(Quite) exciting things that have happened to me this week… Saturday, 5th September 2009

We got a dog! He’s a collie/lab cross called Diesel and he’s insane. Look…

He’s being bad today though, so I’m not too keen on him at the minute (I’ve never really been a dog person so everytime he barks I decide I don’t like him. )

This week seems to have been a week for me getting back in touch with people. I sent an old internet friend Gabbie a facebook message on Wednesday cause I realised I hadn’t spoken to her for ages. Then that night my friend Maät from New York called me (expensive but very nice ) and then the next day I saw Joe at a chemistry thing at the university. We were quite good friends last year but then he disappeared off the face of the earth for a bit, so it was nice to see he was still alive. (And still an idiot, “Why do they get them and we just have these?” “They’re doing a different experiment Joe, we don’t need them.” “Oh yeah…”)

I’m sure other exciting stuff has happened. Oh, I saw my P5 teacher in New Look on Monday and had a nice chat with her about me being stupidly clever (yes, I realise that’s an oxymoron) and getting straight As. And then we went to the toy shop and bought a box of kids games. We’ve spent all our free periods this week playing Snakes and Ladders and Mousie Mousie. I really do love sixth year.

This week… Sunday, 30th August 2009

…has been quite eventful.

On Monday I was doing work experience at the hospital, which was actually quite fun and I’m certain now I want to do medicine. Although I don’t think I’ll specialise in radiology, I have no idea how they can diagnose anything from the scans. I was in the breast clinic in the morning and managed to get Confessions by Tim Minchin stuck in my head (if you haven’t heard it click here and listen to it, you’ll see how inappropriate it is once you get to the chorus). Then in the afternoon I was in the radiology department and I played hangman with one of the doctors (whose name I can’t remember which is pretty bad) and then outsmarted him when he told me that patients were the most important people who worked on a ward. Then I looked at some scans of brains and pretended I could tell the difference between tumours and the other black bits.

Tuesday was boring. I just got a lot of boob jokes, my friends are so mature . And Wednesday was boring until about 9pm when I suddenly got a boyfriend (well, it wasn’t that sudden, we’ve been flirting for months now, but it gave me a bit of a shock as anyone I was talking to at the time will know).  Thursday was taken up by people interrogating me about getting a boyfriend and Friday was taken up by us all being annoyed at Mr Travis yet again cause he made up a new prefect duty (reading the bulletin out at assemblies ) and instead of giving us all one commitee like we’d been told, we’ve all been given all three of our choices. So now I’m doing: book buddies, charities committee, helping out in younger ones classes (hopefully Miss Hay’s with Kimberley), organising evening events and gold Duke of Ed (from scratch cause I haven’t done bronze or silver). And then two advanced higher sciences with the joys of projects, higher physics, and trying to write a personal statement good enough to get me into medicine. Should be easy .

Today was fun too. Me, Mum and Abi went to the dog shelter in Aberdeen in the morning; then I went to the cinema with Finlay and saw Final Destination which is probably the single worst film I’ve ever seen in my life, it’s so bad it’s funny. And then I got home and my new netbook had arrived. It’s the cutest thing I’ve ever seen, and I’ve nearly got used to the silly little keyboard too.