It's a day off, and those don't amount to much lately. I almost never go outside. This afternoon, after sleeping in too long (again), I realized that the sun hadn't touched my skin for a few days (again). So I brushed the webs off the sides of my little swinging chair, moved it to a warm spot on the grass, and sat there maybe fifteen minutes. One of my nursing instructors said fifteen minutes is what our bodies need to synthesize vitamin D. I think I read the same thing online somewhere. Sounds right. I've been pretty good about popping a daily multivitamin. It's the other stuff I can't be bothered with when I get like this--drinking enough water to flush it through, eating a few bites to aid the absorption of the fat soluble ones, remembering that daylight is a thing.

Oh, there it is--literally as I type--a direct text from my lead asking me to pick up tonight. To be resource. I told her I will cover breaks. 11pm to 3am. I'm fizzling out. Haven't been sleeping well. My back hurts. What else can I say.