I'm back...

So, nearly 2 weeks after exams finished, what on earth have I been up to? Bullet points methinks...

-Firstly, during exams I managed to (in no particular order) pull the ear off the auroscope dummy, hit myself in the nose with my tendon hammer and introduce myself variously as a first year, a second year and errrr... one of the GPs here, I think. I also spectacularly failed to find a lump in the most ridiculous plastic-breast-things I've ever seen.

-Also, you know you're a medic when... the last line in your exam paper is the patient died. You know you're a Glasgow medic when... the last line is the patient died at home surrounded by friends and family who had been appropriately counselled.

-Saw In the Loop. Amazing. Best film ever. Learnt some wonderful new insults which I have struggled to avoid using in relation to a certain former minister of mine.

-Enjoyed the shortest post-exam holiday of all time (a leisurely three days), of which a good portion was spent studying.

-Started my next module, community psychiatry. Soundtrack in the car has been somewhat interesting (spotify 'whalefish' by mr scruff for illustration). I am forcefed tea on an approximately hourly basis and spend a couple of soul destroying hours every day reading through the world's longest patient file. Learning a lot, especially about schizophrenia, and looking forward joining in with art therapy on Friday.

-Eating lots of ice cream. Well ice pseudo-cream. Realised how much I love living in the city when I was able to buy vegan ice cream when the fancy took me at quarter to midnight one evening.

-Still entirely in love with St Mary's (or should I say the Episcopal Cathedral of Saint Mary the Virgin?). There is so much love I don't even know where to start, so instead I shall tell you that if you ever visit you should look out for the rocket painted on the ceiling.

-Myself and Holly (with regular guest appearances by Beth, Coralie and Emma) have perfected evensongchipsday. It is a thing wonderful in its simplicity. First there is evensong, then there are chips. Sometimes pakora. Then there is Desperate Housewives (although, the season finale aired last week...*sob*).

-The first barbeque of the season was rained inside, but was awesome nonetheless. Then there was Emma's wonderfully sunny birthday barbeque.

All-in-all a rather spiffy couple of weeks. I have however failed in a most epic manner to return my room to something approaching tidy. I should get on that...