Ah dear, a world without lamingtons. How sad!
Lamingtons are made by getting a piece of sponge cake (traditionally a day old) dunking it in a chocolate mixture, then rolling it in coconut. They can also include a filling of cream and/or jam. Lamingtons are bought either from bakeries or from “lamington drives” – an Australian [...]
Archive > March 2006
lamington fingers
no blood today
There was really not much excitement today. My tutorial group (who are all at different hospitals to me) was… were?… was?… The people in my tutorial group were suitably jealous of my vampire impression yesterday.
Ah yes, crispy mint M&Ms. Saw them last week and have been thinking about them ever since. Luckily today was my [...]
hurrah!!
I went on blood rounds this morning and jabbed needles into more people than I can remember!! All were successful except my last three which needed a bit of extra manoevuring from the pathology nurse! The last three were all left arms and the first lots were all right arms. Maybe left arms are harder…
No-one [...]
another highly interesting fact
This morning I woke up and could see abnormally clearly. I realised that I had slept with my contact lenses in. And the horror stories that people had told me about how the lenses would fuse to my eyelids and require surgical extrication did not occur. The lenses slipped out very nicely. I let the [...]
beware!!
I have been rostered as the first person to do the venepuncture mini-elective at the hospital tomorrow (mini-electives only start tomorrow). This involves following the pathology nurse around and getting to jab people with needles. How exciting!!
In other news, we didn’t get to pee in jars yesterday due to a “lack of resources” (ie. [...]
ooooh
I have just downloaded the lab notes for this afternoon and apparently we will be examining our own urine under the microscope today. I don’t imagine there would be much to see in the average person’s urine. Last time I did urine testing at uni was in 3rd year pharmacy when we all had to [...]
lalalala
Currently procrastinating my way through writing up lecture notes on… um… principles of molecular biology. The lecture appears to contain approximately a semester of information on stuff.
Tomorrow we get back the results of our nasal swab cultures from last week. Apparently 86 people in my year were carriers for staph. aureus and 8 of [...]
oops
My lunch bringing triumph ended today when I forgot to take lunch to work. But as I didn’t have time to eat lunch (or dinner), it didn’t really matter as I didn’t buy Pad Thai or fish and chips or any other tasty but not very good for me things.
Yeah. Saturdays at work are crazy. [...]
lalalalalaaaa
My hypochondriameter is working overtime today because the temperature that started my brush with death last week… or the week before… is still here. But I can’t go to a doctor with just a temperature!! That’s even worse than my sore finger when I got back from Vietnam. Ah well. I don’t think it’s bird [...]
where to start?
I am being extremely lax in my studies at the moment (except for the practical components ) due to the horror that is “Foundation Block”. This is basically an introduction to everything. And as you have highly motivated and educated people in the course who want to know everything now, tutorials (which are [...]
