where did all my time go?

monday's finally over... nothing like sitting back to a hot dinner, spending the limited time i get to have away from medicine and away from the sl (medical library)...


the sl's (pictured left) has been like my second home for the past 3 weeks or so... great heating (0 deg outside, 24 deg inside), snacks 24/7, automatic ventilating system, automatic blinds, internet access, en suite toilets, great crowd, great craic, security's tight and open all night......

don't get me wrong, i LOVE the medical school in glasgow and i absolutely dig pbls, especially since it's hospital-based now... my pbl group this term is pretty interesting. haha... we've got...*drumroll*

mr. smart (not his real name) the most amazing pbl-mate i could ever ask for - on-the-ball, quick, fast, intelligent, got the facts and asks all the right questions.

then we've got my good ol friend mr. friendly... pretty like BFG... knows all the interesting facts cos he's reading evidence based medicine journals half the time...

then we have mr. funny, (my favourite as of today!) he's amazing and we share the same sense of humour. *grin*

we've got little ms. blonde.. ok, that was quite a mean name to call her, but she's amazingly d*tsy.... take this pbl scenario for eg:

someone contributes: so you diagnose an AMI when you see at least one of three things on the ecg : st elevation, st depression or pathological q waves.

ms. blonde: right.. this is the part i dun get.. how come we get both st elevation and depression in MI?

someone else: it depends on whether you get a subendocardial or total infarct.
(everyone nods in agreement)
with subendocardial infarcts, you get st depression.

ms. blonde: right..... (still confused, giving that doubting look) so you get st elevation with total infarcts? and in subendocardial infarcts, you get st depression, but it's above the line?

(NB: for non medics - it's basically the ECG reading... and anything below the isoelectric line is a depression (duh) so obviously you can't get a st depression that's above the line)

hee... she's pretty slow, but amazingly cute and friendly, despite being heralded by some as the prettiest girl in medicine. i like her. :) her eyes go totally wide when we talk about colours, fruits, stars, and cute furry animals.

anyways, we've got ms. goth as well. she's a goth and wears black all the time, is a bottle-black, original colour blonde, black netted stockings, blackish lipstick and short, black leather skirts.. she's really quite nice though, except a little quiet. but she's cool.

yup yup... my wonderful pbl group...

*deep sigh* still debating whether i should go for the night out on tues.. been doing way too much this past week.. 9-5 days almost everyday for uni... guest speaker in church this last weekend. went for a gig and a house party sat night, studied all sunday, except for a meeting at church, meeting again tonight at 730pm, dinner with the guys on tuesday night before the medic night out.... and i still have to finish up lana and lex with kenneth , plan my electives, ssm and intercalated degree before i'm due home on my flight... it's no wonder i've got a lack of sleep...*heavy sigh*

oh, look at the time...