My First All-Nighter

In our PBL classes (the three hour class that's done in the Problem Based Learning style, when we dissect case studies and review each others' work) we have to tell the group what we'd do differently on our next assignment. Without fail, I always say time management. Time is my worst enemy and this week is living proof of that.

I knew this week was going to be rough. I had an editing project that I had to get done for my last job so I stayed up until 4am Tues/Wed finishing it so I can put it behind me and focus on school. Needless to say, I ended up sleeping late, until noon or so. This is bad because I have a Learning Objective, assigned Tuesday, that I have to research, write a 3-5 page paper on, and post by 7pm on Thursday. This wouldn't have been a problem if I didn't volunteer with the SPARX program to do vision and hearing screenings at a Head Start program tomorrow. Not only did that require that I go to a training on Wednesday night, but it means I lose about 4 hours of time to work on my Learning Objective (and since I signed up for this activity before I knew how crazy my schedule would be, I'm also scheduled to do one next Wednesday, yikes!).

I had to make up the time somehow, so I stayed up all night. Well, I'm trying to anyway. It's 4:54am now...I feel like a nap might be more productive at this point than 2 hours of sleep. The good news is, I think my post is in pretty good shape. The bad news is, I have to spend my afternoon trying to assess the vision and hearing of a group of 3.5 year olds. By that point, I might be on the verge of passing out. I hope I don't let any blind or deaf children fall through the cracks! Thank god Seattle is the Coffee Capital of America.

Oh, and Kate is coming to visit tomorrow so that's good too. I just hope she doesn't mind tucking in early - her jet lag should be useful on that front.

Now that I've procrastinated, I'll post this video about drug resistant TB, a major public health issue, presented in a very compelling way: