February 2012
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“Don’t get cancer on the ladder, Cartman, you’ll fall off and break it!”
– Stan Marsh, A Ladder to Heaven (s6e12)
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Slowly working up the energy to go and have a...
Yay for sitting in and waiting for the electrician...
Also can’t shower because I’m gonna have to answer the phone. Also can’t eat because I’m self destructive. Excellent morning all around.
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RCD's
Do you know what an RCD is?
I didn’t until this morning. It’s a “Residual Current Device”, and you’ll find it on your fuse box (if you have a newish one anyway).
What the RCD does is monitor energy flow in and out of the circuit. If these aren’t the same, it trips. Causes of this include a grounded person being electrocuted, appliance faults, electrical...
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Travel Costs
Here’s a little secret about medical school.
They will send you on placements that are miles away. Mine is an hour and 40 minute drive from Uni. It’s also in the opposite direction to my home town so if I want to go home it’s going to take like 3 hours.
Not only will they send you away, they will expect you to come back at stupid times like a Thursday afternoon for a session...
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Oh, I forgot to mention the other thing that we...
Meditation.
Apparently, medical students need to meditate more so that we’re less stressed. Or something. I was quite happy to have a session about stress reduction, I am prone to stress and considering how fragile my mental balance is stress is really bad for me.
I quite enjoyed it. The first one.
Then we discussed it a bit. Then I thought we were going to move onto something else.
...
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I was bored, then I realised that I could watch...
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Psychiatrists can read your mind
I was 15 minutes late to the lecture today because I was busy trying to pick up my workbooks/dissertation/portfolio. Quite sad I missed the beginning because according to my friend it was akin to learning to give a raisin oral sex. Look at the raisin, appreciate the raisin. Put the raisin in your mouth. Suck on the raisin. Chew the raisin- (sharp ending to metaphor).
By the time I got there he...
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Clinical years
So, tomorrow it begins. Clinical years. Rotations. Spending all day all week on a ward rather than one morning once a week. No lectures. Lots of patient contact. Learning things on real people rather than power point slides.
I’m excited.
I think.
Sitting. Waiting. When I finish writing this I think I’m gonna go to bed. Need to write a list for the morning (wake up before 9am...
fruityblergs replied to your post: 4am
I feel the same way about having someone upset about me. But anyway, you feel bad, which means you are the complete opposite of a terrible person! :) I think you’re awesome anyway.
I literally love you! Fortunately they have now said that it’s okay, and I’m going to send them lots of secret anon love to make them feel better about the world.
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4am
Can’t sleep. Think I offended someone on tumblr and even though I’ve sent an apology this sort of thing stresses me out. I hate feeling that I’ve upset someone, somewhere in the world, that I don’t actually know, entirely by accident (a slight touch of grumpiness that made my words come out all wrong in text form and then not thinking before I sent what wasn’t...
“You can’t just make me different and then leave. You can’t. You can’t change me...”
– John Green, Looking For Alaska (via aadeniselsewhere)
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1000th post resolution
So I realised that I had 999 posts and that I should probably do something awesome for my 1000th. And the pressure of that meant that I couldn’t think of anything to do. So instead I’m going to try and focus on making my blog better.
I can usually tell before I post them what entries are going to be good and earn notes or whatever is used to track this sort of thing, and which are...
The Internet
It’s a strange place. It’s full of people, and I have some great online friends, but sometimes I feel incredibly alone. Sometimes I become aware that I’m sitting in my room in my pyjamas and it’s just me and nobody in the real world knows what I’m doing. And I know there are things I could do, go on mibbit with a bunch of people from one forum I frequent who are all...
“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
– Ernest Hemingway (via rachel-interrupted)
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Can You Run It? →
System requirements analyser. All I’m realising is that I need to upgrade my laptop. Or buy a PS3. Though if I’m going to buy a PS3 I’d also need a TV. Maybe I could link the TV up to a computer and just have a keyboard on my bed?
</nerd decisions>
Hmmn, what shall I have for lunch?
We have an alarming amount of food at the moment left over from the weekend when the house EXPLODED with people and so we bought lots but then quite a few of them were children and they don’t eat very much so we got left with lots. Which I’m quite happy with. Thing is, when I’m at home all I want to eat is crisps and babybels because I don’t eat them in term time. At the...
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Dr. Cranquis' Mumbled Gripes: Sci fi medicine? →
cranquis:
menacinghowl submitted:
Have you heard or read about Dr David Loftus’ NASA biocapsule? Search it up. That thing is insane.
WOW. So cool! At first I thought it was just a glorified “implanted medical-data recording chip” — but it dispenses medications as needed. And is cheap to…
Too busy unpacking to read the article properly but this sounds really cool!
January 2012
160 posts
Going on holiday tomorrow
Awwwww yeah.
I’ll post stuff if I find somewhere with wireless, but otherwise I’ll see y’all in a week. Excitement! Also nervousness seeing as I booked the flights and if anything goes wrong it’s on my head. Do not like having this responsibility.
xeno
dictionaryofobscuresorrows:
n. the smallest measurable unit of human connection, typically exchanged between passing strangers—a flirtatious glance, a sympathetic nod, a shared laugh about some odd coincidence—moments that are fleeting and random but still contain powerful emotional nutrients that can alleviate the symptoms of feeling alone.
Am I home alone?
Just the TV is on, but nobody has come up to see me yet today, which usually would have happened by now. Maybe they just left the TV on when they left?
BMA newsletter sent out at 2.33am
What’s also bad is that I’m awake to receive it hot off the press.
I always try to refrain from sending emails late at night to people I’m trying to make a good impression on. Even though I’m a night owl myself I look badly at emails sent after 1am. Reason 23 why I’m a bit of a hypocrite.
Yet another boring to-do lsit
Like, actually HAVE to do:
Tidy house in preparation for housemates arriving
MODULE EVALUATIONS
Pack for holiday (as in final pack, not to be unpacked, unlike in a few minutes when I pack everything just so it’s not on my bed any more)
Acquire money. Maybe go to town. I can’t remember what else I need in town bar money, and also my sister has nabbed the car so it’s not even...
Shit I have to do tomorrow II
Finish sorting out stuff in room/move it elsewhere so it isn’t in my room
Write thank you cards to the patients I wrote about in my dissertation for being so awesome
Sort out the various society related things I need to do
Get suitcase down from loft
Do washing. When washing done extract clothes that want to take on holiday. Crease “capsule wardrobe” - i.e. try and make it...
Casually prereading for my block that starts in......
KEEN.
Eh, I gots nothing else to do with my time. Except that I does. Should probably do some of the things that I actually need to do!
I'm going on holiday!
Wooooo!
Going on Wednesday, for a week. It’s gonna be awesome, as we’re going all inclusive and cocktails are served from 10am. It might not be ridiculously warm where we’re going at this time of year but it’ll be warmer than the UK! At least it had better be. If not I’ll drown my sorrows in cocktails and the heated indoor swimming pool. Ooh and the evening dance...
Note to self: do module evaluations before going...
They close while you’re away. Do not want to get bad rep for not doing evaluations when you’ve finally gotten a decent grade in something.
Just found an eyelash
And I realised that I didn’t know what to wish for. For months there has always been something obvious, passing my exams, sorting out my BSc, getting my dissertation in on time, passing the resits. This is the first time in so long that I haven’t really had any major worries. Obviously there are things I need to sort out, I’ve been casually abandoning my extra-curricular things...
SO THROW THOSE CURTAINS WIDE ONE DAY LIKE THIS A...
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Guess what?
I passed!
Ohhhh yeahh.
Not only did I pass the exam I was fairly sure I failed, I also got the highest mark I’ve ever gotten in an exam, and got a distinction on my dissertation. And only 12 people in a year of nearly 200 got distinctions. It does go some way to explaining why my Viva was so fucking weird.
But you know what this means?
I am a medical student on rotations. On the...
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5 hours 54 minutes
Can’t sleep. Ugh.
6 hours 22 minutes
Should possibly maybe sleep.
Keep checking my emails
Even though I know they’re not going to upload results at 2.30am. Because the people who do that sort of thing are asleep right now.
AAH.
Fortunately, I think I’ll be alone for results. Of my 4 housemates one has lectures, one is at home, and the other two want to go in to look at the board. I’m going to sit in my room like a boss and look at them online. Alone in the house....