th station killed me - he really pushed me to throw my punches fast and land my long knee quickly - he would have me throw a jab cross then knee, or jab and knee, or jap cross hook, or jab cross hook uppercut all finishing with a knee. I haven't thrown my punches that fast in a while....it was sort of fun.
I'm also looking for a black kimono maybe - one without any patterns. I found something sort of like what I'm looking for....except for 2 insignia in white. I guess I could just dye them black.
The hospital site is boring. I wore heels yesterday and my feet were killing me by the end of the day.
Gotta get going for the day.
My weekend flew by. I, of course, also had to work. I work in a hospital pharmacy and I have been getting the 9-5 weekend shift which entails making total parenteral nutrition. Lately the numbers have been up there in the 30s. The last time I worked the TPN shift, I had 35 and 33 to make and I left 30 minutes and an hour late those 2 times. So when I saw I had 32 and I had to work with a pharmacist not known for his speed...I was afraid I would leave at 6 again. Somehow I managed to squeeze out 32 TPNs in about 3 hours and punched out exactly at 5.
Other than that, I didn't work out over the weekend. I was tired, cranky, and not around during gym hours.
But yesterday I spent 60 minutes on the elliptical, ran 2.25 miles, and took a 1 hour Muay Thai class that involved rotating through 5 stations in what felt like 4 or 5 minutes rounds. I started out strong with R., the hot fighter at the gym (I sooooo have a crush on her still but it's not as bad as it was). It was everything - punches, elbows, knees, front kicks, roundhouses. It took me until the 5th station to really get my roundhouse kicks going...I think sometimes you get too tense and focus too much on throwing a solid kick that it doesn't come out decently. It's only when you relax that it comes out strong. Plus I was tired by the 5th station. The guy at the 4th station killed me - he really pushed me to throw my punches fast and land my long knee quickly - he would have me throw a jab cross then knee, or jab and knee, or jap cross hook, or jab cross hook uppercut all finishing with a knee. I haven't thrown my punches that fast in a while....it was sort of fun.
I'm also looking for a black kimono maybe - one without any patterns. I found something sort of like what I'm looking for....except for 2 insignia in white. I guess I could just dye them black.
The hospital site is boring. I wore heels yesterday and my feet were killing me by the end of the day.
Gotta get going for the day.
Ouch. Saturday I had a huge case of insomnia. Last night, I woke up at 1 a.m. and finally got my ass back to sleep at 4 a.m. and well, now I'm awake again. Hmm, 4 hours of sleep is not working very well for me. I have to leave for my rotation site soon anyway. I'm just sucking down coffee and a pb sandwich before I leave.
I typically have a sleeping problem during school because my brain goes into overdrive and even if I'm conscious of it or not, I'm stressing about studying and assignments and presentations and my board exams. So I'm sleeping like crap. I fall asleep great and then wake up and stay awake for a while. It's sort of hard to function efficiently.
I might just skip the gym today and see if I can catch some sleep but that's not the best way to get my sleep either because I'm afraid I won't be able to sleep even more at night. I guess I'll pack all my gear and if I feel like shit by the time 4 p.m. rolls around, then I'll just head home.
Have a good day everyone!
I typically have a sleeping problem during school because my brain goes into overdrive and even if I'm conscious of it or not, I'm stressing about studying and assignments and presentations and my board exams. So I'm sleeping like crap. I fall asleep great and then wake up and stay awake for a while. It's sort of hard to function efficiently.
I might just skip the gym today and see if I can catch some sleep but that's not the best way to get my sleep either because I'm afraid I won't be able to sleep even more at night. I guess I'll pack all my gear and if I feel like shit by the time 4 p.m. rolls around, then I'll just head home.
Have a good day everyone!
Damn, life is sort of hectic. Mondays through Fridays it looks like I'll be leaving home at 6:45 a.m. and then getting home at 8:30 or 9:30 p.m. That's one of the bad things about living in Brooklyn when everything I need to do aside from work is in Manhattan. Maybe I could crash at my sister's place but she just had a baby so I doubt they're sleeping very much right now. Otherwise it would be perfect.
Today was busy as usual. I was tired from the weekend but went to the gym and had a pretty hard/intensive workout. I ran 2.5 miles, took an hour of Muay Thai classes, ran a fast 0.5 miles, then did 45 minutes on the elliptical at level 2 on the interval program. Class was fun, though. We worked on defense against high roundhouse kicks. We never work those techniques so I felt a little awkward through the kicks from much closer in than I'm used to. I usually keep further out because I prefer low roundhouse kicks to the thigh but I like the surprise element of kicking someone to the head from jabbing range.
Besides fun at the gym, I'm a little annoyed with the gf. Right now I don't reallly give a crap about a Noguchi table for the living room because I was more concerned with finding my pharmacokinetics notes and clinical notes to start reviewing. The pile of notes is knee-high. Don't try to show me stuff like that when I'm obviously in a slight frenzy digging through the closet for clothes, workout clothes, and notes. It's a recurring problem. She simply doesn't understand that right now, I'm really really really busy. I need to do the things that I need to do and there is very little leeway and it's really stressful right now. I also have my licensing exam to study for. With my luck, she'll pick a fight before all three parts of my licensing exam because she has always had impeccable timing when it came time to pick a fight at an inopportune time. So not cool. Fuck I'm pissy.
Today was busy as usual. I was tired from the weekend but went to the gym and had a pretty hard/intensive workout. I ran 2.5 miles, took an hour of Muay Thai classes, ran a fast 0.5 miles, then did 45 minutes on the elliptical at level 2 on the interval program. Class was fun, though. We worked on defense against high roundhouse kicks. We never work those techniques so I felt a little awkward through the kicks from much closer in than I'm used to. I usually keep further out because I prefer low roundhouse kicks to the thigh but I like the surprise element of kicking someone to the head from jabbing range.
Besides fun at the gym, I'm a little annoyed with the gf. Right now I don't reallly give a crap about a Noguchi table for the living room because I was more concerned with finding my pharmacokinetics notes and clinical notes to start reviewing. The pile of notes is knee-high. Don't try to show me stuff like that when I'm obviously in a slight frenzy digging through the closet for clothes, workout clothes, and notes. It's a recurring problem. She simply doesn't understand that right now, I'm really really really busy. I need to do the things that I need to do and there is very little leeway and it's really stressful right now. I also have my licensing exam to study for. With my luck, she'll pick a fight before all three parts of my licensing exam because she has always had impeccable timing when it came time to pick a fight at an inopportune time. So not cool. Fuck I'm pissy.
Damn I'm tired. School fucks me up. The anxiety and stress of not having any days off for several months in a row has already wreaked havoc on my sleep. I had a huge bout of insomnia the other night and last night I slept for about 5.5 hours. I would love to get 7 hours in....but I don't know if that's going to happen.
Work was busy and annoying as usual. I'm glad that I didn't have to do TPN's. One of the other interns had to and she ended up staying an hour late because of the pharmacist she was working with. He's slow. I left an hour late when I worked with him last week.
I have to start thinking about my presentations for my 5 week rotation through NYU Tisch Hospital. One topic has to cover administrative aspects of pharmacy. The other presentation has to cover IV's. I have no idea what they expect us to discuss because I have no idea what it entails either. I suppose I could ask my friend who was there before me.
We are also supposed to detail one intervention a week minimum while we are there. This could involve inappropriate medication use, it could be therapeutic duplication, it could be a serious drug interaction, it could be a problem with the way the order is written. I got 2 interventions on Friday for the same person. I don't know if it'll count as 2 but we'll see.
The basic gist of the intervention was how the pain medication was being administered. One of the basic tenets of pain management is to have a regularly scheduled medication to manage the pain. However, at the end of each dosing interval, it is quite common to have breakthrough pain. This is typically offset by an as needed dosing of another painkiller. Basically one of the MD's had written 2 orders - a controlled release oxycontin for 3 times a day as needed and an immediate release oxycontin as needed. Controlled release oxycontin is dosed every 12 hours, not every 8 hours. There was also no indication of how many hours were to pass between each dose. The same went for the immediate release formulation. Essentially, when a doc gives pain medications like that, a patient's pain won't be managed as effectively and the risk of addiction is higher. Boring no? Actually, I like dealing with pain medication scheduling.
Work was busy and annoying as usual. I'm glad that I didn't have to do TPN's. One of the other interns had to and she ended up staying an hour late because of the pharmacist she was working with. He's slow. I left an hour late when I worked with him last week.
I have to start thinking about my presentations for my 5 week rotation through NYU Tisch Hospital. One topic has to cover administrative aspects of pharmacy. The other presentation has to cover IV's. I have no idea what they expect us to discuss because I have no idea what it entails either. I suppose I could ask my friend who was there before me.
We are also supposed to detail one intervention a week minimum while we are there. This could involve inappropriate medication use, it could be therapeutic duplication, it could be a serious drug interaction, it could be a problem with the way the order is written. I got 2 interventions on Friday for the same person. I don't know if it'll count as 2 but we'll see.
The basic gist of the intervention was how the pain medication was being administered. One of the basic tenets of pain management is to have a regularly scheduled medication to manage the pain. However, at the end of each dosing interval, it is quite common to have breakthrough pain. This is typically offset by an as needed dosing of another painkiller. Basically one of the MD's had written 2 orders - a controlled release oxycontin for 3 times a day as needed and an immediate release oxycontin as needed. Controlled release oxycontin is dosed every 12 hours, not every 8 hours. There was also no indication of how many hours were to pass between each dose. The same went for the immediate release formulation. Essentially, when a doc gives pain medications like that, a patient's pain won't be managed as effectively and the risk of addiction is higher. Boring no? Actually, I like dealing with pain medication scheduling.
Ahhh, chilling with some sleepytime tea after working the crappy 4-midnight shift at the hospital. At least it was easy and light today and I liked the people I was working with.
It's been officially 3 weeks since my left calf was lasered. I tattooed myself when I was 21 or 22 and compared to the other work on me, it was ugly. It took about 75 minutes and the next day I was horrendously blistered and swollen to the point where I had "cankle." And I was still running around doing boot camp and exercising with my fat leg wrapped up in a compression stocking and an ace bandage to minimize the swelling. When I was 20, I would have never imagined I would have undergone laser tattoo removal but I have no regrets about making room for better work.
Oh, this photo - taken 2 days after the lasering. It's alllllll blisters as you can see. Hot no?
And for those of you wondering? I started getting tattooed when I was 19 back in...1995!!!! but the work consisted of small things here and there. I took a small hiatus of maybe 2 years before I got my first big piece - a half sleeve. In retrospect, I wish I had taken it full sleeve off the bat instead of half. Duh, stupid youthful mistakes but who knew? I didn't know anyone who had full sleeves aside from tattooists. After I decided to start my back, it was all over from there - I did my back (Kevin Leblanc) finished up my arms (James Marlowe, Geordie Cole, JR Maloney), had my armpits done (Capobianco and Horihito), had my knees tattooed (Ben Wahh and Seth Ciferri), had the back of my neck (Grime), the back of my left knee (Chris O'Donnell), my right outer calf (Adam Barton), my collarbone area (Emma at Porcupine), and my right side from armpit to ankle (Larry Davis) my left outer calf (Ben Wahhh), and my left armpit to knee (Timothy Hoyer) tattooed up until I finished my last major piece in 2004? Or was it 2005? I can't remember. Blair also branded my stomach back in 2001.
It's been officially 3 weeks since my left calf was lasered. I tattooed myself when I was 21 or 22 and compared to the other work on me, it was ugly. It took about 75 minutes and the next day I was horrendously blistered and swollen to the point where I had "cankle." And I was still running around doing boot camp and exercising with my fat leg wrapped up in a compression stocking and an ace bandage to minimize the swelling. When I was 20, I would have never imagined I would have undergone laser tattoo removal but I have no regrets about making room for better work.
Oh, this photo - taken 2 days after the lasering. It's alllllll blisters as you can see. Hot no?
And for those of you wondering? I started getting tattooed when I was 19 back in...1995!!!! but the work consisted of small things here and there. I took a small hiatus of maybe 2 years before I got my first big piece - a half sleeve. In retrospect, I wish I had taken it full sleeve off the bat instead of half. Duh, stupid youthful mistakes but who knew? I didn't know anyone who had full sleeves aside from tattooists. After I decided to start my back, it was all over from there - I did my back (Kevin Leblanc) finished up my arms (James Marlowe, Geordie Cole, JR Maloney), had my armpits done (Capobianco and Horihito), had my knees tattooed (Ben Wahh and Seth Ciferri), had the back of my neck (Grime), the back of my left knee (Chris O'Donnell), my right outer calf (Adam Barton), my collarbone area (Emma at Porcupine), and my right side from armpit to ankle (Larry Davis) my left outer calf (Ben Wahhh), and my left armpit to knee (Timothy Hoyer) tattooed up until I finished my last major piece in 2004? Or was it 2005? I can't remember. Blair also branded my stomach back in 2001.
I fell asleep for 2 hours until some assholes woke me up by blasting their shitty music at midnight. This week has consisted of leaving home at 6:30 am and not getting home until 8:30 or 9:30 pm. It's commuting, school stuff for 8 hours + 2 hours at the gym, then commuting home. Needless to say, I'd like to get my sleep. Thanks to those fucking assholes, I can no longer fall asleep again tonight. I guess it's a combination of them and insomnia and pissiness at them for waking me up.
I'm hoping 3 mg of xanax + 1/2 a glass of red wine will knock me the fuck out for a few hours because I have to work 4-midnight tomorrow and then 10-6 the next day. Basically, I have no days off again until November or December - back to my 7 days a week of hectic shittiness. So you can see why sleep is important to me if I want to stay healthy. Nothing like abusing drugs. I wish I had a prescription for Ambien. Maybe I'll ask my doc.
Fucking fucks.
I'm hoping 3 mg of xanax + 1/2 a glass of red wine will knock me the fuck out for a few hours because I have to work 4-midnight tomorrow and then 10-6 the next day. Basically, I have no days off again until November or December - back to my 7 days a week of hectic shittiness. So you can see why sleep is important to me if I want to stay healthy. Nothing like abusing drugs. I wish I had a prescription for Ambien. Maybe I'll ask my doc.
Fucking fucks.
Damn it's Friday already. School started again on Wednesday and it's painful and tedious but it's my last year in Pharmacy school. Then you can all call me "doctor." Pfft - whatever, I would never have someone call me doctor. In my mind, being called doctor is reserved for actual MDs.
I'm tired and rotations throughout different hospitals is sort of rough right now. I'm used to eating 4-6 meals a day and I'm only managing 3 meals and maybe a snack. My total calorie intake is probably under 2000 but I'm still working out about 8 hours a week or more. I'm trying to keep it about 8 hours or more simply because I feel like I'll decondition more if I don't maintain that many hours. I typically eat anywhere from 2500-3000 (for really heavy workout weeks) calories a day. 2000-2500 is enough to maintain my weight. Right now, I'm joking about school being my crash diet because I'm in a hospital and you can't just eat wherever or whenever you want. And by the time I get out, I can't eat a meal because I am off to the gym. So between lunch and dinner, 7 hours can pass. It's pretty crazy. Maybe I'll drop down to 120 but that would be a perfect weight if I were going to start fighting.
Tonight was spent in 2 Muay Thai classes. The first was technique work but I felt tired and unfocused and generally blah so my technique sucked. The second class was a conditioning class consisting of 30 second drills on the heavy bag with 30 seconds off etc. etc. It's sort of tedious to go into. Because I've been running 2+ miles 3-4 times a week now on top of 30-40 minutes on the bicycle or the elliptical, I've noticed that my cardio is much better. I wasn't winded at all during the 30 second drills. My legs were sort of sore so my leg speed sucked but my hand speed was fine. It's fun.
Other than that, I've been super distracted because I just want to get laid hardcore. The funny thing is that I'm in a relationship but it's going on 5 years and we're suffering the dreaded "lesbian bed death." When she wants sex, I don't. When I want sex, she has no sex drive. Go figure. I don't want to date anyone else, I just want a good roll in the sack.
I'm tired and rotations throughout different hospitals is sort of rough right now. I'm used to eating 4-6 meals a day and I'm only managing 3 meals and maybe a snack. My total calorie intake is probably under 2000 but I'm still working out about 8 hours a week or more. I'm trying to keep it about 8 hours or more simply because I feel like I'll decondition more if I don't maintain that many hours. I typically eat anywhere from 2500-3000 (for really heavy workout weeks) calories a day. 2000-2500 is enough to maintain my weight. Right now, I'm joking about school being my crash diet because I'm in a hospital and you can't just eat wherever or whenever you want. And by the time I get out, I can't eat a meal because I am off to the gym. So between lunch and dinner, 7 hours can pass. It's pretty crazy. Maybe I'll drop down to 120 but that would be a perfect weight if I were going to start fighting.
Tonight was spent in 2 Muay Thai classes. The first was technique work but I felt tired and unfocused and generally blah so my technique sucked. The second class was a conditioning class consisting of 30 second drills on the heavy bag with 30 seconds off etc. etc. It's sort of tedious to go into. Because I've been running 2+ miles 3-4 times a week now on top of 30-40 minutes on the bicycle or the elliptical, I've noticed that my cardio is much better. I wasn't winded at all during the 30 second drills. My legs were sort of sore so my leg speed sucked but my hand speed was fine. It's fun.
Other than that, I've been super distracted because I just want to get laid hardcore. The funny thing is that I'm in a relationship but it's going on 5 years and we're suffering the dreaded "lesbian bed death." When she wants sex, I don't. When I want sex, she has no sex drive. Go figure. I don't want to date anyone else, I just want a good roll in the sack.
