Holy dicks, I am free.

I had exams this week, I don't know how they went; maybe ok, maybe bad. I do not want to think about them any more.

On Thursday I went to the Savoy and drank far more than my 2 months sober body should have. I think we went to Groove, I think I danced, I know I fell over. On Friday morning I felt terrible. It was awesome.

I played cricket on Saturday and it was such a glorious day and we played at such a nice pitch and everything was beautiful. We won by miles and I scored lots of runs and then we had a barbecue. Again, it was awesome.

I have been looking forward to free time to so that I can read books again. The thing is I have 3 or 4 books I started over the last few months and then never got around to finishing. Now I can't remember what's going on in any of them but can't be bothered to re read the starts of them. Maybe I should just start another one.

I'm excited to go to Kerry's later this week. I have to be home on Saturday to go to the Olympics on Sunday but that's OK, still 2 nights of Exeter fun times.

I have the house to myself until early tomorrow evening if anyone wants to come over and hang out in the garden and maybe go for a walk in the countryside.

See you soon!

Stealing Friday in Thursday's name

The last two weeks have been incredibly hectic. Ma famíle came to visit last Thursday through to Sunday with my sister staying in my toom. and then on Monday, Lily got here and literally just left.  Now on Monday (I think it's Monday) all the third years are coming down for their graduation and I knew quite a few of them so two guys are crashing in my room.  It's good seeing people, but I just need some time to myself now, after all my moaning about the isolation of Penryn the last time I blogged I seem to be eating my words.  Just a room to myself would be nice, but I have the next couple of days before the next visitation.

Went to work stupidly hungover on Tuesday and now my bosses are really funny with me, but I've stopped caring.  I only see them for 4-6 hours at a time and we don't get much of a chance to speak so I'm just going to carry on pretending they don't exist.

I hear trees was super awesome.  But like Juliet said, all the cool kids missed it this year.  Did you guys see The Futureheads A Capella? I really like how the pictures of your gazebo thing start off really tidy and it looks like you're all on a pleasant camping holiday and as you flick through the albums it gets dirtier and dirtier and the place fills up with beer cans and waste.  That's how trees should be done, you've made me proud.

Here's a song for you

OH MY GOD! Sarah just got back from work and she bought loads of free pasties!!! YUS!

I'd love to stay and chat but I have to go and gorge on pasties, plus the tide goes out soon and I feel like goin' fishin'.

Don't worry, Will. All the coolest kids missed Trees this year.

Thursday I saw Electrick Children with Pete for FREE (yay Slackers Club) and it was fantastic.

On Friday I had a curry at Brogan and Amanda's new flat, then went to the pub with Faye, Sam and Ewan.

Saturday I met everyone for lunch at Teviot, then sat in the Meadows - because IT WAS SUNNY.

Sunday I played badminton with Pete, Gav and Charlotte, then had a dinner party with them + Faye, in which I cooked the bestest food, and managed to get an unholy level of drunk. Everyone but Faye left at about midnight and the two of us then stayed up till 6am getting slaughtered whilst dancing badly and singing too loudly to the likes of Moulin Rouge / Madonna / George Michael etc. When she left I decided to finish what was left of the alcohol and then vomited. Lots.

Monday I got up, fully intending to go to work. Ended up going to the other flat to thieve pain killers then passed out in Pete's bed. Was woken up by a topless Pete walking into the room and screaming. Entirely missed work, spent the evening with John, Charlotte and Pete watching Community and vomiting.

Somehow my hangover carried on into Tuesday, where I went to work and broke everything. Took a long lunch and afterwards managed to fix most of the things. But thank fuck my supervisor is on holiday this week.

Afterwards I met Charlotte, Pete and Gav plus Scott and Fraser (who are over from Glasgow) at the pub and had a lovely time.

I have yet to clean the flat since the dinner party. I have no plates and no cutlery, but an astounding number of empty wine bottles.

And I have finally registered for my third year modules. Hoping that it's not too late, despite being two months past the deadline.

Went for:

First semester: Pharmacology / Molecular Genetics / Evolutionary and Ecological Genetics

Second semester: Genomes and Genomics / Brain and Behaviour / Developmental Biology

Fingers crossed they actually let me take them.


Am actually missing home a lot right now.
It's lovely up here, and work is good. But making plans is really frustrating.
Gav and Charlotte tend to work evening shifts, so by the time I get home they've gone to work. And despite the fact that Pete is doing nothing he is irritatingly difficult to get hold of.
I want my flatmates back. Or I want to be in Swindon. Either would be nice, please, thanks.
I'm sick of sitting in my flat on my own.

So I missed trees and that was pretty shitballs. I hope everyone that went had a good time though!

I'm in my house in Bristol at the moment doing last minute revision for the 2 exams I have tomorrow.

I do not feel prepared. I'm going to drink coffee and revise some more now in an attempt to feel more confident by tomorrow morning.

I'm scared.

Love you.

Today I dissected the spinal cord out of a mouse.

All for a good cause. I swears.

I have learnt that science is mostly about repetition.
But I still enjoy it.

My supervisor is away all next week, so I'm gonna attempt to make some science bros whilst he's away.
I'm on smiling terms with a few people, chatting terms with a few others.
One of the guys runs the Pharmacology honours course at Edinburgh Uni, he's currently testing the electro-physiological properties of nerves grown from stem cells. He showed me his rig and all, pretty damn awesome.
Trying not to be swayed into Pharmacology. Trying to decide between Genetics and Neuroscience is hard enough without adding another subject into the mix.
Haven't picked my third year modules yet. Might get on that actually. Supposed to have registered for them about a month ago.

Spent the weekend in Aberfoyle with Pete and his mum. The weather was awful so only managed one brief walk, but watched lots of tennis.
And just saying, the men's doubles final was adorable! It's sad that no one seems to care. WILD CARD ENTRANTS. RANKED IN THE HUNDREDS. WON A WIMBLEDON TROPHY!!
Everyone keeps going on about having a brit in the finals, and one went ahead and won the doubles and no one noticed.

Listened to a lot of Mountain Goats today.
I used to think they were a one-trick-pony, but I've managed to look past my overwhelming love for No Children and listen to some of their other songs, and they sure do have some lovely albums.

Oh, and I finished all of Grey's Anatomy. Need a new series. Recommendations?