Sunday, October 12, 2003
I'm home in Auckland for one all too short weekend - a conference this time, as all of us need to catch up on the latest knowledge, meet fellow trainees, and schmooze up to bosses. As could be reliably predicted Auckland has turned on a display of its finest weather ie. wet, cloudy and cold, to welcome the visitors from Oz I had hopes of showing off my home to. Oh well. It's still beautiful. The Sky Tower (which I have gradually warmed to) is all lit up in pink, and this evening the top of it disappeared into a pink-tinged cloud just as the dusk was making the sky dark baby-blue. It looked like something out of Lord of the Rings.
The conference is on sleep medicine, and given many delegates arrived the night before at 2 am it seemed topical that one of the first sessions was on how chronic sleep deficit affected people doing important tasks. I mused that paediatric registrars are a group well worth studying for this topic, though you wouldn't be able to recruit any subjects because none of us are going to agree to missing out on any more sleep than we are already doing. True to the spirit of this research, I am returning to Oz on Monday afternoon, just in time to do some housework then head off to night shift. Ah, the glamour and the joy.
email me: piokiwi@yahoo.com.au
Piokiwi 12:14 am
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