The Night Shift
November 21st, 2008 by PotatoI do all of my scanning at night, largely because patients with an actual medical need get priority on the MRI, and nights are the only slack times they have. I lean a little towards the nocturnal to begin with, but now I don’t get home until 4 am (or 8 am if I manage to fill all my slots), so I’m completely nocturnal. I wasn’t minding too much through the summer, because when I’d finally wake up around 3 or 4 in the afternoon, I’d still have a nice amount of daylight left. But now I wake up and it’s dark. I get like half an hour of daylight, and it’s a dreary rainy cloudy sort of daylight at that. I routinely sleep through so much of the day, and stay inside for the majority of the remainder, so I never thought I’d say this: but I miss the sun.
Things are not helped by the fact that everyone online is going to bed so early these days. 5 years ago I could pretty reliably find someone online to chat or play WarCraft III with until at least 1 am, but now my contact list clears out by 10. Stupid grown-up life and real jobs… I need to make some Japanese friends.