Drawing Pins

I got a drawing pin stuck in my shoe whilst clearing out the last of the rubbish at my old flat. It reminded me of back in the days when girls thought it was cool to stick drawing pins into ugly black school shoes to seem 'cool'. I was one of them.

I've had a horrendously long day at work, good thing I've finalised my temporarily home move into a friends. =P

The Start

This morning we collected tens of thousands of nematode worms and infected 48 rats with approximately 500 worms each =O the squealing was a little bit upsetting but the good thing is, the infection won't kill the rats.... we will ='( apparantely we kill them either by CO poisioning (or was it CO2...?), injecting them with a mild anesthetic or other mean ways.... the quickest way according to the professor is actually a quick break of the neck but I think I would never be able to do that, the poor mites.

So today was D-day =P 5 days on, the infections will take place and we will start culturing their poopies, we do 4 kills of 12 rats spread out during the month to dissect their guts *eek* and fingers crossed we will have some nice graphs at the end of this month! I'm rather excited at starting the experiment after 2 weeks of 'training'!!

Mum's coming tomorrow and I have a few days off work so I can actually have some fun and eat some proper food! Lots on this weekend! I have a first aid training day in Cardiff on Saturday and on Sunday I'm officially moving house-ish and will finally have internet back, here's to hoping.... but until then I'm off to a friend's birthday party tonight and am going to be very very sad and go home now to eat and play feeding frenzy 2!!!! w00t! oh aren't I just the most awesomest? ^_~Y

Not enough time

There is just not enough time in the world. I was making a list of all the things that I have to accomplish in what seems like too little time. I have 2 exams looming on the horizon with minimal revision being done for them and also some coursework which I said would be started 34 minutes ago exactly. Normally I'm ok with courseworks but unfortunately this one which is worth a good 6% of my degree I have no idea where to start with; I don't think it helps that our experiment went disastrously wrong.

On a different note, I'm still ill... I sincerely hope that I have not somehow contracted swine flu in my days of travel but we're all inevitably going to get it right? Have no fear, 'stiff upper lip' as I like to say. I'm going to spend the rest of my sunday slavishly hacking away at "work" whilst farming and stealing crops on Facebook (oh how I'm painting a brilliant picture of myself on here....) and so I shall leave it at that.

Note to self: try not to make the world think you're a crazy person.

I tried to make myself better by eating healthily yesterday and supplementing it with a good 'ol swig of chinese hebal medicine (because obviously that's what's going to make me better...).... for breakfast (YES BREAKFAST- I hardly ever have breakfast but i thought it would be a first after 14.5 hours of snoozing) I managed to somehow poach 2 eggs and sat them on a beautiful bed of lambs lettuce with a wholemeal bap hmmmmmm!! I found some awesome mackerel fillets to defrost and happily made lunch with that but kinda gave up on dinner and went for the ever so easy studently meal of instant noodles *sigh* I was doing so well....

I tried to make porridge this morning but my lactose intolerance nearly killed my bowel and have subsequently not eaten anything since *palm on forehead*.

I don't think I realised just how salty the fish was....

Don't you even try to deny it, everybody loves instant noodles.

It was healthy.... til i doused it in sugar, honey and a truckload of jam.

'Un'eventful summer

I think it's about time I started another blogger just so that people who I may know or may not know can have a little insight into the life of me ... for this summer anyway =P My summer holidays are not really holiday per say, the fact that I have to work monday-friday 9-5pm (ok that's an over exaggeration, maybe it's more 10-4.30pm with a 3 hour break in the middle =P) is a kind of killjoy in the season of holidaying and fun.... oh well, this is what one has to do to get to half of where they want to get to.

A little about me? Just finished my 2nd year studying the joyous degree of Biology and currently I am doing research on lab mice (albino ones with red eyes) and parasitic nematode worms that inhabit them (or rather ones that we inject into them). Most of my day is collecting and counting worms in the their poo and trying very hard (and most of the time failing) to identify males from females.... I am also studying for 2 exams that are needed for graduate medicine and also trying furiously to finish (or start) my hardcore coursework which I should've finished about 2 weeks ago.

Here I will update every day with my rants (maybe about rats) and maybe a few food posts as I am rather in love with food, living to eat =)

I don't expect anyone to actually read this but it's here because I don't really want to spam my actual 'thoughtful' blog with random thoughts that I have running around my head.