Exhausted

My body is on the edge of completely giving up on me, mainly because I have endeavored to find new ways of self torture. Right now, I am basically working four jobs: my metabolic project in the lab, my Perfect water project in the lab (which I now cannot discuss), my hospital job, and finally my LTC job. Combined, these four take about 45-50 hours per week. On top of that, I have my biochemistry project that I really need to work on and then I have my French to do, which combined take another 5-10 hours per week.

All of this increases my level of stress significantly, and because of the stress and the amount of time I spend on all of this, I have sort of stopped eating. I was counting calories yesterday and I took in a grand total of 1100 calories. 20 year old men are supposed to have between 2500 and 3000 per day. Today, it's noon, and I've so far had about 350 calories. I won't be eating anything until at least 7 PM tonight.

Suffice it to say that because of all these factors, my weight has dropped. At the beginning of the month I weighed about 162. When I went to the cardiologist yesterday, they weighed me, and I'm down to 150.

Speaking of cardio stuff, my heart has been really icky the last three days. I went for a bike ride and a walk two days ago and when I was done, my body shut down. All that I could feel was this seriously irregular heartbeat.

In happier news, I am done with another cell line this week, which means I'm done completely with three and almost done with a fourth. Two weeks from this one I'll be finishing three cell lines, which will get me to 6 out of 20. My hope is that by the end of the semester, I'll have 10-15 done. No guarantees there, of course. I think though, since I have a year to do 14 cell lines, I should be able to get those done. I mean, so far, it's taken me about three months to get this many done.

I also am going to have some signficant pay increases, hopefully. Since I'm helping to teach a course, I get paid $2000. On top of that, the water people might be supplementing my pay.

In the end though, all of this is killing me. I am behind universally. I'm almost a chapter behind in French, and I totally missed a 25 point assignment in a class with 800. Fortunately, I had some extra credit floating around which made up for about 15 points worth. But the thing is that I should not be missing any assignments.

I'm about two days behind in one lab notebook and about two months behind in another. I'm two weeks behind on my biochemistry (not my fault though, the computer was fucked up). I direly need a vacation, but unfortunately, that's not happening anytime soon.

I'm just hoping right now that all this work does not physically kill me.

Tomorrow's fun chat involves MONEY!!!