Mork & Mindy

It seemed like this day would never come, but this week is my last week of Med Year 1! I’m highly excited and pleased and I can’t wait for the exams to be over so that I can start doing some stuff that I’ve been wanting to do for ages.

I like lists so I shall list the things I want to do:

1. Sew! I’m planning on learning how to sew dirndls. Progress will probably be slow, especially since I can only sew when my grandmother is not around (or she will hover and be annoying).
2. Practice my guitar skills. While said “skills” may be presently non-existent, I plan to acquire skills then practice them! And stretch my fingers out so that they can reach frets more than 1 space apart.
3. Frolic in the sun and do summery things. This is what I want to do the most – just lounging around and being happy that there is absolutely nothing for me to do. Except lounge and enjoy myself, obviously. And eating ice cream.
4. Maybe road trip? Might organise something with my high school friends, and with Mark.
5. Study some anatomy. An optional task, of course, but I think I will feel much better about Year 2 if I get a headstart on anatomy. My love-hate relationship with anatomy is currently in phase “like”, hopefully it won’t wane to “hate” before the exam!

And things that I have to complete before the ghastly and horrid exam/OSCEs:

1. Weeks 8-13 of this semester, plus Weeks 1-5 of this semester too. I’ve decided to forgo revising Semester 1, since that is a mammoth task in itself and there is not much benefit in study Semester 1 material since the exam will predominantly be testing Semester 2 content.
2. All my Epidemiology content. I’ve been rather slack this half-semester and I have yet to touch the textbook even once. Hopefully Judy’s teachings are sufficient for me to pass the Theme II section of the upcoming exam.
3. Anatomy. Again, it rears its ugly head.
4. Practice clinical skills. This means I have to get my hands on a stethoscope and a sphyg (blood pressure thing). Mark can be the person I practice limb examinations on, although he does get squeamish when I touch his legs.

I went to Mark’s yesterday and we made beef kofta on skewers, tabbouleh, and hummus b’tahini. The hummus was fantastic. We then watched the latest episode of Glee (on my laptop) and X-Men: The Last Stand (on television).

A bit of plastic has come loose off my car and is scraping on the ground everytime I reverse out of my driveway. Rather worrying.