Pause for breath!

Right ok, I havent really expalined why I am insanely busy.... but as I seem to have a rare moment to myself (2 hours between lectures) I shall go into more detail!
Christmas hols- they were totally manic! I had booked return flights to Jakarta (in Indonesia) with some extremely good friends from Uni as a sort of summer travel reward trip thing- an insentive to work very hard and not fail any exams!!! As I had done this (and also something about drinking most of my overdraft too?!?!) I had a lot of debt to pay off, so I worked.... a lot! I had 2 jobs over the Christmas holidays and stupidly took on too much- but gave myself Christmas Day off. I also had a few days at the end of the holiday too. This time was intended for me to revise for the huge exams we had in January- and these were soooo difficult- I had worked very hard and revised very well for them, but I fear- having now takent them, that no amount of revision would have prepared me for them as there were incredibly difficult questions about subjects we hadn't really covered yet! But never mind.... enough said about that- it is all over and now I have to wait until March to get the results.
In the meantime I am working on a dissertation (a research project with a really long essay at the end of it) on a specific aspect of temperature regulation.... but I havent really made up my mind what to do the project on and the deadline is rapidly aproaching- but I do get to go into surgery to study a bit- as a lot of "open heart surgery" in Brum is done under elective hypothermia- making the patient really cold so they have a much smaller risk of all sorts of things like brain injury (very unteresting). I am also trying to do an audit for my Firm 1 (GP placement) an audit is something that.... welll I din't really know- that is one of the reasons that I am finding it so hard! (the other reason being that I was paired up with someone who is really not pulling their weight and I am having to do their share of the work too) - the deadline for this in in 3 weeks, and I havent really done all of it yet and I still need to leave tiem to write it up- which will probably take me a while. On top of this there is also Family Attachment, don't even get me started on that- just another way for the Uni to make sure we are awake and keep us on our toes... something else to worry about.
It all sint as bad as I make out- it gets a little overwhelming at times, but then again I am notorious for being exceptionally bad at managing my time!!!
On top of this I am on SurgSoc, CAWC and Undergrad Admissions committee- all of which I enjoy, but struggle to fit in.
This term I am on a health drive as I managed to drink myself out of pocket last term (and out of my trowsers too- beer belly!). So along with a little less drinking I am trying to exercise more- so I go swimming about 3 or 4 times a week with my housemate, I still do Hockey and now I go Rock Climbing as often as I can (which is not as often as I would like!).
So- there we have it... a little summary of what I have been getting up to recently, I always have liket to be kept busy, luckily I have been still been able to find time to eat and sleep- just about!;)
Ok, well I shall go now as I need to take a look at some notes for this next lecture- we are on our second cardiovascular module (much moer clinical) and am doing a bit on antiarrhythmic drugs and stuff like that- all very exciting really.
Oh I forgot to mention that in Firm 1 on Tuesday I had to perform some mental state exams- all very cool, quite odd seeing all the ranges of patient though! I need to practice these things now (clinical skills etc) as I will have an OSCE (Objective Struclured Clinical Exam) in March- an OSCE is the way that most (if not all) medical schools use to assess a students ability to perform the basic clinical skills required to be a Dr.
Ok Bye for now!
:) D