I'm sorry Juliet, I was waaaaay drunk last Sunday night, my usual blogging time.

Well, it is the end of my ridiculously short Easter holiday. I have done very little other than sleeping and drinking. Not a bad way to spend a week I must say.

I've done lots more running since my last blog and actaully managed to run 10.12km in 57 minutes yesterday, I was very pleased and not even too tired, go me. My orginal plan was to run the actual race in under an hour, but as its still 3 weeks away, perhaps I can do it a bit faster than that.

In recent education news, I have performed this procedure several times on a rubber butt. My life is nothing if not glamorous:

I too enjoyed the GoT season 3 premiere. I managed to work my way through the last 5 episodes of season 2 over last weekend and I have actually got into the show properly now. Because I watched season 1 over such a prolonged period of time, I never really got into it. Also, I am nearly done with Dance With Dragons, I had meant to finish it this week, but sleeping got in the way of that. This coming week I will try my best to get it done.

I had planned on going back to uni this evening but it turns out I don't have anything on until tomorrow lunch time so I'm going back then instead. I will have the house to myself for 2 weeks which sucks. It does mean I have sole control of the thermostat though, shit is gonna be toasty as fuck. I will also have my car with me so will most probably be making the journey back to Swindon if exciting things are happening.

I'm going to see Jim Lockey et al. next weekend in Cheltenham with Chris which should be really fun. They've just come back from supporting the Dropkick Murphys in America which was a huge deal for them so I expect his show will be pretty nuts.

My Dad just called me downstairs in an excited voice. Turns out he's spent the afternoon training the wild ducks which occasionally visit our garden and now they're in the kitchen. Why you may ask, his answer: "because I could".

Want to see something interesting. Go here and fill this in and see how your opinions compare with other peoples from all round the world. Its super sad how low a priority climate change is to most people.
http://www.myworld2015.org/

Ben Marwood fans should watch and listen to this song and video, both are ace.

See you soon.

Wow. Poor show guys.

And by guys I obviously mean Will.

Test tomorrow.
It's a practical exam, and there's no past papers.
Eight topics total with a choice of five. Only actually attended sessions for four of the topics, so this should be fun.
So far have been assembling notes for six of them, and think I shall leave it at that.
I imagine this is going to be a nightmare.
Worth 25%, no idea what to expect, or how to revise.
But, it is my last piece of in-course assessment this term, so after tomorrow it's just pure revision! Yaaay.

Spent the weekend in Newcastle, Uncle's birthday, sorting out my Grandpa's house / scattering ashes etc...
(Yeah - not sure how many people I mentioned it to. My Grandpa died back at the start of term, followed a week later by Salem / Bailey / Mischief - whatever name you might've known my cat by. That plus a whole load of FUCKING POINTLESS drama has made this term kinda unpleasant. But yay, bitches be crazy. And hopefully out of my life by next semester.)

Can't remember if I mentioned, we have a new flat? Haven't actually seen it yet, but this rather wonderful photograph by Dickie I think illustrates it quite well:

Don't know why he chose to take it as a selfie. Or why he's biting his lip. Or why he decided to snapshot the letting agent.

Also, here's the floorplan I made him draw when we were drunk:

Most exciting news of the week - obviously, is the return of Game of Thrones. :D
Best Monday ever, and thankfully many more to come.

Currently finishing off series two of American Horror Story with John. Which is glorious and you should all watch it because it has lots of bum and Zachary Quinto.

And yeah. Am in the library, as per usual. So should probably go back to working before I face any further judgement.
BAI.

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.