Day one of exams down, one to go!!

The exam was ok but you know how it is, can always be better :)

Anyways back to the books for the last day, cant wait till it is all done! Remind me why I decided to do a masters???

It is now 10pm. First exam is tomorrow at 10. 12 hours to go!!!

I feel like I have nothing of relevance in my head at all. On the up side we had a great dinner tonight. Home made cottage pie with salad, it was great!

We then had raspberries with home made chocolate sauce. Well the cause was actually just a bar of chocolate with some milk, all melted down in the microwave so nothing fancy but it tasted really really good.

We are going to have pancakes and maple syrup for breakfast tomorrow as a pre torture treat!

Also am worried that i will have a hard time sitting still for 3 hours after the amount of juice and stuff I have been drinking!!

Anyways, will let you all know how it goes.

Night night

LouX

It is now Sunday afternoon and I am feeling rather nervous and sick. My brain is fairly mushy and I just want to be able to go out in to the sun (it is really hot down here) and just relax. No exams to worry about and no work to do. Iwould be happy with one day!

Not going to happen though. Exams are over Tuesday and I am straight back inthe lab on Wednesday to do my project. I won't be done with that till September and summer will be over by then! Ah well, we shall see what September brings!

Enjoy your day

LouX

Well, another week down.

This week has consisted of getting up studying, eating studying eating studying watching green wing and sleeping. This unfortunatly makes for a poor story to tell.

Some interesting things however that have happened are
- I managed all by myself, well mostly, to get my web cam up and running so now those of you who have engaged in the latest Skype technology can see my beautiful mug staring back at you when we chat :)
- I went on a jolly jaunt around North West London to try and find a package full of contact lenses which my mother had put the wrong address on :-P
- Sara and I went for mango juice at the local mediterranean
- We have also drunk more than our body weights in orange squash and so are spending whatever time we are not studying in the toilet!
- We have become expert salad chefs
- We didn't leave Kentish Town all week, the most exciting trip we got was to Iceland where we had the most unbelievably rude checkout girl on the planet!

Anyway back to the books, might post some pictures in a bit.

LouX

Well folks!

here is the second part of my Blog thingy :)

Bit more on the backgroud, I'm from Aberdeen originally, Scottish all the way, although a friend of my dear Jeremy thought I was Chinese which I thought was strange but ah well :) Jeremy and I will have been together for 8 months a week on Sunday and all is great! He is in his second year of a physics PhD at Imperial College.

So at the mo I'm studying for exams, going ok but sure I dont know anything! Jeremy is now in Spain, good for the lack of distraction but not good when I want a hug! He is making me jealous cause he said it is fab weather, the place and the food are nice and he hardly has any lectures. It is just basically a holiday camp. He does have work to do though so wont be really lazy :) They also have an outdoor swimming pool which sounds fab and I think will be slightly nicer to swim in than the serpentine!!

For those who do not know the Serpentine, it is the lake in Hyde Park, and the swimming team are training in it for the supposed channel swim that we are meant to be doing in about a month. Don't think it will happen as we still have no money because we cant get organised but nevermind! The lake comes complete with a bucket and a half of algae person and who knows what else.

It is so hot down here, I have no idea what it is like back home but it is burning weather here. Feel like I'm close to melting. It is great, just a pity we need to study just now. My flatmate Sara and I tried studying in Hampstead Heath yesterday but that didn't really work. It was too hot and we ended up just staring into space.

Today we also tried the local library which was highly amusing. I have never been in one like it. They have wooden floors so whenever anyone walks over it they make a racket, also the staff were the noisiest people in there, shouting to each other and there were deliveries coming in all over the place. basically it wass a bit odd. We are going to head down first thing in the morning to see if it is any better then. Well it will be 10 o'clock cause the lazy sod's dont open till then :)

Anyways Enough for one night I think, back to the lecture notes!

Sweet Dreams

LouX

Ok well here goes!

This is the first post and I suppose if Neal can do it so can I

So, for those who need a heads up, I did my undergrad at Paisley in microbiology. I spent a year in Yorkshire working after my third year then went back to finish my honours. I am now studying a masters in molecular biology in London at the School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. I am really enjoying it here, met loads of fab people blah blah all the usual stuff, but miss all the Paisley lot heaps and heaps!! You guys know who you are So I am studying for exams just now, which I am pretty nervous about, but hopefully they should be ok, and they will be over two weeks today wooo!!

I am also a swimmer, I trained with City of Aberdeen Swim Team (COAST) for lots and lots of years before uni, then gave it up to enjoy my uni life. Now that I am a serious post-grad student I have decided to take it up again. I swim with London University Swiming Team (LUST).

Well I don't feel so scared of these things now so there may be future posts to read!

Hope your all happy

Lou X