What are you like in the morning?

I've never had time to be cranky in the morning; never had the time to be lazy either. In school I was always up with the sun, dad's orders. College was the same and that was because of me not dad. Even after a late night of studying there was no excuse to be late to an 8 am class, I had a lot of 8 am classes. In med school you never really knew when it was morning or night. There was no night and day there was class, work, studying and sleep.

While I was in residency it was mostly the same, on call, in surgery or sleeping. Morning was relative in that time of my life. It wasn't when I woke up, it was when the sun rose and sometimes I hadn't been to sleep yet. Still there was no choice on how you could be when you woke up, you had to be ready, had to be alert otherwise people died. There is no question.

On the island it's mostly the same. Either I wake up to press a button that I'm not even sure why I'm pressing it or I have to deal with someone's rash or sprain and sometimes worse injuries. I just keep going, head to the beach and the caves and the hatch, try to keep order and then finally sleep and do it all over again the next day.