So it is Sunday once again after another semi-boring week. I had my human anatomy exam on Monday morning. I think it went okay, but I haven't gotten the results back yet. I'm not sure when we're getting them either. I'm hoping for tomorrow, but I don't know. Technically they have 3 weeks to get any graded work back to us, but as it was a test where you either got the answer right or not, I don't think it should take that long to grade. It was a pretty nerve wracking experience because there were 40 stations and you had 1 minute at each one to fill out the answer. Most wanted to know what the bone was, what side it was from, and what muscle attached to it. I felt pretty confident with quite a few of them, so hopefully that confidence was warranted :S After the exam I went home and did pretty much nothing for the rest of the day. My brain was fried from all the studying.
Tuesday I had my animal anatomy class. We have an exam in that one this week, so I've been studying for that. I don't think that it will be quite as hard or nerve wracking though because we get 3 hours for 40 identifications and 10 tooth wear analyses. That's just over 3 minutes per bone. There is a lot more to write about each bone, but that also means that if you don't get through all of the bones you can still do well if you are very thorough on the bones that you do get done. Plus we can use all of the reference collections and any notes or drawings or anything else that we want to bring with us to the exam. So its much less stressful. But I'll still be in the lab for most of the afternoon on Monday studying for it.
Wednesday a few of us went to lunch at the Thai restaurant in Poole. I got dumplings and green curry and it was really good. And we got a two course meal for only 6.95, which is a pretty great deal. After lunch we stopped at some of the shops on the high street on the way home. Then I had to head to campus because I had some stuff to do at the library and then I had choir and then I always meet a friend to watch a foreign film. This week it was Waltz With Bashir, which was really depressing.
Thursday I had to spend the day in research methods classes. We had to go in at 11am for an ethics lecture. The room was a bit small for all the people that needed to fit into it, but we were making due. Then when the lecturer, who is the head of the forensic program, came in he decided that all of the environmental people, museum studies and "osteology" needed to leave because the room was too small. He said he'd try to reschedule the lecture. Maybe for later that day. First of all, my program is not called osteology. I don't think that there is an osteology program offered at this school. Second he was so rude about the whole thing is made everyone really mad. And third, if he had scheduled it for later that day how were we suppose to know about it, was he going to call each one of us and inform us that it had been rescheduled? Only the forensics students were allowed to stay for his talk. The rest of us went off to bitch about him. Later that day we had a lecture about databases and how to use them. It was a bit long, but very useful for me because I will definitely need to be using them. Thursday night I went over to my friend Danielle's flat because we were planning a trip to Wales for this coming weekend. But all the train tickets that we found were really expensive. So then we started looking for other places to go. We looked at Scotland and France, but neither were really doable. Danielle has a friend in Dublin though and we found plane tickets for 75 pounds round trip. So she emailed her friend to see if we could stay with her if we went to Dublin.
Friday we had an even longer day of research methods. We had a 2 hour experimental design lecture in the morning and then a 3 hour statistics class in the afternoon. The first lecture was interesting, but not really that useful. The second lecture was really boring, but did remind me of some of the statistics stuff that I know. I have to look for my old book when I get home for Christmas. Then we had our rescheduled ethics lecture from 4-5. Most people had already skipped by this point so there were probably only 50 people there. He went on and on about the history of ethics and got into philosophy when all we needed were the ethics rules set out by the university on how to do research. Then his lecture ran long. The bus back to Poole only comes once every hour in the evening and it comes at 10 after the hour. So a bunch of us got up and left at 5 after 5 to go catch the bus. I guess it was kind of rude, but after how he had treated us the day before none of us felt bad about it. Friday night I went out with some girls to a pub in Poole. We got nachos and drinks and it was a nice time.
Saturday my flatmate and another friend went out to lunch. We wanted to go to the Chinese buffet, but there was a line out the door just to get a table. So we ended up going to an Indian place instead. Overall it was a pretty awful experience. When we walked in the place smelled a bit funny. We thought maybe it was just at the entrance, but it wasn't. It just all smelled vaguely of wet dog. But we already had menus and stuff so we felt like we had to stay. Then there were two little kids running around and screaming. That was really annoying. The food was pretty good, but when we asked the waiter to pack up the leftovers he refused to give us seperate containers because he said that our food was pretty similar so he'd just mix it together into one container. It was bizarre. Luckily neither me nor Baitalikee had eaten straight out of the dishes and we live together. Then while they were clearing the plates another man that worked there came up and touched the belt that I was wearing and told me it was nice. This was creepy, but I said thanks. Then he went on the say that it was nice because it held my stomach in, which was mostly just insulting and again creepy. Then he just kind of kept standing there. So all in all, it wasn't a good experience and I will not be going back there.
Then we went to the theatre because we were going to see The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus. Someone had told me that it was strange and she didn't really like it that much, but I loved it. The people that I went with liked it as well. Two of the girls were then going to see 2012 that evening, but I can't see that one on principle because in the trailers they call the Maya "the world's oldest civilization" Which is the most ludicrous thing I've ever heard. There are a million civilizations older than the Maya. The Maya were only a few hundred years ago.
Today I have to do a ton of reading so that I can take back all the library books that are due this week. I also have to look over all of my notes for my test on Tuesday. Then this evening I'm hosting Breakfast for Dinner. I'm making french toast with fruit and whipped cream, sausage and bacon. Then after dinner Danielle and I are going to book our flight to Dublin. (Assuming the tix are still available. I hope so!) We'll be leaving early Wed morning and coming back early Sunday morning. So you should have some really cool pictures and stories to look forward to next week.
Well, I suppose that's all I have. I should get back to some actual work. Hope everyone is doing well and I hope to hear from you soon!
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