Finally!
Yeah so here's an update. Summer has been really quite uneventful yet still very nice and relaxing - I haven't found it boring, which shows how much I obviously needed a rest. And then uni will start again and hecticness will show its face again - especially with my having joined three new things this year, which will all need some attention, plus starting my project (yay!).
I'm really excited about this project at the moment actually - but we'll see what I'm feeling like when I've *actually* started it and I'm thoroughly fed up of staining specimens and staring at them down the microscope...and biking to Addenbrooke's when it's snowing! The problem with going back to uni mainly is that I'm really gonna miss people - Pitwood has buggered off to Iceland already and yeah...we've all had some really good times this summer, just hanging out and stuff. And the driving...lots of that. I have my theory test on Thurs (argh) and I'm sure I may fail so intensive hazard perception will be going on in the next few days. Apart from missing home people, I will be looking forward to this year - it'll be my last in Cambridge, I'll be graduating, so I'll make it a good one. It'll be lovely to see my Cam girlies again as well and I'm sure much fun will be had...it will be weird Dave not being there but I shall have to cope and to be honest it's probably a good thing not to have him to rely on when I have nothing to do.
Stuff with Dave is going fine...I keep on being up and down and I think we're probably a bit stuck in a rut but to be honest we have been going out for over 18 months and I think ruts will occur - it's just up to us to work our way out of them. Which is why it'll be good to be away from each other, probably. We're going to see his dad in Dallas at Christmas, so I'll work towards that. I love him a lot and that's all that counts really.
My birthday was rather cool, being at Reading and seeing Eagles of Death Metal (fab!) and I had a little thing last week which was lovely bringing all my close friends from home together :) And considering that some of them don't really talk to one another, it all went rather brilliantly (and a tad drunkenly) - apart from the cocked-up tube service and the subsequent night bus home (does anyone else hate the N55 route with a vengeance? It takes you through Clapton and Hackney, of all the delightful places in London..). I was SO touched by the cake that Chris and James made, AND it was edible and beautifully iced with encouraging phrases like "biohazard" and "not fit for human consumption"! Gonna miss those guys.
Reading in general was awesome as well. Apart from coming back with a terrible cold AND an allergic rash on my face that was yucky and didn't go away for weeks, it was fun; we just went with another couple, and we were subdued but had a nice time. Pathetically, I think I'm getting even worse at late nights, but I don't think that matters horrendously..we had a good time. Muse were fucking amazing - so worth going for, and Pearl Jam were rather cool. Seeing the Kooks was cool, not that we could see a thing, the tent was so jampacked. The problem is that they've increased capacity and not increased venue space, so everything is just so damn busy to the point of busting! Thankfully the Portaloos were so much better this year, but I still ended up peeing in a can at one point (when you gotta go, you gotta go...) - to the disgust of my lovely boyfriend...
I can't remember who else we saw who were good, but there were others! Muse just stole the entire festival with their brilliance. And they played Feeling Good - and I don't care that they didn't write it, their version is soooooo awesome.
I think that'll just about do it for the moment. Just to add that I haven't been bumming around ALL summer: I worked in a special needs school for four weeks, and really enjoyed it. It was tiring, and hard work sometimes because they can be frustrating, but amazing because basically I was getting paid to play with cute kids! Mostly all I had to do was take them to the ball pool or sensory room, but then it's great for learning how to communicate with children with learning difficulties, which is a big buzzword in medicine.
I also looked into forensic pathology this week and thank god, I don't have to do a PhD. Think it'd kill me doing a thesis for three years. All I have to do now is work my way up to being a specialist registrar in Histopathology (about another 12 years?) and then take an exam to get to the first step of another long ladder that would take another 4 years probably...and then there are only about 37 posts in the entire country. So. Not tough or anything. We'll see - the thing is, I'm not used to failing, and I know I will at one point in the future; not get the job I want, or get a good enough mark in the exam I'm taking...I've already slid 27 places in the year, which is a lot considering I was 23rd originally. Oh well. Lots of learning to do still. Que sera sera and all that....
I'm really excited about this project at the moment actually - but we'll see what I'm feeling like when I've *actually* started it and I'm thoroughly fed up of staining specimens and staring at them down the microscope...and biking to Addenbrooke's when it's snowing! The problem with going back to uni mainly is that I'm really gonna miss people - Pitwood has buggered off to Iceland already and yeah...we've all had some really good times this summer, just hanging out and stuff. And the driving...lots of that. I have my theory test on Thurs (argh) and I'm sure I may fail so intensive hazard perception will be going on in the next few days. Apart from missing home people, I will be looking forward to this year - it'll be my last in Cambridge, I'll be graduating, so I'll make it a good one. It'll be lovely to see my Cam girlies again as well and I'm sure much fun will be had...it will be weird Dave not being there but I shall have to cope and to be honest it's probably a good thing not to have him to rely on when I have nothing to do.
Stuff with Dave is going fine...I keep on being up and down and I think we're probably a bit stuck in a rut but to be honest we have been going out for over 18 months and I think ruts will occur - it's just up to us to work our way out of them. Which is why it'll be good to be away from each other, probably. We're going to see his dad in Dallas at Christmas, so I'll work towards that. I love him a lot and that's all that counts really.
My birthday was rather cool, being at Reading and seeing Eagles of Death Metal (fab!) and I had a little thing last week which was lovely bringing all my close friends from home together :) And considering that some of them don't really talk to one another, it all went rather brilliantly (and a tad drunkenly) - apart from the cocked-up tube service and the subsequent night bus home (does anyone else hate the N55 route with a vengeance? It takes you through Clapton and Hackney, of all the delightful places in London..). I was SO touched by the cake that Chris and James made, AND it was edible and beautifully iced with encouraging phrases like "biohazard" and "not fit for human consumption"! Gonna miss those guys.
Reading in general was awesome as well. Apart from coming back with a terrible cold AND an allergic rash on my face that was yucky and didn't go away for weeks, it was fun; we just went with another couple, and we were subdued but had a nice time. Pathetically, I think I'm getting even worse at late nights, but I don't think that matters horrendously..we had a good time. Muse were fucking amazing - so worth going for, and Pearl Jam were rather cool. Seeing the Kooks was cool, not that we could see a thing, the tent was so jampacked. The problem is that they've increased capacity and not increased venue space, so everything is just so damn busy to the point of busting! Thankfully the Portaloos were so much better this year, but I still ended up peeing in a can at one point (when you gotta go, you gotta go...) - to the disgust of my lovely boyfriend...
I can't remember who else we saw who were good, but there were others! Muse just stole the entire festival with their brilliance. And they played Feeling Good - and I don't care that they didn't write it, their version is soooooo awesome.
I think that'll just about do it for the moment. Just to add that I haven't been bumming around ALL summer: I worked in a special needs school for four weeks, and really enjoyed it. It was tiring, and hard work sometimes because they can be frustrating, but amazing because basically I was getting paid to play with cute kids! Mostly all I had to do was take them to the ball pool or sensory room, but then it's great for learning how to communicate with children with learning difficulties, which is a big buzzword in medicine.
I also looked into forensic pathology this week and thank god, I don't have to do a PhD. Think it'd kill me doing a thesis for three years. All I have to do now is work my way up to being a specialist registrar in Histopathology (about another 12 years?) and then take an exam to get to the first step of another long ladder that would take another 4 years probably...and then there are only about 37 posts in the entire country. So. Not tough or anything. We'll see - the thing is, I'm not used to failing, and I know I will at one point in the future; not get the job I want, or get a good enough mark in the exam I'm taking...I've already slid 27 places in the year, which is a lot considering I was 23rd originally. Oh well. Lots of learning to do still. Que sera sera and all that....