~update~

So I haven't updated my blog in a couple days...and I'm not entirely sure why! I guess I have been trying to work a little bit more efficiently than usual...it's now got to the stage that I actually have to remove my wireless card from my laptop to stop me from wasting time on the internet while working!
I have now finished my psychiatry attachment and in 10 days time I have my mini psychiatry exam, so that has filled me with sufficient fear that I am revising more consistently.

I am also starting to get very scared about my exams next May. Although I don't take my proper FINAL MEDICAL EXAMS till 2008, these actually count as part of my finals (*feels panic attack starting*), and so am trying to be more consistent with my work, because otherwise I will not pass them (they have been described by some people in the year above us as the hardest exams they have ever taken).
and they're horrible too--like 3 hours of multiple choice questions, 3 hours writing 7 essays, and then another 3 hours of data interpretation (blood tests etc).

*tries not to freak out with fear*

Also, as well as dfoing lots of work, I just haven't had anything exciting to report!
It was the feast day of Our Lady of the Rosary yesterday which was beautiful.

Oh, I also got my hair cut!! It is short and choppy and layered, and looks kinda funky! (although I got it done yesterday and haven't washed it yet...so it'll probably go all floppy and straight as soon as I do! I need very low maintenence hair-styles because I don't really look after my hair any more than washing and drying it...).


Also, I have been kinda down about my friend with the cancer. I have emailed her a couple of times, but no reply till yesterday when all I got was "Thanks, Antonia" sent at 2:30am. I have no idea which other students she has told so I can't talk to any of my friends about her, and I don't think she is coming in to lectures anymore either, so I don't know how she is doing.

This was made worse by the fact that we had a teaching day in Palliative Care at the local hospice during the week, and so all we did was talk about issues in terminally ill patients, like weight loss, nausea, vomiting, constipation, pain etc(mainly cancer), and I kept thinking about my Uncle who died so horribly of cancer last April (it's in my archives), and his children, my cousins.


Also, I think I really over-did it with my crazy week last week; rushing around (through no fault of my own) to 50 gazillion events, and so I had an almost constant head-ache for the first 4 days of this week...not fun! I always get head-aches like that when I am chronically stressed.


This morning I've been out for the entire day so far because we had a little party with a free lunch for all the new students at our Catholic Church. This evening I have a pro-life meeting for students at 5pm, a Prayer Group at 6pm (+ the Rosary I always go to also at 6:15pm), plus a party for the new students at 7pm....

I don't think I can cope with more than the rosary prayer group, so unfortunatly I'll have to miss everything else!

and of course I have about 95 things on my revision 'To Do' list!!

Oh dear, this is turning into a bit of a sorry post isn't it?! I should probably end now!!

But other than that everything has been fine & dandy with me!!

Chris & I had a fun day together yesterday. We didn't really do anything special (and in fact I was out at a friend's birthday lunch for the entire afternoon) but we just had a particularly funny time when we were together in the evening!


God Bless!

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