The end of the "holidays"

In my glass: water
From my iPod: High Hopes, by Pink Floyd
From my bookshelf: anatomy
Outside: sunny
My mood: alright
Today's hairstyle: a nautilus on wet (just washed) hair with my emergent glassworks octopus stick
So, we're into the first week back at uni, and its already Wednesday before I've managed to get around to posting on here. Wow things have been busy.
As you will know from my last post, I was just heading off to spring camp with the OTC last time you heard from me. It was cold. And I mean really cold. There was snow on the ground for the whole exercise, and stag duty at 2.30am was really not fun in -5 degrees. My ankle was painful and I couldn't do a lot of the exercise, since even though I was popping painkillers, paracetamol and ibuprofen don't seem to help much, and my ankle was getting more swollen by the day. I believe there were a couple of injuries, and a couple of people came off sick, one possibly with the very beginnings of hypothermia. I think it was the cold that made most people miserable to be honest. To say it was challenging would be an understatement.
On the upside, I passed my MOD2 exam, so a pay rise is on the horizon. YAY, more money! I need it desperately.
It seems that Basel is off for us this year, sadly. We're hoping to get to go to Edinburgh tattoo, but we don't know yet. I just hope we get to go to something this summer, since I've held off on a summer job in the hope that we are going, and its soon going to be too late for me to get one if we lose the job.
In other news, university is back, as stressful as ever. We had our mid-term physiology exam on Tuesday (our second day back) and I have no idea whether it went well or absolutely awful. I guess we will just have to wait and see. I'm tempted to say it went ok, but anatomy has so far proved to me that I'm not the best judge of my own grades in tests.
Tomorrow we have our final lab for Energy For Life,, then we have a week to write up our report. So far just about every lab has been a disaster - I think the enzymes have degenerated too much. So this report could be FUN....
Oh, and there's the tai chi trip just before my exams. Hopefully it will help me relax a bit and be less stressed out, and I'm sure I can still find time to revise, since everyone will have exams on then too.
In the meantime, I have sailing theory to read up on, and a youth band practice in Glasgow at the weekend (involving getting a train at 5.30am, with band kit, and knowing there's a possibility of having to fix the harness back to fit me, since no doubt someone will have changed it again, with me having been away so long). Plus, I don't know how many people re left that I will even know. I must be one of the longer serving members now, and the band had a whole overhaul in members over the winter. Hopefully this increase in pay at the OTC will free me up a little more for youth and stuff in the future. Mind you, perhaps if I book the October trains now I will get a decent price. Hmm.
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