This is the entry for Saturday just gone (forgot to post this on Sat)…

Running a bit late on the blog entry this week I know, though I do have except-able excuses, mainly langford open mic night organisation and pathology DSE.

Firstly and most importantly…The premier Langford Open Mic Night.
I decided a good while ago that it’d be a bit of an alternative interesting evening to organise an open mic night for the vet school this term, of which the date for was Wednesday just gone. Thankfully the evening was a fair success, though this now means I’m wanted by the vet school to produce future evening’s entertainment…
I ran the night at Langford vet student bar, which was fairly cramped for the 150-200odd people that came, though this added nicely to the atmosphere, with people on chairs and tables all round the back of the audience. I ran the night in two halves, with 15 acts in total between the two, these included…
- Charlie on the trumpet.
- JP, me, 2x andys and Claire plus Chris doing 2 acoustic numbers.
- 8 freshers doing a very special “Freshers fit club/fat fighters” dance.
- Andy Henderson as Ronan Keeton.
- Marsden singing two solos.
- Ian and Chris doing stand-up (Ian went down a storm with great vet related and non-vet related jokes, unfortunately Chris was not quite so comically blessed).
- The enders singing and dancing two boy-band numbers (highly amusing).
- Jenny and sarah singing Mariah wotshername’s Xmas song.
- The new vet band Blue Juice (debut performance and really good).
- Me and Em singing a counting crows duet.
So as you can see an amazing diversity of performances.
The evening was intended to be a light hearted talent contest type evening but without the competitive edge. However I did involve the judgement of Professor Domingo Tortonese to add another aspect to the evening. He awarded the following prizes…
Best overall performance…JP
Most entertaining act…Enders Take That rendition.
Most talented performance…Me and Em (no bribe I assure).
The night ended off with an after party at my house, where we all got hideously drunk at and played limbo…which was nice.

Other important non-work related occurrences over this past week include Paul and I getting wasted last night in front of the tele and then making it for last orders at the Crown, which we decided to take round to the guys in John’s car…fairly random. Then spent the evening playing guitar and decorating the guys lounge with paper chains and beer cans (their tree looks awesome).

Thursday night I had a pleasant evening in Bath with Hayley, getting a bit of last minute Xmas shopping in (which I’ve now finally completed after today’s Cribs excursion plus ice rink trip). Bath is really impressive as far as Xmas decorations and lighting goes. They’ve placed a very Christmassy outdoor market around the Abbey, which Hayley and I spent the majority of our time pottering around (so to speak…basically I bought food and mulled wine and Hayley went from one jewellery store to the next).

The only critical work related item to mention is Pathology DSE (which I’ve handed in today). For this we get given a tissue sample and slide and have to write a short report on pathology seen and possible aetiology. I received a section of lung from a ragdoll breed of cat. From the microscope I diagnosed diffuse, probably acute, interstitial pneumonia and from the macroscopic section consolidation and pneumonia. The sample was taken from a kitten which died following pyrexia and dyspnoea (fever and shortness of breath). Many other kittens in the litter also died from the disease.
I’ve diagnosed feline calicivirus, will see whether this is correct or not when I get my report back next term.

Only thing left to mention is the social life this upcoming week, with Xmas dinner tonight, clinical panto tomorrow, xmas party in Bristol Wednesday and the last night of term Thursday. Could be a broke much subdued Pete driving home Friday.