I live in Halls. Hellhole Halls.

A Saturday fire alarm and a confiscated kitchen item should have been warning enough. Bad things do not come in twos.

Number three arrived at 4am. Grr, already.

Then add smashed windows, intruders, destruction of flat contents, and the calling of police and window-repair-men, and grr does not even partly cover it. Fortunately, it wasn't my flat, but it was 2 floors down, and with single glazing and very thin floors, it sounded like it was in my bedroom. And it was damn scary!

Cue much gossiping the next morning, considering only I and one other girl had the nerve to come out of our rooms to find out what was going on. Drunken psycho's, I believe was the conclusion...

Either way, the Ghetto has certainly told us why it deserves that nickname. Thank goodness for the new flat being in posh-trendy area :D

Going for the world record in procrastination...

Greetings Saturday. Would you mind awfully if you could just stop, and restart? Please? No? Oh. Kthxbye.

No weekend lie-ins today, due to some moron burning his breakfast. If there's gonna be a fire alarm, it would have to be on the wettest, coldest day of May, wouldn't it. Yay.
And as if that didn't put a downer on the weekend already, our toaster got confiscated. Yes, confiscated, like a Pokemon card in a primary school. It's crime? Fusing the electrical circuits of our entire floor. Oops.

I just wanna get out of halls. Like, now. Ok, so there are only three weeks left til I'm home but, gah, I just wanna stop living out of boxes! My frickin underwear lives in a box, for crying out loud! My bedside table is a box!

Is it too much to ask for real furniture? Meh, if I can survive the long (currently unemployed) summer, I get my own room, in a flat shared with ONLY two other people, with a SOFA and a BATH and a DINING TABLE THAT WILL SEAT MORE THAN TWO PEOPLE! Oh, and a real cooker (damn you, Baby Belling. Just die already!). Plus... the bonus of only buying a 2 bed house, to be occupied by 3 people is [drum roll] we have to convert the lounge into bedroom number 3. Which means (a) bigger room, (b) bay window, and (c) antique Victorian tiled fireplace!

I'm so psyched! Proper bookshelves, and a chest of drawers, and a comfy desk chair... Gah, furniture freak.

Finally (and then I promise I'll go study. Or go to the shop to stock up on Nutella. Oh, there's no point. I have no toast to schmear it on. Today SUCKS), I'm trying to order my steth for the start of second year, and have no idea which colour to buy. Yeh, life changing decision. There're all dark and murky! Except the fluoro orange, which just looks bizarre, the baby blue and pink, which look like you already picked out Paeds as your specialty, and bubblegum pink. If it had actually been BRIGHT pink, it'd be dangling round my neck already. However, it's just kind of a normal pink with a sheen to it?

5'll make you feel alright!

I am so ridiculously sick to the back teeth of '5 things' on Facebook!!! I use FB to catch up with goss from old school mates, stalk people I'd rather not talk to, and keep up to date on who's going out with who. I do not care if you have an empty beer can within arm's reach, and four other boring and ordinary items. Equally, it's not gonna make my day to discover that you have hand picked the 5 most bizarre items in you house to sit next to before filling that quiz out.

And if you can't beat them....

1. A plastic skull - gained using the best of medical communication and informed consent while celebrating the closure of the Union. I also have a yellow pool ball from that evening. The table itself wouldn't fit down the stairs...

2. A wine glass. Empty, obv.

3. Half a billion padded envelopes. I'm trying to save enough to pad my room. Cheaper heating bills....

4. The Anatomy Colouring Book. Cos colouring is the new studying.

5. A stretchy rubber ball that looks like a lion, complete with stretchy tufts of mane. My mother sent it, for stress relief. Erm, thanks.

[If anyone doesn't get the title, I refer you to popular 90's music]

Rambles.

Firstly, since when did Jaffa cakes get to one-mouthful-cake-gone size?? I want damn face-sized jaffa cakes! Same with Wagon Wheels. I could go on all day about food that has shrunk (don't get me started on Creme Eggs).

Secondly, library hours have been cut thanks to the dumb 2 mile round trip UP a hill and DOWN a hill each way. Thanks, stretched-a-little-too-far calf muscle. You HURT. And you coincide with my regular i-should-really-get-my-ballet-pumps-out flights of fancy. Plie with pulled calf? Nu-uh. Gah. And ibuprofen isn't helping. Greetings, superstrong cocodamol. You come with peace...

Ohmigosh there's only 9 days til exams start and I know NOTHING. Like, I spent 4 hours in the library today. Studying. Interspersed with sitting on the stairs eating Monster Munch (no retro snacks near the books!), texting R about... well, nothing, and fielding phone calls from people dying to offer me summer employment. Ok, I stretch the truth a little. There was one measly phone call. Offering me an interview for next week.

Yay!

I am 420 miles from the coffee house that wants to interview me. And unable to leave town because of revision, and MRI's and stuff.

Nay.

So, I offered to interview in June, when I'm back, and they did the whole letting-you-down-gently thing of 'well we're interviewing for 3 spots next week, so if some of those don't work out we'll get in touch, and we'll keep hold of your CV just in case'. Woo. Cross them off my list for this summer.

Ah well. I have the last-resort of begging R's Dad (hereby known as FIL - Father in Law, despite the lack of, you know, marriage or anything) for work. I'm not sure what sane business owner would employ a little 20 year old girl (that still sounds so weird. No 'teen' anymore) to lug around 21ft metal poles and shizz, but ya never know.

Dumb, Dumber, and Jelly.

All I learnt today is that Lucozade doesn't make good flower water. You'd think that would be obvious from the photosynthesis equation, but I tried anyway.

And, 5 hours after I switched on the computer, plus 2 powercuts which hall staff were less than hasty in dealing with, all I have done is read like 2 years of Michelle Au's blog (I love her cartoons) and try to figure out how to make two pennies into a pair of earrings.

Productive, no. I promise after I make another batch of food for the freezer (since Morrison's stopped making the two veggie ready meals that were providing 90% of my week's sustenance, I'm forcing myself to make curry,and chilli, and pasta bake, to freeze in perfect one person portions), I will go to the library.

Ooh, and put away those freshly laundered tshirts. And alphabetise my DVDs. Maybe watch the end of The Prince And Me (don't judge me - it was a birthday gift, and I happen to like Julia Stiles).

Bleh, procrastination. You may be more fun than Haematology today, but you will bite me on the (sizeable) ass in 11 days when exams start AND I REALISE I KNOW NOTHING.

Btw... the earring thing. Seems you need a drill with a fine bit. And even then I can only find instructions if you hammer the penny flat first, which would ruin the print. Or whatever a coin design is called. Minting? Funky shield thing? Meh.

PhD in Tea Making, coming right up!

Ohmigosh crazy days. Not only did PhD boy seem to like the idea of a tea-lady for the summer, his supervisor is ok with it too! Just got to send off the CV and I'm in!

Just gotta send the boyf skulking into the uni halls to find out what PhD boy is like... hot, I hope :p

I'm so excited!!! And I did six hours in the library today, so go me! Haematology is actually pretty straightforward. And fun - all those cascades and factors! I like nitty bitty details :D

Best start learning my factors in bone healing :D

Jelly-shaped Lab Rats

I may be another step closer to being published! Well, published dead last, in the capacity of 'my contribution was making tea and supplying biscuits'. Just emailed a guy at the uni back home to see if I can get involved in his project this summer - and it's Ortho-related! So, fingers crossed, I may have an ACL audit, and this!

UKFPO - I am so gonna batter you with how many points I can accumulate :D