lunar.soliloquy

Greetings, fellow bloggers, friends and bored people to my world. I previously had my blog over at Windows Live Spaces, but due to various technical problems (ie. random crashing, laggy interfaces and lack of autosaves resulting in the loss of large amounts of text when the former presented itself) my motivation to blog was lost. Laziness and general procrastination playing a minor role, my space has not seen a single post in over a year. Perhaps Spaces has improved since then but I was keen to try something new, and Blogger does seem to be one of the more popular blogging tools on the web. Apologies for the rather plain layout and design, when I get time later I will look into making things a little more pleasant to the eye but for now you'll have to bear with me.

I won't bore you with the details of my life's story so I'll jump right into the scene right now. It's the Sunday of the first week back at uni (Second semester) and so far it's been pretty cruisy with only a few classes to attend (in the mornings usually, hurts the holiday sleep patterns but free afternoons are nice). The first 2 days back were spent doing a Quality and Safety course which all 3rd year medicine, pharmacy and nursing students (in no particular order) had to attend as part of our training (I think they emailed us about 3 times saying attendance was compulsory). Basically we were learning about how to handle medical error, assess risks in health policy and practice and work in a multidisciplinary environment. Generally the speakers were quite good (fell asleep in a couple of the afternoon ones though) and the refreshments were tasty (albeit scarce), making it a nice easy start to the semester. I did feel that the venue was unnecessarily extravagant, however. Surely a short 2-day seminar could have been held at, say, Tamaki (as like Maori Health Week last year) and the money saved used for better things such as printing costs for MBCHB 305 COURSEBOOKS WHICH WE HAVEN'T EVEN BEEN GIVEN AND ITS THE SECOND WEEK ALREADY??!! /rage.

Being a light first week back, I have been out a bit with friends which has been nice. Usually semester is so busy that I hardly see my non-med friends beyond bumping into each other on campus in which case we're usually both busy with uni stuff. Even during the holidays it's hard to keep in touch since I'm usually back in Rotorua with my parents, and the fact that I tend to procrastinate in general doesn't help. Hulucat Tea House is an awesome place to hang out, perhaps I could get some mahjong and card/board games going there in the future...

Doujin Overload was good fun like last year, bought a calendar and some bookmarks (which I'll probably lose within the next 6 months) with some really awesome artwork on them. Even if you're not otaku enough to understand the random in-jokes or know the manga the characters are from almost anyone with eyes can appreciate the creativity and skill demonstrated by those works of art (just as anyone with ears can appreciate a good piece of music). I never took up art seriously myself, but I know from my pianist years that its one of those things where all people see is the end product, and not all the hours, days and late nights spent making it into what it is.

Well I think it's about time I got back to some work, and perhaps turn in early for that 8 o'clock start tomorrow. Good night, and thanks for reading.

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