Finally I’ve managed to get some time to sit down and once again poor out my immensely interesting life. This is obviously a sarcastic comment as the principal thing taking place, again, has been revision. Though I suppose there are a couple of social events to mention plus maybe a bit of Xmas and New Yr to consider…

I’ll get the work part out the way first, which as I mentioned has revolved around revision, this time for a Pathology exam and practical, and a veterinary public health (VPH) exam. Revision’s taken 3wks-ish which I spent at home, this may have been slightly ott as the exams actually went pretty good…
The written for Pathology was worth 40% and the practical 20%, the other 40% was done in the 1st term and in 3rd Yr. Written went really well considering how ridiculously difficult pathology is, questions involved the inflammatory reaction, lymphoma classification, diabetes mellitus, neoplasia development, plus others. Unfortunately the practical went unsurprisingly bad, though as 99% of the yr has this concern I’m not overly worried. Reason it was so bad is that histopathology is without doubt the most brain paralysing subject ever created and to learn for it is equivalent to slowly and repeatedly banging ones head against a wall. Just above this on the boredom scale lies histology, but as I passed this somehow in second yr things might be ok, will have to wait and see till Wednesday when the viva lists come out.
As for VPH we had only one written exam which though was incredibly tedious went fine. Three hours of answering questions such as “devise a cleaning regime for a chicken processing plant” or “explain how drip rate and carcass colour are related in pig meat” are far from any sane person’s idea of an interesting subject.
One big bonus about these exams is that I’ve finally got my head around Pathology and so can understand and keep up with companion and farm animal science lectures.

Before revision started I actually managed to achieve a slight Xmas and New Yr. Xmas was all fun and appropriately family orientated. I managed to bag myself a record player plus the beginnings of a rapidly expanding vinyl collection.
New Yr involved a meal out in Belper with Hayley at a surprisingly nice Thai restaurant (for Belper that is), and then on to Belper’s one token bar/club/hole to see in the New Yr with Rich, Hannah, Hayley and friends.
Before Xmas I worked at the workshop conference in Nottingham, not much to say here really, except hard work and some slight debt removing income.
One other important event to mention is mine and Rich’s one mid-revision indi night out into Derby, where I let off a lot of revision stress with much comedy dancing, and ended up bringing some random Derby lass back to Holbrook for essential apre-drinking tea, nothing underhand a might add we just wanted the lift home.

Right now I’m back in Langford Vet School typing away on schools comps as my lap-top keyboard has broke, though that’s a slight exaggeration as it still works, you just have to have the touch of a giant to get a letter to come up.
Since I’ve been back there’s been one pretty awesome night out on Friday (post-exam drinking). We all got mini-buses into Bristol and went pretty wild. Nothing scandalous took place but overall had a much needed awesome night.

Coming up there’s work, work, work and maybe some social life thrown in. Lectures have re-started and they’re amazingly relentless, 9-5 and all hardcore fairly un-miss-able. Current subjects include eye, nose and throat surgery, equine medicine and renal medicine.
Coming up on the social side…
Tonight a bunch of us are off to see the rakes in Bristol.
Over the weekend my little bro is over which should be cool as hopefully there’s to be a lads night Friday in Bristol which I’m organising and there’s a barn dance type thing in Langford on Saturday night.

Next time I write I’ll remember to mention the panto, and the pressing importance of the final written CAS and FAS exams (just put this in as a memo to be honest).