My Family is Staging an Intervention

late for church, so i'll be quick. i have already heard from my grandmother and mother-in-law about my last post and my hesitation (total paralyzing fear) of going through child birth. they both assured me that it is an amazing, worthwhile experience, one that i do not want to miss out on. i am sure i will agree. there is no doubt that at some point i will jump on that mommy train and squirt out a few of my own. perhaps i should pick a different discipline to practice in so i do not have daily reminders of the difficulty of the birthing process. if i was working in dermatology, for example, i would probably blissfully and ignorantly proceed w/ pregnancy without a second thought to the travails of childbirth.

also, i will not actually STEAL a child, so no one need put the amber alert people on speed dial. :)

addendum: i am on my first 24-hr shift tomorrow- meaning i will start at 6:30 am (regular time) and go until tuesday morning at about 8:00am (after the morning meeting). then i will go home to sleep. assuming i can still find my way home after that many hours w/o sleep. i'm actually really excited to get some 1-on-1 time w/ the preceptors and have more to do away from the abundance of other students. but ask me at about 4am tues morning if this is all still buttercups and roses and i'll probably throw my luke warm coffee in your face. do you think they'd mind if i showed up w/ a sleeping bag and pillow? i haven't stayed up all night since high school, and that was just at friends' houses at parties, never to do actual studying or work. i could never pull all-nighters in under grad and certainly not last year during my didactic work. i am a pro-sleep type of gal. i just remember at those high school parties getting really giddy and slap-happy around 2am and finding words like "pants" to be reaaaaaally funny. so if any of my ex-boyfriends get a call late tomorrow night and all you hear is giggling and then a dial tone, it's not me, i swear.