This is only going to be a short entry as I’ve got a lecture in 30mins.
Crucial items of significance to cover might include work, ball, pub crawl, foster practice and ongoing band plus panto fun…

On the work side there isn’t a great deal to say, lectures are continuing 9-5 as standard, though I’m pretty sure I’m very close to reaching my tolerance for them after 4yrs. Thankfully all lectures finish by the end of this term, then it’s onwards and upwards to the clerking rotations of final yr.
Main work area of importance is revision which I’m now feeling the heat of more and more, and therefore have finally started getting some done. Not a great deal I might add though, however having started at last I can maybe try and ease myself into it (or that’s the why I’d like to put it to explain my extremely slow revision start. I’m sure all will be ok though, mates in final yr didn’t start till Easter).

Ball was a good night, though nothing really comedy to mention. Highlight being dancing to the whole of the Mo-Funk set with some 3rd Yrs, both Sinead and I had bruises on our hands the next morning from overly banging the tambourine the front man gave us.
Vet vs Law vs Medic pub crawl was a pretty good night. Everyone gets dressed up in appropriate clothing and competes against the other courses to buy a drink at the most bars (Law tends to win as they’re the only ones who take it seriously, vets and medics tend to stay together in the cheapest bar and get hammered).

The majority of my recent time has been taken up with Foster Practice at home Weds to Fri and then lounging around at home over the weekend getting some highly essential recouporation and rest.
Foster was a good time, highlights included mastering my iv injections and cattle blood sampling and also witnessing a cow cause destruction of a practice car.
My reasoning for doing foster mid-term was that I only did 3days at Christmas (hopefully no supervises will read this) and also it was Mel’s leaving do and Rose’s birthday who are both befriended vets at the practice. The leaving do meal thing was Friday night and was awesome as vets buy lots of drinks! Most comedy point had to be my dance off with the senior small animal partner Paul.

Ongoing areas of importance include band and panto. We had a jam last night and thankfully it went really well (as last weeks jam was shocking). The triple band night “VetAid” is set for the 17th March, will discuss more closer to the time.
Panto efforts are to continue Weds with a second script meeting. The first was really successful as we managed to get loads of ideas together and a basic plot line sorted.

Thursday it’s off to Newcastle to see little brother for 5days, will no doubt include all details of this excursion in great detail next week. After this I suppose it’ll be time to actually start knuckling down and properly getting on with revision.

Tuesday lunch and there’s actually not that much to report for saying a whole weeks gone by, an achievement which doesn’t regularly happen as I normally seem to be constantly rushed of my feet.

Work wise lectures continue to plod on with little much to say; only potential large source of interest for me is small animal orthopaedics this afternoon. It’s an unusual feeling to actually be sort of looking forward to going to a lecture, but then as I hope to go into small animal surgery future wouldn’t look great if I didn’t fancy learning a bit on the subject.
Most pressing work matter is that of revision for CAS and FAS exams at the end of Easter. I’ve tried numerous times now to start this arduous task but am yet successful. The plan is to begin this evening and drown my valentine sorrows with a bit and cattle medicine, oh joy.

Non-work stuff to mention over the past week includes one awesome night out and a highly unproductive weekend.
The night out mentioned was for Claire’s birthday, for which a good 30+ people managed to make it into Bristol using the newfound mini-bus transport system. Nothing especially comedy occurred, it was just one all-round fun night out.
The unproductive weekend involved much 24watching, a bit of exercise and the pub. However Friday night was an unsuspecting good laugh. John took pity on me being home alone for the weekend and invited me out with him, Sue and Sue’s little sister. We drove into to Bristol for food and drink and then returned to the Old Inn to get some pints down John, as the guy was driving. There’s always something really cool about a good night out when one isn’t expected, what was expected to be a quiet meal ended up one comedy night shared by all.

Last important thing to mention before rounding this up is the NME shockwaves tour last night, which was an incredible. Kate’s boyfriend Jack very generously got me and Mat some tickets and the line up included Mystery Jets, We are Scientists, Arctic Monkeys and Maximo Park (which completely ruled the gig, Monkey’s hype took away a bit of the enjoyment, though they were still quality).

Over the upcoming week main point of interest is the ball on Saturday which is always quality.

Today it’s all about swimming, work and pub.

TTFN

Results are in and I’ve made it through another gruelling set of exams. Achievements are a merit in pathology and C in VPH. Both of which I’m really pleased with (as Pathology is incredibly difficult and VPH is amazingly dull. Onwards and upwards now to CAS and FAS exams which take place at the end of Easter i.e. not long at all, so unfortunately revision is going to have to once again begin soon. The most daunting fact of all is however that once these last set are done in only a few months I should theoretically know all I need to begin practicing. Thankfully though there’s the year of clerking to look forward to when hopefully all the info will maybe become part of my general knowledge and not just some facts and figures learnt to forget after an exam.
I feel that after that exam rant that work over this week should probably follow, though there’s not really that much to tell. ENT (ear, nose and throat) is continuing in its highly exciting fashion, we’ve now received the lecture notes for the subject which reside in a mega beast 183 page booklet (with no pictures!!). The lectures for the subject aren’t too bad as no extra notes are obviously necessary plus the lecturer is interesting, the only complaint is the volume of them. We’ve a full morning of ENT today and have another Thursday.
Other current subjects include equine medicine, which is going well (mainly because we’re forced to write notes, and so it’s easy to stay awake), and exotics (a ferret and guinea pig lecture yesterday).

Big talking point for this entry is another brother weekend of fun and antics. However this time the weekend was extended as he arrived Friday morning and went home last night.
Over the weekend the activities included:
- Friday day Rich and I went for a walk to the crown but managed to get lost over the fields on Jim’s crazy route. However once navigation had been sorted we located the pub and met useful guy who took it upon himself to organise our site-seeing weekend.
- Friday night I organised a lads night out into Bristol, including mini-buses, curry, bar crawl and club. The night was an absolute success and fun was had by all (even if I say so myself). Comedy occurrences included Steve’s curry spillage, Jim getting kicked out of Wedges, Hugo’s and Ian’s standard jokes, and the loss of many good men in Bristol for which Tom conducted a minutes silence for on the return trip. We lost Mat for most of the night to a Gay bar but apparently he had a good night so all well.
- Saturday day was predicated by the crown guy, it involved a drive to a cider farm plus cooked breakfast, and then over to Wookie Hole for much touristy fun. Mat accompanied me and Rich on the trip, and I thing it was agreed by all that Wookie Hole is a quality place for an afternoon out. Attractions there included caves, underground rivers, a fairy garden, dinosaur valley, the chance to make paper!, a run through the mirror maze if you dare, and those crazy distorting mirrors that everyone loves.
- Saturday night was the Hungarian Folk dance at Langford, not a bad night though no Hungarians arrived. Unfortunately some people got a bit rowdy and damage was created, this has now led to the bar being shut straight after licensing hours finish, worse things at sea and all that.
- Sunday me and Rich drove over to Weston for fish and chips at the sea side and a look round SeaQuarium, which was surprisingly good for Weston.
- Sunday night was relaxation and films, an early night was essential due to general tiredness felt by both members of the Scales party.
In summary another awesome weekend with Rich, next one to occur beginning of March when I fly over to see him in Newcastle.

Only other things left to mention are that Panto and band organisation is yet to occur, hopefully we’ll jam this week and I’ll get an e-mail out to find out if Andy and I are organising the Panto officially or not,

Tonight everyone’s out for Claire’s Birthday, Bristol again, should be a good one.