Receptors. Control centres of the cardiovascular system. Cardiovascular reflexes. Haemorrhage.

I'm revising.

I know it's early in the morning, so I don't really have anything so say but I'm in a malaise so blogging seems preferable to working.

I'm wearing my glasses.

Turns out my eyes have got a fuck ton worse. After revising all day with them on I took them off and literally was unable to see what people were saying to me on Facebook.

I'm gonna pretend that was because I was tired. Not because I'm blind.

BUT YEAH. One good thing about revising - the amount of music I get to catch up on.
So evidently I need some recommendations.

WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN LISTENING TO AND WHAT SHOULD I BE LISTENING TO?

It'll have to wait until December as I've used up all my Spotify hours, but that's like - tomorrow. Fuck.

I actually have 9 minutes left, but I'm saving that for the points in which my revision melancholy gets too much that there's nothing left for me other than repetitive listening to I Want the World to Stop (Belle and Sebastian. Good song.)

SO. Life.

I've realised why my blogs are so boring, I tend to have all my fun on Thursdays which I then forget about by the following Wednesday.

WAIT A SECOND

I saw Frank Turner on Friday. And you see! Totally forgot to tell you about that.

Saw him at the Barrowlands in Glasgow, then got back to Edinburgh a little overexcited and ended up going to the Hive until it closed.

Brought Georgie, Sarah, Rosalind, Richard, Pete and Owen along with me. And they all loved it! Which is a great success as Georgie was the only one who actually listens to him, and she only owns Love Ire and Song. But yay.

Although it was only me, Sarah and Georgie that went to Hive. Which is difficult as Hive is a creepy place, and I am no longer in a position to be creeped. We essentially formed an impenetrable huddle, within which we danced, drunk and were merry. (Lots of dancing, as we were in the second room which always plays 'alternative anthems' and sometimes you just really are in the mood for Blink 182.)

Got my secret santa name yesterday, and frankly - too easy. Bitch gon' be pleased.

(When I drink tea my glasses steam up. Who knew?)

UPDATTE

My flatmates ate cooking lasagne so I reckon tonight is gonna be right awesome.

sincxe last we spoke i decided too sack the rest of today and went to my friends art exhibition and enjoyed the free alcohol. now i am going tio eat lasagne and go out.

today i got some really good news. I shall tell you in person and no on internet,.

But believe me. this news is good and shall excuse the drinking in the afternoon.

:D

HPPY ST ANDREWS DAY

HIVE HIVE HIVE (is where I'm at tonight)

I had a crazy dream that I weighed less than a thousandth of a gram. I was like, 0mg!

This afternoon at my computer sitting

Learning the tests for oedema pitting

I think to myself what could be more fitting

Than preparing a poem for next Sunday’s blog

It’s Tuesday right now but I don’t mind admitting

That by Sunday evening at the time of submitting

I’ll be so exhausted from all the streets I’ve been hitting

That when I get in I will sleep like a log

You see most of the weekend I will be transmitting

Myself along train lines for visits quite flitting

From Pewsey to Warwick I will be visiting

Friends and family and of course, my dog

On Thursday night at a show most befitting

I’ll be seeing some friends and most likely sipping

Far too much beer and then contemplate quitting

Drinking so much that I feel sick as a dog

I’ll then travel back westwards for lectures unremitting

Where I’ll sit in dark classrooms and think of resitting

As so much I should know, from my brain is omitting

and the notes I’ve not read form a massive backlog

When Sunday arrives I will be committing

My time to my great aunt, traffic permitting

As I travel up north for a visit quite flitting

For a family gathering in the Warwickshire fog

You may be wondering why I have chosen such an odd rhyme scheme or why some of the rhymes are so shit, my answer is because fuck you, that’s why.

SO NOW IT’S SUNDAY.

I’m going to see Billy Bragg tomorrow, you jelly David?

Anyway, my weekend was beautiful and seeing people was the best.Ben Marwood is a nice guy and David’s was lovely, I am sleepy now.

Love you guys.

You guys write lots.

Blah. Now I feel obliged to respond.

But. So. Lazy.

Switzerland was amazing.

Arrived on Friday morning, me and Krissy drank solidly from lunch till whenever we went home, on the way befriended a gang of Swiss students in an Irish Bar who took us to an anarchist bar. (Apparently anarchy in Switzerland means getting high indoors.) Which was actually pretty cool.

Krissy was pretty mortal and in the taxi back kept giving her Cardiff address, so after a while he got pissed off and chucked us out so we wandered round Geneva for a long while with no idea where we were, but somehow with another taxi and some very dodgy French we got home.

Saturday we were too hungover to move.

Sunday we enjoyed Geneva.

I saw the world's longest bench and the world's tallest fountain.

Monday I went to CERN and learnt SCIENCE.
Was actually really awesome, I learnt all the things and bought a physics book in the gift shop.

Then I bought some Toblerone and flew home.

Has been quiet recently. It's my last week of lectures and I've kinda lost the momentum for going out.

Frank Turner on Friday though. Woo.

AND SHUDDUP WILL. Scotland is lovely.

I was sat in front of a guy on the plane who kept bitching about Edinburgh, and I was thinking ffs, this is a flight TO Edinburgh, assume most of the people on this flight are either from or going there.

And, it has been an easier timetable than last year. I have nine lectures a week, one or two practicals a week and that's about it really.

Have done so little work revision will quite possibly kill me.

So, this may be the last you hear from me.

AU REVOIR.

(Though actually in Geneva everyone says 'ciao'.)

OH. And I watched Die Hard yesterday.

This could easily be the best blog I've ever written

You know what guys? I miss msn.
Back in the day you would log onto msn and talk to all your friends and granted a conversation wouldn't go much further than

hi
hey
you ok? yeah you?
i'm good what you been up to?
not much you?
not much haha

but you used to have a nice little 5 minute conversation with everyone about their day, nowadays we have facebook chat which is bollocks and not the same in any way BAH.
So yeah, I've decided that as of today I'm going to facebook chat people more, bringing back the instant messaging communication just if I see people are online.

SO THIS WEEK on tuesday I went round the house of all our other friends from halls and we played skyrim (which is beautiful) and then the girls came down and we watched mamamia which I ruined for everybody and then love actually which I know is far to early but OH MY GOD YOU GUYS CHRISTMAS :D:D:D. And then I was like ok I think I'ma go home now but then my housemate was like oh I just turned 20 and we were like OH SHIT and got really drunk instead of going home and I missed my tutorial on wednesday. THEN on wednesday we went to the medic sports night rag centurian and I was once again a centurian but also all the sports teams had a fresher go on stage and be abused and It's too long a story but it was awful, one guy had to eat 10 boiled eggs soaked in gin! On thursday I went to a choir concert cause I couldn't sing cause I missed all the rehersals due to my appendix. ALSO ON THURSDAY MY PHONE BROKE AND I GOT THIS INSTEAD.



I know rite? It's terribad. On friday I went to a houseparty and saw some people i don't see very often and there are pictures on facebook. This weekend I went to canterbury (again I know i'm a fiend) and I saw jonny and his little sister was visiting and we played ring of fire and arrogance and she was sick everywhere. ALSO i painted a rubber duck :)

Will UBRUB sounds so awesome! I'm pretty sure I'm not going to get the chance to come to your uni this term but give me a date next term and I'll come be on your team I swear :D, in answer to your question from last week I decided although it's obvious this is certainly the best comedy sketch ever



I'm not ben marwooding (SIGHH) but I am back late friday evening PARTY AT MY HOUSE.

Juliet I don't have that much to say to you but I hope you're having fun and if you went to newcastle WHY DIDN'T YOU MAKE CATH BLOG?

Speaking of Cath she's sent me her email and I'ma add her to the blog (again)

Josh I enjoyed your blog and your bonfire night sounds badass, I like the pictures of where you went and stuff. Also my appendix is good FANKS :)

I think I have other things to say but this blog is already far too long, I also don't have any pictures I'm sorry

Love David

I couldn't find any funny pictures this week

I watched Airplane with my housemates last night, I’m so glad that film exists.

You guys, I think I have found the perfect society to join. Well technically it isn’t a society because it isn’t allowed to be supported by the union. It is called UBRUB which stands for Urban Beverage Racing University of Bristol I believe. They organise races were you are tied by the wrists in teams of three and have to race between the bars and drink the allotted drinks at each place. Our team did not do particularly well, we weren’t allowed out of the first bar for ages because the next race people blocked the door. We still managed to get through the 7 bars in about 40 minutes which wasn’t too bad a time. In all honesty, the actually running part was a bit of an ordeal, I am horribly unfit and it was actually quite a long run. I was particularly struggling after strawpedoing half a bottle of wine and then having to do a solid 10 minute jog to the next bar, I managed to keep it all down which is more than can be said for a lot of the other competitors including my teammate Andy who managed to spray the toilet of the last bar with bright red vomit. Maybe you can come visit next time there is a race on and we can enter a team.

I had my second hospital placement all last week. I really enjoyed it again, actually getting to see patients is so much better than lectures. All the UBRUBing took place on Thursday night so I felt less than fresh having to go to the hospital on Friday to give my patient presentation to some big fancy consultant. Luckily he asked me a load of questions on Cushing’s syndrome and I happened to have seen a patient with that the day before so I came up with a load of fancy pants answers about it and it all went well.

But that’s enough about me, lets talk about you.

David, I’m glad you’re looking into the bone marrow thing, I can’t say enough how good it is to do, the rest of you, I would love it if you could look into it too. Also, are you Ben Marwooding? And if not are you at least back for the weekend?

Juliet, I agree with David, you seem to have very few lectures. Or do you just not go to lots of them? Also fuck Scotland.

Josh, you’re fireworks night sounds excellent, much more successful than mine where we ended up having to stand in the road outside the display because we got there too late. In responses to your organ removal question, everything inside you can all just squish about a bit anyway so the gap just get filled by all the other stuff inside you spreading out a bit, also your appendix is pretty damn tiny so it doesn’t leave much of a gap. I am also glad that you have a Will ladder, I sure hope I am near the top. Finally, hi housemate Will, congratulations on having such an excellent name.

So I’ll be home next week on Thursday for Ben Marwood but then I am going to have to go back to Bristol for Friday things and then come back to Swindon/home again in the evening. I am then going to see all my extended family on Sunday near Leicester somewhere and then try and get back to Bristol on time for Monday lectures. All in all a busy weekend but hopefully it will involve seeing some kittens which will be lovely, I can’t wait.

I finished Modern Warfare 3 this week as well. I was really rather disappointed by the story this time. The levels were really beautiful and the graphics were exceptional but the story just wasn’t as good as previous ones. Having said that, I was pretty darn sad at one point, I won’t spoil it for any of you that want to play it, but you’ll know when you get there.

Finally I ordered Frank Turner’s second 3 years CD. It should come on Monday and I look forward to it greatly, I already have quite a few of the songs but there are also some new covers and b sides that I haven’t so that’ll be exciting.