So, I’m being a slug. I’m really bad about my university application, I think I’ve not done anything like that for so long that it’s taking me quite a while to get around to it. Which is a bit of a pig. Or more accurately, it’s taking me a long time to get into it. I’d forgotten how hard I find making myself sound good on an application.
And making myself sound like a desirable candidate when my degree results don’t really tally with that. But really, my dad died and UWE told me that was insufficient reason to allow me to resubmit (2) essays without a 40% cap, which kinda screwed my final year.
One of them was scored at 85%, my rewrite, the highest in the year. Bitter? Me? With my 2:2? No, not at all. :-/
Anyhow, so I’m trying to get my brain fired up but I am so tired. I’ve had 4 lates in 5 days, and am going for my 5th late today (on the 6th day of a 7 day stretch of shifts). Yesterday I was seriously yawning and wandering around the place like some kind of lost fish – that was until we had a trauma patient, a ?MI (collapsed outside the hospital, literally, some other staff who were free ran out with a trolley to retrieve the poor person), septic/seizure/decreased conciousness level person, another septic person and someone who’s heart had opted to do an interesting rhythm, concurrent with them having a sudden and unexpected lie-down.
Since these all arrived within around an hour myself and the other resus nurse ended up nicking 2 other members of staff, because physically we could not actually get between the patients quick enough. The red-phone kept ringing and ringing and I started doing the laugh of the ‘no, seriously, you’ve got to be joking’ person.
It was still chaos when we left, but I was exhausted. And I’m feeling it this morning. Especially after a night of very unpleasant dreams. People kept dying in my dreams, I’m not sure whether to class them strictly as nightmares, but they were certainly very, very unpleasant and difficult to escape from. I curled myself around Kathryn’s sleeping figure and managed, eventually, to shake them off and sleep – but it wasn’t a restful night.
Yesterday was spent in conference with JLH – and we’ve got a plan of work – Rebecca’s hopefully going up there next week. And she’ll come back left hand drive, with rebuilt front and rear suspension, an all replaced transmission, a tidied engine bay…
…and something done about getting a locking door on the new driver’s side. Which should be ‘interesting’.
I need to dink with the vacuum pipes on Jejy, because someone pointed out that her attrocious pick-up might be related to an absence of Vacuum. I shall poke at them. I’m hoping it is the case, because that’s a really easy fix. A few feet of new pipe and we’ll be sorted.
Anyhow, I must get on, because I’ve been avoiding my application long enough :)
