First week back and I’m exhausted already. I mean, loving it, but exhausted. And now I’ve got that Sunday afternoon feeling where anything (chocolate, facebook, google earth, even tidying and cleaning) is more appealing than sitting for another day looking at… er… microbiology. We spent a lot of this week culturing bacteria, only to be told ‘oh no, you’ll never actually use this in practice’. Marvellous. Still, I can understand why they do it – they’re training us to come out of vet school with a broad knowledge and the preparation needed to go into a huge range of areas of vet med, and chances are that a handful of us will end up in labs. Hopefully not me, but never say never. And it wasn’t all lab stuff – we’ve been doing equine rostral maxillary sinus trephination, which is a posh way of saying ‘drilling a hole into a horse’s head’. And this coming week we’re looking at intubation and endoscopy – exciting stuff! 
In other news, I’m loving being back at choir. In a few weeks’ time we’re doing Domenico Scarlatti’s Stabat Mater for 10 voices (with only 18 people in the choir!) – first three movements here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soz-nsntNQg. Fac me, I’m excited about it. (And yes, I know I’m a geek).
I’ve also been out for a run or two this week, and been feeling good for it (until today’s Maltesers binge anyway). I want to do more, but the thing is, I hate people seeing me looking like a sweaty heffalump. So I have this mad idea that I will therefore go before lectures one or two mornings a week… will it materialise?? We will have to wait and see. Any words of encouragement on a postcard please…
