Well, I just cast my vote in my very first federal election (having missed the last one by a month). I expect tammaiya's 21st tonight to be a grand mixture of fun, frivolity, and drunken law students bawling enthusiastically at the TV screens.

In other news, ( final semester results are out! )

Last exam today! I am wearing one of my favourite outfits, the one that makes me look like I should be playing pre-sexification Sandy in a production of Grease, I am going to get coffee at my favourite campus cafe, and I plan to celebrate afterwards by doing Christmas shopping in the city (I am so organised this year, my friends ( Read more... )

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Holy hell, flist, it is a fucking miracle that I did not pass out in the middle of my parasitology exam, considering that I woke up this morning dying of the plague. My limbs are made of warm lead-goop, my sinuses are threatening to go Krakatoa on me, and apparently I am swearing a lot. Go figure. GREAT TIMING THERE, IMMUNE SYSTEM. FIRST DAY OF ( Read more... )

Oh my god, you guys. I just - just - worked out what a 'strip mall' is. (We don't have a specific name for that here.) And...it's a familiar phrase, so I must have been reading it in books and fanfic and stuff for a while, but I...I think I must have been just vaguely associating it with strip clubs in my head? ALL THIS TIME ( Read more... )

Christ, my eyes, I am never volunteering to be the subject in a perception experiment ever again. (Actually, let the record show that I did not volunteer, but the other two people in my group have corrected vision and so they nominated me.) Three hours of fixating on a glob of blu-tac and indicating the orientation of stimuli in my periphery. And ( Read more... )

Ow, ow, ow, I am typing and clicking the mouse with my middle finger at the moment because my poor index finger is developing a bruise from the vicious disposable lancet that we used to get a blood sample during my parasitology lab. I wasn't sure if I'd bleed well because I have kind of shitty peripheral circulation sometimes, but, well, I bled. ( Read more... )

Having spent two hours of the morning digging around in a (dead) human chest cavity with my begloved hands, waggling various bits of the human heart at people and spouting things that sound like Potter-verse spells, I am tentatively proud of the fact that my current state of death-warmed-up is not due to anatomical squeamishness ("Hey, look, you ( Read more... )

This is completely and vehemently not the detailed update you're looking for; well, perhaps not vehemently, as that implies a certain amount of energy, and I am existing in a state of rarefied exhaustion brought on by a mild cold and a weekend spent gadding my merry way around the Melbourne CBD. And tomorrow I need to spend frantically doing the ( Read more... )

This morning I got to hold a human brain. It was the most fucking awesome thing that has ever happened to me. Two and a half years of learning how it works and what the lobes are called and how signals are propogated in the cells, and today I got to hold one. And poke the cerebellum. And trace the lateral fissure. And also play with the spinal cord ( Read more... )