oof… what a week….

2006-09-08

So…
Hope everyone is doing well!

What a long week it’s been, and it’s only been 4 days. I find myself falling asleep everywhere – in class, on study breaks, on my books at home, eating dinner, cycling on my way to school, walking home from school because I decided it was too dangerous to cycle home because I was so tired… 😉

I managed to get all of my assignments done early, which meant that I could concentrate on getting my readings done. Needless to say with soo much falling asleep it didn’t happen. But at least I seem to be keeping pace with everyone else. In fact I think compared to some people I might actually be ahead – mostly because I understand a lot more than some of the students right now in most of the classes. Now if only that were the case with BChem. I think we’re going to have to actually break down and group together to get a tutor – the prof doesn’t much care that 65 out of the 70 students in class have no idea what the hell he’s talking about right now so…

My lab partner passed out in Anatomy this week – the fumes from the formaldehyded dog got to her – I tried to catch her but she’s 5’10” and I didn’t see it coming. I now have a big bruise all over the right side of my back where I connected with the dissecting tab
le. And she has a concussion from hitting the right side of her face on a stool – but she didn’t make contact with the floor! 🙂 I also have smelled like formalin all week from kneeling in it holding c-spine while waiting for her to regain consciousness. We’re going back to lab today to ‘review’ what we missed Wednesday, since we have
 3 anatomy labs a week and now we’re a bit behind. ;P

Yesterday’s herd management was ‘interesting’. We herded swine. Of course I ended up going home with feed in my clothes and smelling like crap – and I got run over so there was dirt in my hair, but still. Much better than Wednesday’s. Wednesday we learned how to take care of lab animals because the Bovine teaching unit has been taken over by the small animal clinic since half of our building is currently under construction/renovations. A white lab rat decided that he liked me and wouldn’t get out of my lab coat pocket.
 I’m not squeamish but didn’t really feel like taking the rat home. The instructor tried to convince me that I should adopt it – this of course was after the anatomy lab where I’d been kneeling on the floor. I was kind of cranky and just wanted the rat out. When the tech tried to get into my pocket to get the rat she got bitten. So for 2 hours I had a lab rat that chirruped and dug in when I put my hand in my pocket and bit everyone else… sigh…

At home – I still have half my boxes left to unpack, and am living in darkness because I only have one lamp. My furniture gets delivered at the end of the month – then I’ll have something to sit on. My aunt and uncle gave us a chair, but the cats have taken ownership and unless I’m feeling really energetic it’s not worth the argument. Did I mention that I found out that there was a break in last year? So my uncle is getting the windows on the 2 old-fashioned ones changed ASAP. And there’s been lots of weird thumping, banging and crashing coming from downstairs – maybe my tenant is getting beaten every night and I don’t recognise the sounds… Last night there was crash at midnight of glass breaking. I got up to check everything – and it wasn’t the cats! (they always get the blame first, but they were fast asleep at the end of the bed for once… 🙂 I checked windows, doors, china, crockery, the dishwasher (it was midnight!) and the bathroom… nothing. so?

Anyway… gotta run to class… have a great weekend and chat to you all next week! Sorry if I haven’t responded if you’ve written an email… I still don’t have it hooked up. Count the days with me – Sept 14th!!!

love

j ox