I am mentally and physically exhausted right now. The mental part is because I have been doing a full-court press to completed the liver portion of our huge CO study. This involves lots of studies, and even more western blots than I want to contemplate right now. I am really frustrated because certain members of my group do nothing on this study, yet get to travel to the giant meeting about it in Poland. The more 12+ hour days I put in, the more angry I get.

I am physically exhausted because I am not getting much sleep. I blame two key people in this: Matt and Mr. Thomas O'Mally. The cat doesn't know any better, but Matt does. And yet both of them are taking turns either keeping me up at night or waking me up because 2-4 AM in the morning (or doing both in one night). With the I-35W bridge accident, I have been having to get on the 7:10 am bus to get to lab. This means that I have to eat breakfast, pack my lunch, shower, and be out of the door by 7:05am every day. Matt is home all day, yet he lacks the ability to plan a mean for dinner. This adds "prep for PM meal" to the list. That means that I have to wake up by 5:30am every morning. I get to bed around 10PM, but Matt, Tommy, or the combo make it hard for me to sleep before 11:30. Therefore, I only get 2 hours of uninterrupted sleep a night! It is time for something to change....I can't take too much more of this. I get home at 7:30 most nights. By the time I make dinner, eat, and do the work tasks I need to do to function the next day, it is time to sleep again. I can't prepare for the next day any more than I do. ARRRRR!

Enough ranting for today. I just needed to get this stuff off my chest. Back to data analysis.