Living

January 17, 2010 on 5:45 pm | In Life | 7 Comments

Life at the moment can only be described by the phrase ‘crazy busy’. I, on the other hand, do not seem to be as crazy busy as I need to be. Sure, I’m writing a couple of A4 pages of notes a day, and I’m out the door at 8am and back through it somewhere around 3 every day, but I’m just not as busy as I should be, and I know it. I’ve got a LOT to learn this year, and I’m not even kidding – our exams at the end of the year are the most serious we’ll get before membership exams in however-many-years time. Even finals pale in comparison, or so I’m told. The Intermediates are synoptic; they can contain anything we’ve learnt in the first three years from molecular cell biology and theoretical physiology through to hands-on clinical skills and diagnostic knowledge. It’s a lot to know, to link together and hold on to when more learning threatens to tear the older stuff away.

I could go on and on about all the stuff I have to learn, but I won’t because it’s boring.* Instead, I shall leave it with a pictorial representation of how much there is for me to know. I need to know, basically, the information on every single page of every single on of these texts:

There’s a bit of overlap, but that’s basically it. The top one I need to know at the drop of a hat, the others need just a working grasp of their contents. Should be interesting.

That, of course, is not the only aspect of living at the moment. There’s the social side of things, which currently is adequate but far from perfect. D and I are no longer together, due to circumstances beyond our control resulting in her being a good three hours away on a constant basis for the forseeable future. I’m sure given the opportunity to have a solid basis the whole LTR thing might have worked, but seeing as we’d only really been together for a month and a half when the challenge presented itself we decided to let things lie rather than risk seeing them fade into obscurity. Life is full of fun surprises. No doubt.

Anyway, I’ve written enough and I’m tired and I’ve got a load of washing to take out and a lot of Spanish to do. Basically got to sit down and learn the whole module. Terrific.

If I’m not about much, the above is all why!

Hasta luego.

*the going on about it, rather than the actual stuff which is brilliant.

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  1. My thoughts on you and D, unresolved situations, the future, and all things like that, is, que sera, sera. If you’ve got a reason to work out as a couple in the future, if whatever you had together is still tehre when you’re next more local to one another, then it’ll happen. If not, then no, but nor will it seem to matter so much, because it won’t be worth trying for. By and large this rule has worked out for me pretty well. After all, you and I are still friends! xxx

    Comment by Jenny — January 17, 2010 #

  2. Say what? Jenny and Callan were more than friends at one point?
     
    And good luck with the rest of it, of course.

    Comment by Flix — January 17, 2010 #

  3. Say hmmm I forget people don’t know this, although nothing ever really came of it. Long story indeed filled with bad timings and teenage angst and some very powerful outbursts from both sides, now settled into simplicity.
     
    And that luck I’ll need more than you can imagine!

    Comment by Callan — January 17, 2010 #

  4. This smile :) is because a small part of me is interminably smug and thinks your pile of books is weedy. You should see the one approximately eight inches to my right at this very moment. If only land law were even the slightest bit more interesting than it sounds. But good luck to you, sir, you are of course utterly competent. It’ll be an absolute ball. As for the rest, no puedo comentar…

    Comment by Fiona — January 17, 2010 #

  5. For the most part the rest of my modest library remains on the shelf for obscure reference use only, but I believe it’s fairly well known that lawyers get insane amounts of reading! It’s the cross-linking complexity of all the medicine that I find daunting, and the fact that I need to know it all back to front and upside down and even when it doesn’t really look like that but it’s still that disease.
     
    But hey, you’re right, and I will get it all. Hopefully.

    Comment by Callan — January 18, 2010 #

  6. Yeah, I learnt to get angry and used you for practice, I believe… Simplicity is good.

    I don’t know how much stuff I have to learn for my exam in Feb. I’m going with ‘less than you’ and ‘too much’, because I’m lazy and stupid, or something.

    xxx

    Comment by Jenny — January 18, 2010 #

  7. *smirks knowingly at the Jenny/Callan comments*
     
    Good luck with the exams. And Jenny, everyone has their own personal challenges. We simply have to work up to them – talking of which…

    Comment by Lucy — January 20, 2010 #

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