Drowning

I'm drowning in my schoolwork. I have to be in the lab from 10 am to 5 pm from Tuesday to Friday and I have a report due on Friday. It's tough trying to find time to read all the journals when I am already mentally exhausted from the lab sessions. Seriously, this week is even busier than my usual timetable. So much for taking DNA & Protein Tech! I am looking forward to Saturday because it is an end to my hectic week and I would have submitted my report. Plus we (my housemates and I) are supposed to go to West End market which is somewhere I haven't been before.

I'm suffering from lack of sleep. I take 2-3 hour naps once I get back from the lab and then stay awake until 5-6 am doing my report before I try to sleep until 9 am. This is horrible and I'm always in a bad mood when I get down to the lab. I can actually feel my short-temperedness coming out and I get irritated by every small little thing. I try so hard to control myself from snapping at people in the morning, especially my housemates and my poor lab partner because I don't want to say anything I'll regret. Also, I know my annoyance is so ridiculous because the normal me would never be affected by those small little things...so this is what happens when people don't get enough sleep. No wonder there are so many grouchy and grumpy women in the workplace.

Seriously, I have high hopes for this report. I really did put in lots of effort for this, reading about 30 scientific journals and trying to figure out what the hell these researchers are talking about. It's no easy task and I hate looking at tables and graphs to interpretate the results, especially when they are explaining some process that I have no knowledge of. Damn I need to lower my expectations. It's always the most sucky feeling when you get a bad grade for something you worked your ass off for....I mean...look at the amount of sleep hours I sacrificed for this assignment - sleep happens to be one of the most important things in my life ok!!!