Excuses for why I haven’t blogged for ages…

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I haven’t blogged in over a month. And almost every day I’ve thought to myself ‘I’m going to blog today’ … and then haven’t. On the plus side, I now have LOTS to blog about. (Translation: a long list of excuses for why I haven’t blogged.) (DW – I’ve added lots of cute cat pictures so you don’t get bored!)

Term 2 is now well underway; it’s both better and more effort than the first term. Better because we’re learning about the body systems rather than all the boring A-level-with-added-enzymes stuff we did last term. More effort because we’ve had loads of assignments.

Operalalalalalala *sung to the tune of ‘Deck the Halls’*

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Yesterday I came home for Christmas. Being home is both weird and wonderful.

Weird because first term can’t possibly have gone so quickly, and because living in a village is a bit quiet after London.

But wonderful because I love home: cuddles with my cat, having my family around, making plans to meet up with friends who I haven’t seen for ages, being looked after by my mum, telly (I caught up on Downton Abbey this morning, in time for the Christmas special!) Also, I finally have time to stop – this term has been crazily busy, and while it was mostly crazily fun, having time to catch up on sleep is good too – you can only survive so long on caffeine…

*Excuse to show everyone pictures of my cat*

The problem with having spare time is having time to be ill.

Work (not very) hard. Play (a lot) harder.

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I think I might be the only person I know who wishes Christmas wasn’t so soon.

Don’t get me wrong; I LOVE Christmas. Christmas trees are appearing everywhere (including one that randomly appeared on the kitchen table today); Secret Santas are being arranged; and I’m having lots of Christmas dinners in the next few weeks with lots of lovely people. But I still don’t want Christmas to come.

Kitchen Christmas Tree 🙂

By Christmas, I will have finished my first term at medical school.

Meaning that I only have 17 terms left, which suddenly doesn’t seem very long to learn a lot of stuff.

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