I just encountered the most exciting hand drier of my life.

Today has been very confusing.

Since Saturday literally all I have done is wake up, go to the library, go home, eat dinner, go to the library, go home, sleep.
Muchos muchos deadlines.
BUT today is the last of the aforementioned deadlines.
BUT whilst celebrating the end of my essay writing, I drank too much and forgot to sleep. Essentially, finished essay at about 10pm. Came home, drank wine, hung out with Dickie. Finished wine, started on vodka. Dickie went to sleep. Brain said 'let's watch a film before we go to bed!' I agreed, not realising it was already 4am. Film finished, it was daylight.
SO. Being that I had to hand in this essay, AND that the drop-box for my essay is two miles from my flat, AND that I haven't been to a lecture for a long time, instead of doing the sleepy thing, I begun my day.

Since then I have showered, gone to Starbucks, read some book in Starbucks, drank A FUCKING HUGE COFFEE (that is kinda making me feel like I'm about to die), bumped into my bro, Max - who was up early because it's his girlfriend's birthday and he was buying all sorts of exciting ingredients to make her breakfast in bed because he is literally THE sweetest, bought Easter eggs for all my flatmates, tidied my room, walked to KB, entered KB library for the first time EVER, encountered their wondrous hand driers, and wrote this blog?

Anyway. Since I have last seen you...
I dunno. Stuff?
These days mostly library and flat-hunting.
And cooking. Fucking love cooking.

Did a three-course dinner on Friday:
Mushroom soufflé with vine roasted tomatoes and a rocket salad.
HANDMADE spinach and ricotta ravioli in red pesto on a bed of asparagus.
And a trio of desserts: lemon and yoghurt fool, poached pears in red wine and chocolate brownies.


FUCK YEAH.

Afterwards we drank lots and invented the best parlour game EVER.
It's like charades, but essentially you need a music playing device, and some good headphones.
You are given a song, and must then listen to said song whilst acting out the lyrics - everyone else must guess the song. Much fun.

CHRIST. I feel unusual.
Kinda drunk, quite hungover, very caffeine, also sleepy.
ARGH. I have a double lecture in half an hours time. This shall not go well.

BUUTTTTTT, whilst drunk last night I decided on an honours for definite.
And it issssss..... GENETICS.
Which, I realise is what I went to Uni to do in the first place. But I assure you, there was some wavering in the middle.
But yeah, my hand-in today was a genetics report, and I enjoyed writing it, and telling everyone about it, and thinking about it, so I believe this is a good sign and I should do it.
Definitely genomics is the way to go.

But yeaaaaah... still need a title for my essay. After that I may well just go home. Do not think I can survive the day. Literally only came into the library because I assumed it would be empty and I could find somewhere to sleep.
What is it with all this people, working?
Blargahtrgahrjfbshgah.

This is the picture I just sent to my Jubs.

 I think it sums up how I'm feeling.

I should've mentioned.
Me and flatmate John realised that we were both called Jubs from a young age. Which is peculiar. As people aren't usually called Jubs.
As such we agreed we are probably one person. A symbiotic entitity: the JUBS.

I'm playing draw my thing on the big TV in the lounge because I am all alone in the house. All my housemates have finished for easter and left me on my own. I haven't seen another human being for 36 hours. Shit sucks.

I have lectures and boring things all week but then I am home and I can't wait to see everyone.

A few weeks ago I entered the Bristol 10K. I have been running 3 times a week for the last 2 weeks and its going okay. I ran 8.05km yesterday which is a personal best. It's not for another 4 weeks so I think I have time.

Nothing at all to report. You guys should blog.

Blogging on a weekly basis

I made this Venn diagram to illustrate why everyone should start up posting again. If it doesn't convince you I don't know what will.

This week I worked a lot a did little else. The presentation went pretty well on Monday. Nailed the timing and I think what I talked about was vaguely relevant so should be ok.

We had mock OSCEs (objective structured clinical exam) this week. You go around a load of 10 minute "stations". At each one you are given a task to complete. So you walk around a room each time someone blows a whistle and perform whatever they ask of you. They can be history taking, clinical examination or clinical skills based. It was pretty stressful but I passed all the stations and it useful to see how it all worked out. I'm fairly sure it’s going to be the most stressful type of exam when we have to do it for reals.

Spent all weekend finishing writing up and following up patients. I actually had to go into hospital today because I didn't have all the information I needed on some stuff. It sucked. I have just finished everything up now though, it is a nice feeling knowing it is all done.

This week I have nothing particularly excited planned. Going out for housemate Andy's birthday on Tuesday to a Indian restaurant which is byo alcohol, I don't really know the etiquette on how much it is acceptable to drink at such establishments.

I have listened to the Yellowcard album Ocean Avenue on repeat all day, it is seriously fantastic, I had forgotten just how much I enjoyed it.

I wanted to post something cool in this blog but found couldn't think of anything good. So, here is the first video I ever favourited on youtube.

WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT

Woah, long time no blog.

Things that have happened since my last post way back on the 9th of December:

• Christmas - it was fun, I saw you guys
• New Year - as above
• Did exams - I totally passed all my psychiatry stuff, oh yeah!
• Lived in Bristol again - Started in scary big boy hospital, it is going okay
• Matt's birthday - it snowed like a motherfucker but my little car made it to Cheltenham and we hung out so hard
• Joanne's birthday - as above but without the snow
• Met John Green - He did a talk and Hank sang some songs and we met them and they signed my book
• Saw Frightened Rabbit - visited Kerry in Exeter and saw frabbit, they were excellent
• My birthday - I am now 21, its not bad so far
• Wrote this blog

And that is you pretty much up to date with all the significant happenings in my life for the last 3 months.

I have to give a presentation first thing tomorrow and I have no idea how it will go because I have no idea what they really wanted me to do or how its going to be assessed, so yeah, that will be fun.

I am looking forward to Easter in a few weeks time. When are you all home? I'm only back for a week which sucks. I hope our holidays coincide.

BYE