It’s Wednesday morning, and though I’ve come into vet school to do two lectures I’ve had to miss the first one as I brought in the wrong notes (they changed a lecture round between this week and last and I forgot to change it on my timetable). No worries though I’ll just have to catch it up later after football later (don’t panic Mum).
The main thing to write about in this entry has to be the soiree last Friday and Levator Ani’s performance in it.
We (the band) turned up at the Cadbury House (where the soiree is held every year) at 5:00pm to get set up. The guy we hired our PA off was excellent, he brought a great set up and we didn’t have to do anything involving sound levels or sound checks, probably why our sound levels where a hell lot better than at our last gig for the vet pantomime. At 7:30ish everyone started arriving and we got playing 8:30ish. The whole set list went really well. Though I felt there were a couple of critical errors, however when watching Aniket’s recording of us later they don’t seem to have come across. We played supersonic, country house, sit down, shining light, some might say, year 2000, vet life and brim full of asha. It was pretty nerve racking playing to over 400 people, though after a few songs the nerves went and it was really cool, especially as my little bro had driven 2.5hrs to come see me play!
Over the weekend we had to pick up our equipment from the Cadbury house on Saturday and then went to John’s house party in the evening. John’s house mates must have spent loads on alcohol. They had two kegs, punch, shots and vodka jelly. The record for vodka jelly eating went to John’s house mate Matt who consumed 64 desert spoons of the stuff, he then died slowly in a chair for the remainder of the night. Unfortunately I had to leave the party fairly early as was ready to fall asleep wherever I rested for too long (probably still knackered from the Soiree).
On Sunday I had two games of hockey for the vets. We won 6-1 and 2-1. Then in the evening I made a gourmet meal for Hayley. This included garlic mushrooms starter, followed rump steak with home made potato wedges, and then bread and butter pudding for dessert. I think Hayley was fairly impressed, I know I was as I’ve never cooked anything much since Home Ec. in secondary school.
Work for this week is fairly minimal. Monday was, as usual, Langford, where lectures included Blood transfusion, problem solving as a method for working out a diagnosis and prognosis, vomiting and diarrhoea lectures (including the grading of faecal samples) and a lecture on Haemostasis. In the afternoon we had a practical on washing our hands and dressing up (or scrubbing and gowning up, as you will). It was pretty cool to do something indisputably relevant.
Yesterday we had the day off so I decided to repair my PC, make some bread and watch Harry Potter 3 with the house. I also found time to complete the microbiology DSE task. This involved reading some notes on chemical and physical antimicrobial techniques and then answering some timed multiple choice questions on the subject. I got 90% so no worries.
Today I’ve got one more lecture to attend on toxicology then it’s off up to the downs for football. Today Nice Fridge FC are playing Hiatt Baker Halls of Residence.
As for the rest of the week I’ve got a shed load of lectures on Immunology and tomorrow night there’s a vet hockey social at the Indian Ocean Restaurant which I think I might attend (always very messy).
Wednesday, November 24, 2004
Tuesday, November 16, 2004
I’m not entirely sure where my last blog went up to as we haven’t got the internet working in our house yet. Therefore I think I’ll start from the weekend before last (I apologise for leaving it so long between entries again, I’ve been ridiculously busy!).
The weekend before last was a mega road trip to Yorkshire and Derbyshire. It was James Greenwoods 21st party on Saturday night, and then my brother’s birthday on the Sunday.
We (me, Hayley, Mat, Claire and John) left Bristol on Friday evening and made our way up to Hayley’s house to spend the night in Skipton. Amusement for the journey mainly involved the name game, boring you may say, but it was surprising the comedy provided by it (especially John trying to guess Santa, or my frustration at Mr Potato Head). In Skipton on Saturday we had a wander around the market, got James some JD and cheese and then had a very tasty lunch in the Woolly Sheep Pub.
Saturday evening we made our way over to James’ 21st in Huddesfield. His family had made an amazing effort! There was a massive marquee, a three course sit down dinner for around 150people, champaign reception, as much free alcohol as could be consumed, a banjo player to entertain during the meal and an incredibly cheesy dj to finish off the night. The theme for the night was denim and check and everything was fashioned accordingly, along with the banjo player there were Westerns played by projector screen onto the marquee ceiling and the bar and entrance had loads of straw and random vegetables (a lot of which John decided to eat later). Funny stories for the night include Ian eating a whole raw onion, Pritchard wrestling the last beer off the host, Mat using the chat up line “I’m down with pulling you, do you want to go outside (post grad Claire informed us all the next day), the vet jocks playing drink the bar’s dregs game (I think each person got a set amount of time to drink as much dregs from the bar area as possible), Pritchard sleeping outside and puking on the Greenwood’s very nice patio, Hayley being sick in the marquee and thinking that putting a tea towel on top of her mess constituted as clearing it up.
I suppose it’s not the best of ideas to give vets an infinite supply of free alcohol.
On Sunday we made it away from the Greenwoods at around 3ish (once mat thought himself save to drive) and made our way over to my house in Derbyshire to wish my little bro Rich a happy birthday and give him some presents (got him a comedy skiing hat for his four months in Switzerland coming up).
We made it back to Bristol Sunday night all very knackered!
Work over the past week has been fairly slack as we got a very unusually large number of days off.
Monday at Langfordton was shock lectures followed by a fluid and blood gases clinical skills class. This involved a discussion on fluid therapy with case studies followed by a practical session where some guy showed us how to install catheters and measure the blood pressure inside the right atrium (all fairly interesting as it actually is relevant once I quailify).
Tuesday and Wednesday were both immunology days, though we only had two lectures per day. I learnt about antigen presenting cells, B and T lymphocytes and how precisely they each achieve their roles in the innate and humoral immune systems.
Thursday there was quite a few lectures though unfortunately I could not make these as I had to wait in for the telewest-man to come and install tinternet and tefelome. Thank fully we had all Friday off so that I could lay in bed and think about catching up the lectures then actually do it on Saturday. These lectures included our last anti-inflammatory lecture and a lecture on insecticides (drugs used to treat exoparasites i.e. fleas/ticks/mites etc), a lecture on toxicology and two lectures on growth (one of which was on hormones and growth, the other on the determinants of development and the determinants of growth).
Over the last weekend, as well as copying up lectures, I’ve spent some time watching films, some time trying to network the house and some time with Hayley.
On Friday night Hayley and I had a pleasantly relaxing evening in, as everyone else was out (Mat, Paul and Steve had gone home, JP was in the Wedge). We got our selves a Chinese take-away and a film. The communally agreed choice of film was Rain Man.
Over Saturday and Sunday Levator had a 2.5hr practice in preparation for the soiree next Friday and I managed to network the house. This was a success as we can all connect to each others puters and the router but not to the interent, damn computers, think we’re going to have to get someone in to take a look at it.
Right now it’s Monday evening and I’m sat in my room, this will get posted tomorrow lunch.
Today has been pretty busy at Langfordton. We’ve had a biochemistry lecture on the effects/causes of too much or too little (hyper/hypo) magnesium, calcium and potassium in the body, another biochemistry lecture on anaemia and a lecture on growth and one on wounds and injury. The growth lecture was very dull as the guy talks incredibly slowly about some incredible uninteresting stuff e.g. The different kinds of probes for recording the depth of sub-cutaneous fat in pigs. The wounds lecture was pretty interesting, all about the correct methods of repairing different kinds of wounds depending on how contaminated/dirty they are. This afternoon we has a computer based practical on nutrition, enough said.
Over the next week the main event is Friday when the Soiree is taking place. Levator Ani are making a guest appearance and have a 40min slot at the beginning of the night. Then we’re going to store away the kit and enjoy the rest of the night, my little bro is coming down so should be pretty cool.
Forget to mention two things…
Firstly I had a murder mystery night last week. 11 of us dressed up as different characters and carried out a role play type evening. Even though loads of people where ill from colds it was a really cool night. Me and Mat hosted the evening and were the only two to independently guess the murderer right, who was Hayley (or Madj Ikal Russian magician).
Secondly I’ve managed to land myself a job over Xmas helping at the Rottingham conferences including vetsix. Should get me a nice bit of money to clear the Australia dept that’s still lingering in my account.
The weekend before last was a mega road trip to Yorkshire and Derbyshire. It was James Greenwoods 21st party on Saturday night, and then my brother’s birthday on the Sunday.
We (me, Hayley, Mat, Claire and John) left Bristol on Friday evening and made our way up to Hayley’s house to spend the night in Skipton. Amusement for the journey mainly involved the name game, boring you may say, but it was surprising the comedy provided by it (especially John trying to guess Santa, or my frustration at Mr Potato Head). In Skipton on Saturday we had a wander around the market, got James some JD and cheese and then had a very tasty lunch in the Woolly Sheep Pub.
Saturday evening we made our way over to James’ 21st in Huddesfield. His family had made an amazing effort! There was a massive marquee, a three course sit down dinner for around 150people, champaign reception, as much free alcohol as could be consumed, a banjo player to entertain during the meal and an incredibly cheesy dj to finish off the night. The theme for the night was denim and check and everything was fashioned accordingly, along with the banjo player there were Westerns played by projector screen onto the marquee ceiling and the bar and entrance had loads of straw and random vegetables (a lot of which John decided to eat later). Funny stories for the night include Ian eating a whole raw onion, Pritchard wrestling the last beer off the host, Mat using the chat up line “I’m down with pulling you, do you want to go outside (post grad Claire informed us all the next day), the vet jocks playing drink the bar’s dregs game (I think each person got a set amount of time to drink as much dregs from the bar area as possible), Pritchard sleeping outside and puking on the Greenwood’s very nice patio, Hayley being sick in the marquee and thinking that putting a tea towel on top of her mess constituted as clearing it up.
I suppose it’s not the best of ideas to give vets an infinite supply of free alcohol.
On Sunday we made it away from the Greenwoods at around 3ish (once mat thought himself save to drive) and made our way over to my house in Derbyshire to wish my little bro Rich a happy birthday and give him some presents (got him a comedy skiing hat for his four months in Switzerland coming up).
We made it back to Bristol Sunday night all very knackered!
Work over the past week has been fairly slack as we got a very unusually large number of days off.
Monday at Langfordton was shock lectures followed by a fluid and blood gases clinical skills class. This involved a discussion on fluid therapy with case studies followed by a practical session where some guy showed us how to install catheters and measure the blood pressure inside the right atrium (all fairly interesting as it actually is relevant once I quailify).
Tuesday and Wednesday were both immunology days, though we only had two lectures per day. I learnt about antigen presenting cells, B and T lymphocytes and how precisely they each achieve their roles in the innate and humoral immune systems.
Thursday there was quite a few lectures though unfortunately I could not make these as I had to wait in for the telewest-man to come and install tinternet and tefelome. Thank fully we had all Friday off so that I could lay in bed and think about catching up the lectures then actually do it on Saturday. These lectures included our last anti-inflammatory lecture and a lecture on insecticides (drugs used to treat exoparasites i.e. fleas/ticks/mites etc), a lecture on toxicology and two lectures on growth (one of which was on hormones and growth, the other on the determinants of development and the determinants of growth).
Over the last weekend, as well as copying up lectures, I’ve spent some time watching films, some time trying to network the house and some time with Hayley.
On Friday night Hayley and I had a pleasantly relaxing evening in, as everyone else was out (Mat, Paul and Steve had gone home, JP was in the Wedge). We got our selves a Chinese take-away and a film. The communally agreed choice of film was Rain Man.
Over Saturday and Sunday Levator had a 2.5hr practice in preparation for the soiree next Friday and I managed to network the house. This was a success as we can all connect to each others puters and the router but not to the interent, damn computers, think we’re going to have to get someone in to take a look at it.
Right now it’s Monday evening and I’m sat in my room, this will get posted tomorrow lunch.
Today has been pretty busy at Langfordton. We’ve had a biochemistry lecture on the effects/causes of too much or too little (hyper/hypo) magnesium, calcium and potassium in the body, another biochemistry lecture on anaemia and a lecture on growth and one on wounds and injury. The growth lecture was very dull as the guy talks incredibly slowly about some incredible uninteresting stuff e.g. The different kinds of probes for recording the depth of sub-cutaneous fat in pigs. The wounds lecture was pretty interesting, all about the correct methods of repairing different kinds of wounds depending on how contaminated/dirty they are. This afternoon we has a computer based practical on nutrition, enough said.
Over the next week the main event is Friday when the Soiree is taking place. Levator Ani are making a guest appearance and have a 40min slot at the beginning of the night. Then we’re going to store away the kit and enjoy the rest of the night, my little bro is coming down so should be pretty cool.
Forget to mention two things…
Firstly I had a murder mystery night last week. 11 of us dressed up as different characters and carried out a role play type evening. Even though loads of people where ill from colds it was a really cool night. Me and Mat hosted the evening and were the only two to independently guess the murderer right, who was Hayley (or Madj Ikal Russian magician).
Secondly I’ve managed to land myself a job over Xmas helping at the Rottingham conferences including vetsix. Should get me a nice bit of money to clear the Australia dept that’s still lingering in my account.
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