um, is 'awkward' the right word for this?

i just woke up from a nap. i can never get enough sleep. i could always sleep more. i so wish i could just sleep more...

whenever i take naps in the afternoon, i always wake up feeling like i'm wearing one of those fishbowl space helmets. it's like there's the world and there is me, and something has come between us. i actually have been taking more naps this school year than ever before in my life, and i'll say that they've mostly been really nice. i haven't actually arisen as an astronaut in quite a while.

in class today we all had to get naked.
well, only partly. we had to take off the clothes and put on one of those horrible hospital gowns and practice listening to each others lung sounds.
this is the kind of thing you really wish you knew about BEFORE getting to class. i mean, it's awkward enough to take your clothes off in front of the kid who you'll see in lecture the next day, but then to be thinking about all the ways you wish you could have better "prepared" for the occasion...
i guess that for the rest of the quarter we are meant to just show up expecting to get naked at any moment. how many of you can say that about your programs? at the end of the quarter, we will have to perform a full head-to-toe examination for the final. on another student. in front of our professors. you know how they tell you to overcome your nerves by imaging that really important person in their underwear?
uw got it backwards.


"monsieur dunning est monte sur le toit et refuse categoriquement de descendre."
-ernest hemingway, "a moveable feast."