army of me

*deep breath* wow. where do i start??? there are several reasons that orchestrated my being able to blog today. firstly, my class was cancelled this afternoon, and i only found out when i was at the outpatient reception. secondly, i am finally myself again after a protracted, at times unbearable, week or so, because i got 7 hours of sleep last night. thirdly, the arrival of a blogworthy event : i'm going to get my hair cut soooon. pardon le narcissism. fourthly, the unexpected protracted visit of an italian musician has left me too relaxed to want to delve into 'immunity and beyond' just yet...

also of note.. the cutest mittens in the world are in town... i now have the urge to dissect anything with fur.... i'm totally loving autumn.

medicine men

so despite the fact that i should be blogging about more ecclesiastical things, the little devil in me still can't forget the rapture of the sweet sweet conversation i had with my medicine men last thursday evening.

alas, it is true, as pointed out by my dear flatmate, Amy, that there are only so few 'cool' people in medicine. and i am soo utterly grateful to God for dropping these lovely men in my lap... for those of you who know my comings and goings in my wee university life, u know the two men of whom i speak of...

so anyway, it was such a respite from the new people and faces i meet in my new course.. the loveliness of familiarity, of unforgiving bitchiness unrestrained by the antiquated social-norms demanded by the sense of propriety required when meeting new people. so the merry three of us were reunited in the SL (study landscape) on that merry thursday evening, our insides acheing from all the giggling and laughing and utter taking the piss... oh my life in medicine is made so much merrier with these men...

also of note was my very stress-relieving time spent last night, post-Confident Christianity weekend, ensconced in the newly created niche that is my digital-tv-equipped kitchen, watching America's Next Top Model season 6 with Amy and being totally..... blase.

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on watching angelina jolie drop the last piece of the puzzle on a biplegic denzel washington and attempting to pick it up with a pair of tweezers in 'The Bone Collector'...

richard: do u know you can still get an erection if you have spinal injury? you just have to stroke the feet.

issaam: yeah, but doesn't that cause the urge to defaecate as well? kinda loses the mood, u know?

richard: yeah, but some people like that.

sojourn

brilliant..

a more robust , all-out impressiveness and in one word, spectacular. 15 hours on and i'm still in recovery.

attrition tears

you know that feeling that you need to jump out of your skin? when there's an inner something in you that needs to get out and needs to get out? i'm feeling like that right now. when i'm surrounded by all the things money can buy, all the friends and banter a university student in the uk can have, when work's piling up beyond what i can manage and deadlines are looming in the near and present future - when i've got ALL THE THINGS IN THE WORLD TO DO... i feel like there's not one of them that i feel like doing. that's how i'm feeling right now.

but what do you do when you want to burst, but there's noone lurking around to mop up all the pieces and sew you back together? absolutely nothing. you keep it in, you wrap yourself up with another layer of woolly fleece, you sip up your peppermint tea and study the autumn away.

but all the trees will clap their hands...

• and this is a typical day in the life of an intercalating student....

	Monday 9/10
0900-1000	0900-1015 IHD Lecture (403) - Intro to Chemokines - G. Graham
1000-1100
1100-1200	1100-1215 IHD Lecture (403) -Neutrophils, Mononuclear Phagocytes - JAG
1200-1300
1400-1500	2-5 FRS (403) - Nature of Immunity & Immunopathology - M. Thomas
1500-1600
1600-1700
1700-1800	5-? Immunology students social	545-700 CMF meeting (Rob's flat)
1800-1900			630-10 girl's bible study (Gill's flat)
1900-2000
2000-2100
2100-2200