So up and down today. Got everything sorted out in the morning, then had to wait an hour for the doctors to turn up to the haematology clinic. The clinic was really good, then I left earlier than I had to because I didn't know what time I had to be at genetics. Genetics was okay, but I was really tired. Etc.

The genetics guy really pissed me off. He was saying that the reason they don't do proper teaching is that they focus on students who do electives on just genetics. Asshole. If they're not going to teach us, why offer the option?

On the plus side, I wangled myself a few extra sessions - cancer clinic tomorrow morning and single gene disorders Thursday morning. Also, I made a step towards sorting out an a&e/acute med SSC at SGH. That should be really good if I can get it sorted out properly. Otherwise I might do it at the Royal. Also considering doing an SSC in Manchester.

It was raining when I left the hospital, but it really annoyed me! It was light, warm rain, straight down, you could protect yourself with an umbrella, ffs! That's not proper Glasgow rain. And then it stopped! Rubbish.

It threw it down after that though.

Since I last posted (I know, I'm crap) I've spent a week in Egypt with my family (hot, lovely), drunk a great deal with my friends back home (fun, but leads to hangovers), come back to Glasgow (hooray), seen George (also hooray, although she's off to Europe now), cleaned my flat (thank fuck, although bedroom still to be done, oh dear), spent a couple of days in Elie with Robert and some of his family (lovely, although Ethan is going through something of a tantrum phase - every time he hears the word 'no' he hurls himself at the floor and cries), been to Edinburgh with Robert to celebrate his 22nd birthday, played my piano some more (fantastic), been somewhat up and down in the mood department (bleh), and generally arsed about a bit.

I finished the essay which was being something of a bane of my life, on liver disease in the neonate. On Monday I'm starting placement at Yorkhill Sick Kids Hospital. It's a little scary but should be really interesting. I'm doing genetics, general paeds, neurology and then A&E, so it should be a great elective. After that I'm up at Crosshouse, then Dumfries, which I'm not terribly impressed with but it is what it is. Apparently the teaching in Dumfries is great, and I know it is in Crosshouse, so that's a plus at least.

Hopefully will be posting a little bit more, just cross your fingers!

So I'm back home in Stafford, which I'm not really best pleased about, it's quite dull. But I did manage to catch up with Rachel, Holly and Maral and Sarah H, which was nice, I went to meet them in the pub after watching Public Enemy with my family. Shite film, although I fell in love with Johnny Depp a bit. Always do when I watch his films, he is so beautiful and has such an attractive manner, if that makes sense? Ah, just something about him... Didn't make it a good film though. Depp and Bale were both very good, as was the girl in it whose name I forget, but the script and direction were awful. Poor pacing, lighting, colouring, shooting, everything. Mince.

Still, not the end of the world! There were so many people I knew in the pub although they were largely people I didn't really like at school and don't really want to speak to now, to be quite honest. I don't know why people always insist on chatting away like they were best friends when they hated each other back then. I mean, I'll say hi and be civil but actually, I didn't like you then, I don't know you now and I don't see any reason at all to talk to you when I don't have to! Silly people.

So, it's been a while! But once again I am less than fully occupied and I have resorted to LJ. I'm hopeless at posting, although I have posted all of three times in the last six months on my wordpress.

Over the last few months, I passed my exams, watched a lot of Family Guy (which I'm still not convinced I like, I often find the humour crude and predictable), did a five week placement on a neonatal unit which was amazing, bought a piano, started to learn the guitar and generally arsed about. I've been in hospital, I've been crazy and hopeless, I've been better and not better but mostly, things are not too bad. My two best friends started a relationship with each other. I'm still with Robert.

I think I will try to update more regularly for a while (although this is not difficult, considering I haven't updated in like six months) because I think writing a decent journal would be fun for a bit :)  Not promising anything though cause I am a bit hopeless (you may have noticed).

What else? It's way too muggy at the moment in Glasgow, hot is good but humid is just awful, I wish we'd get a thunderstorm. Still, I'm appreciating being warm.

I'm going out for a curry tonight with some of the doctors from the NNU, which should be fun. They're a really nice bunch.

Hopefully I'll remember to post again soon.

The med school really annoy me. I wrote an essay, a few months ago, and today I went and picked up the feedback for it. I got a C. I wasn't too impressed because I thought the essay was better than that, and I know I'm quite good at this particular subject, but you know, whatever, it's a pass. Until I read the written feedback. An entire page of 'you did this well, and that well'. The only negative comment was that I'd used too many web resources instead of print ones (this isn't my main course. I don't have any of the books), and that I'd thought Jean Piaget was French, when he's actually Swiss.

How does that warrant a C, exactly?

I swear the med school don't actually grade work, they just give it a random number based on, oh, how many times you used the word 'demographic' divided by the number of lectures you missed in first year, or the number of lines per page multiplied by the number of lecture feedback forms you've filled in in the past week. It's clearly not based on someone actually reading your essay and marking it in any kind of sensible way.

Fuck that. Why am I doing this again?

Ok guys, shopping SOS.

I saw someone wearing a coat today, and I have to have one. This is not like me, really. It was a calf length coat, tied at the waist, with a full, flared "skirt", and the hem was kind of irregular/wavy, like a gypsy skirt. I can not find one for the life of me.

Help! I'd be really grateful.

So, I did get my hair cut, and it's great.

I finished the exams, less great but done.

Nothing is happening in my life. I suck.

I found some pictures of haircuts on Google Images...

( Haircuts )

The trouble is, I just don't know what I'd be able to keep up with or what would suit my face shape and so on.

 I suck. I haven't posted in ages and in that time I have been away on holiday, so I am nicely tanned, and not studied enough.

I'm also contemplating getting my hair cut off.

Does anyone know of a nice style that keeps it short and dramatic but I can still pull it back off my face?