I did two stupid things in a row, it seems.
Wednesday I mentioned that we seldom have disasters, and then we had one.
Last night I answered the phone without checking the caller ID.
Well, I have an excuse: I thought that it was Karen. She'd told me when I talked to her earlier that she would be home pretty much on time, and she was late... I thought that she was calling to have me meet her somewhere.
But no... it was my supervisor. My counterpart wasn't able to come to work, so she wanted to know if I would. I hemmed and hawed and finally said OK, I'd come in at 23:00 if she'd come in at 05:00 so that I could go home.
It was, of course, too late for me to try to get any sleep. And I did go in at 22:00, just because I didn't really have anything else to do. And I did, as usual lately, run my ass off.
O'yeah... those two days that I called in? They weren't busy at all, at all. How unjust this world is.
So anyhoo, 05:00 came and the supervisor came in. I was way behind, of course, and there were still patients to do, including two CT scans (which my supervisor couldn't do.) I stayed until about 06:45.
Now I have to figger out how to do the rest of the day... when to sleep, so that I can maximize my time with Karen? I told her to wake me up when she gets home, and I probably need to get at least four hours of sleep before then. But if I go to sleep now, I won't wake up by myself, and I'll sleep eight hours. On the other hand, I'm surely not going to accomplish anything by staying awake, even assuming that I can actually stay awake.
I might just split the difference and go to sleep at 11:00... yeah, that's it. I know that I can't make it until 13:00, but I can stay awake until 11:00.
Maybe. And maybe I won't be able to go to sleep at all.
O'well. Something will happen, and I'll make the best of it, whatever it is.