I’m sorry for my blogging absence last week, I just plain forgot.

My last 2 weeks have been reasonably interesting. Seen more surgeries and diagnosed more people, nothing crazy exciting though. I got shouted at by a surgeon on Thursday which wasn’t very nice, I didn’t even do anything wrong really. This week I have to give a presentation on seronegative spondyloarthropathies, fun fun fun.

I had last Friday free so I briefly went home on Thursday night to collect my TV and PS3. I then took them down to Bristol on Friday.  I bought Borderlands 2 and played that lots this weekend, the coop campaign mode is pretty darn fun.

On Saturday night I ate dinner with 4 out of 5 housemates which was lovely. I have a new housemate this year to introduce you to, her name is Rachel and she is from halls in first year but didn’t end up living with us last year, she has now seen the light and moved back in with us. She does Biology and is an all-round great person and a far better UBRUBer than I will ever be. This is her:

Do any of you have new people you're living with this year? If so, introduce them to us!

I think one day this week I am going to photoblog so you can see the hospital and stuff. Could you guys photoblog too? I would like to see your new third year routines.

Some would call drinking alone sad; I would call it an awesome commitment to the Mongooses. For future reference, 'Mongoose' is a quite acceptable tasting beer.

I hope you’re all well. I haven’t spoken to any of you properly for ages now. I am going to hit you up on facebook over the course of this week.

I like batman.

Night!

What a week

I'm so tired you guys!
Really getting into my course right now, everything is a lot more intense and interesting and somehow I've just stepped up my game immediately which is something that didn't happen the last two years.  I think I found my work ethic, which I thought might not ever happen.  It means that I get to the end of the working day and actually feel justified in chilling, so I can put on a film or go see Lily and not have to feel guilty.  It also means I get tired earlier but I've always been a bit of a pussy in that respect.

ANYWAY it's not been all work and no play, last night some friends and I went to the union to shake the post-lecture blues and ended up getting sufficiently drunk, I thought it was like 9 o' clock but then we got outside and it turned out to be about 4.  So, realising I had to be up early today I went home to sober up - we spent 5 hours straight playing Tony Hawk's and had no idea.  All levels unlocked, bitches.

Me and Lily went to visit Perranporth at the weekend which was really nice.  It's this little harbor town with a wall that sticks out right into the sea.  We went around the corner and walked along the three miles of beach and back, went crab lining off the end and then went to the pub.  I don't have a picture but I can assure you it was idyllic.

Miranda, I miss taking Frodo for walks.  I know I only did it twice, but sometimes when I'm coming home from Uni I take this path through the woods and it really feels like I should be walking your dog.

Juliet, I haven't heard from you in so long and I like hearing about your Edinventures, I'll give you a call at the weekend when Lily gives me back my phone.

Will, I hope you don't get any blood on you when watching people being cut up.  That'd be naaaasty.

David, I miss you.

That's about it you guys, I have nothing else to say.

P.S. Sorry for the lack of posts, you can all stop judging me now.

Buttery biscuit slut.

Went to Aberdeen with Oli and Charlotte for Rosie's big banging bargain birthday bucket.
Really really great weekend. Lots of drinking and games, went to a couple of clubs. Fun fun fun.
Hit the maritime museum on Sunday, best part was a timeline of oil, first entry was the use of oil to waterproof Noah's ark. No joke.
Monday I spent all night in the library as I had neglected to do a practical report. Mainly because I'd forgotten it existed, and have hence received my first late penalty of the year.
Spent Tuesday in the pub with Pete and Harry.
Today I watched far too much Great British Bake Off with Richard and Owen.
Made awesome food. Caramelised onions with mushrooms and sundried tomatoes, cooked in balsamic vinegar and paprika, served with green beans and roast potatoes with rosemary and thyme. (+ sausages for Richard.)
I have done very little work recently.
It is because I am lazy.
Did buy a nice dress today, got distracted by charity shops on the way to Lidl.

LATE

But it's not like anyone else was gonna post anyway.

Soooooo. Very lazy week. I don't want to do anything ever again.
Apathy is the best.

Although yesterday I cooked all the things. We had:
Home made falafels
Patatas bravas
Loaded potato skins with mushrooms, cheese and sour cream
Stuffed peppers with cous-cous, sundried tomatoes and grilled halloumi
Garlic mushrooms
Roasted aubergine stack with pesto and mozarella
Olives, sundried tomatoes
Bread with olive oil and balsamic vinegar
WHADDUP TAPAS

Feasted with Owen, Richard, Pete, Gavin, Harry, Mike, Oli and Charlotte then we played many drinking games, danced lots, drunk lots then went to Potterow where we picked up a very very drunken Sarah.
Good night.
Mike is the best dancer. Ever. Like seriously. He is the reincarnation of Jarvis Cocker. And it's wonderful.
(Although Jarvis isn't dead, so I am unsure of the repercussions of this.)

So. Yeah. Basically just been going to Uni, cooking, drinking and lazing around.
Went out for a curry with Pete on Tuesday.
Watched White Ribbon - awesome film - at Charlotte's a few days ago.
Watched The Other Guys at mine another night - also awesome.
Bought lots of second hand books.
Saw The Matrix at FilmSoc, had a Teviot dinner.
Had an AWESOME dinner at Bonsai followed by a mini pub crawl, and the worst attempt at going out ever. We walked into Liquid, looked around then left immediately.
Exciting.

Holy moley, it's a blog!

Me this morning:

This morning I thought there was a 99% chance I was dying because I felt so ill. Now the odds of me surviving are looking more like 50/50 which is hopeful. If you don’t want to feel this bad, don’t drink 2 bottles of wine and then be too drunk to go out and have to go to bed early.

I have been incredibly lax about my blogging lately. That ends today. Now that we are all separated I’ll try my best to get back into doing proper blogs.

So since my last real update all sorts of things have happened. I went to Reading, moved in to my new Bristol house, moved out of my new Bristol house, moved into my Taunton house, saw real life surgery, been covered in multiple bodily fluids, got a new bike, broke new bike, mended new bike, broke new bike again, broke car, mended car, broke car again, went to Exeter… and so on.

I am living in the halls of residence for Somerset College until the middle of January. It isn’t too bad, we have tiny rooms but they have en suites which is nice. The main downside is the internet being unusably slow whenever more than one person is on it. Luckily everyone goes home at the weekend so right now I can actually do things online!

I am really enjoying the hospital placement so far. We have clinics and seminars we have to attend, but there is tons of free time where we have to organise things to do ourselves. In most of my free time I have been going to the orthopaedic theatres to see bone surgery and stuff. So far I’ve watched 2 hip replacements, a metalwork removal and a tibiotalocalcaneal fusion. Orthopaedic surgery is pretty brutal but so so cool. Before this placement I had never even considered surgery as a thing I wanted to do, but having actually seen it, I am rather warming to the idea.

Last week I spent 2 days in A and E. The first day was really quiet and I got a bit bored and didn’t want to go back, but then on the second day it all kicked off. I saw a man with a collapsed lung come in and got to help the consultant re inflate it. Then I got to poke my fingers in a cut in a man’s head and touched his skull! It was great. I spent over 40 hours in the hospital last week though and it was so damn tiring I was going to bed at 9:30 each night.

I stayed the night with Kerry in Exeter yesterday. Her new house is super fancy; I didn’t want to touch anything in case I ruined it. I got way drunk and had to go to bed before going out time, I had a great sleep though.

This coming week I have less stuff going on which is nice. I have the day off tomorrow so I’m going to catch up on actually learning things. All this seeing cool things is fun, but it isn’t a great way to learn things, so I need to look up more about what I’ve seen in my own time.

I can’t think of much else to tell you about so I’ll leave it at that. I hope you are all settling back into uni now and you aren’t working too hard.

Miss you.