...no, not Christmas. Exams *sigh*. Hehe, I remember starting this blog in the middle of my last set of exams because I was so bored of studying. Now that we are near the end of a semester, I don't think I hate my course as much as I did earlier in the year. I might not have worked very hard, but as we approach the end of week 13, even pharmacokinetics is starting to make a little bit of sense. (Wow, I never thought I'd say that.) And you know, it is quite useful to be learning about drugs...I mean, they are what is keeping a large proportion of the population from dropping dead any minute. And as we learnt from the EU public meeting this week (on the *bodily* resurrection of Jesus from the dead), it makes sense for us to not only be concerned about the spiritual, but also for the physical. Physicality can be grieved, and rejoiced over.
I guess the thing about pharmacy is that it's all very concerned with maximising people's quality of life. (I suppose this would be similar for lots of other courses as well...) Whether it's just treating something symptomatically, or slowing the progression of the disease, it's about giving people the right treatment so they can have a better and longer life. Which I suppose is a very noble cause and everything, but in the end, no matter how many drugs you take, there is no drug that can save you from death. You can delay it, you can make it less painful, but it still happens.
Yayness.
Now on to brighter things that have been happening...Pharmacy in EU is getting big enough to become it's own EU faculty! :) In the past we've been rolled in with all the people in the Science faculty (which has been good, since as the biggest faculty in EU, Science are guaranteed to get non-dodgy rooms at Ancon, plus they've won the Lukabyo Cup for like three years in a row...), but now with a whole stack of first years having joined EU this year, four pharmacy small groups and the setting up of a pharmacy faculty planting team, we have started on the road to independence. And we get our own faculty time at Ancon this year! Awww...we'll miss you science people...
It's so cool that as first years, we were the first real pharmacy small group in ages, and now just two years later, we're big enough to be thinking of starting our own EU faculty! Yay for God and yay for pharmacy! Hehe, how exciting :)
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Yeah, that was the first time I heard him speak, he's very good...I was going to go a second time, but didn't in the end. Must listen to it again when it comes up on the website...
bwahahaha....president and 'first lady'...and what does that make you? the monkey's uncle? :P
"Childbirth in reverse"...well, I think I'll leave Pun to comment on that one...hmmm?
But yes, death...very sobering, and unpredictable. A bit like watching someone who's had too much to drink...
lol hahahahahaha, I don't know ANY mother who thought "Well that wasn't all that bad." rotflamao
If they did, they musta been given toooo much pethidine.
Death can be predictable, there's a certain smell... an actual smell... in some anyway, the precursor to death.
You know, death is just something you have to deal with, it happens and they're be in a better place after. Well, at least if you were stuck in a hospital, anywheres better than that.
At least, speaking from a nursing perspective, it's easy enough to prepare and shroud the pt, it's a lot harder to counsel the family.
So idealistic... that's probably why I'd rather not have kids, the reality is other things can happen during or post labour. :|
I'd rather be a single aunt, no obligation to give red pockets at New Year's time :D
"many books tire the soul" - and also the eyes, the neck muscles, the back....but then again i wouldn't know because i haven't started studying properly yet.
I feel the same way as Trees - too relaxed, now that the semester is sort of over.
Hmmm...what makes someone want to get married and have kids? Is it just some innate biological thing to want to pass on your DNA, to not let your species die out? Or something deeper?
I don't know, I've never had the urge to get hitched and pop out babies like rabbits. ;) *bwhahahaha*
Maybe we should ask someone who's dating?? Oh Treeeees, so tell me, do you wanna get married because it's the innate biological thing or because you like the guy?? :P
But the thing is, IF it was the innate biological thing, we wouldn't need marriage, you could just have premarital sex and pop out babies. BUT since we're christian, perhaps there is more in a creation of a new person, that there is meant to be more than just spreading of DNA but also the creation of a loving family unit. Just a theory ;)
yeah kat, your dad was good. and yay for pharmacy faculty of EU!
also, pun, you have a very distinctive conversational style, you know that? even on blog comments... much as i love you, i think that if i ever got pregnant i wouldn't talk to you for 9 months. nothing personal you understand :p
It's true: we were all thinking it; but she said it.
lmao, why thank you, I'm so glad I have a very distinctive conversational style. It's good that you can read off the page and imagine me actually saying it *grins madly*
I find it funny how you, cat would know you're pregnant at the time of conception!!! *bwhahahahahahaha*
sorry, it was coming. :D
I was going to tell you guys off for spamming this page when there's a perfectly good spampage set up for that very purpose....but then I checked spampage and realised you had spammed that with over 20 comments already....so, err, carry on! Yay for study procrastination!
well, there would have to be some time afterwards too... if you came in to visit me in hospital after i'd just given birth, i bet the first thing you would do would be to comment on the pain involved... but hey, i'll invite you to the christening :)
Probably worth bringing a morphine shot to the chrisening too, then, if that's going to be the first time you see Pun. She has a very...vivid... way with words.
lol *kheeheehee*
"but hey, i'll invite you to the christening"?? ahahahaha, you guys crack me up :P
fairy floss is good at all times. and hey, if the baby doesn't have teeth yet, the sugar can't be that bad for it, right?
Does "eoiajroi93w9u3ie39ie3oeapoipopor3" mean you have done lots of study and your head is bursting with information? Or does it mean you overslept, spent too much time on the computer and then decided to finish that novel you've been reading? :P
So methinks it is about time I put up a new post, so that this post will stop accumulating comments. But I haven't reached the record on Leach's blog yet....so I will abstain from posting for the time being :)
(Also, it makes me look like I have been too busy studying to put up a new post)
nooo!!! please write new posts, or those of us who are doing no study will feel stupid as they check the blogs for the 6th time in a day only to find that there's been nothing new for days... not that that would be me, you understand, i just think they need a spokesperson... they feel so unstudious in comparison
hey, can't see the ben lee post anymore. did you delete it, or is it the computer?
whoa Cat! you must be blog checking 24/7...yes it was up, but only for like 5 minutes....
hehehe, I was going to put it up again later, cos watching all these comments come up for this one post is so much fun....
hey everyone's on! this is like msn....but sooo much slower...
i just left for a few minutes! hehe, hi to all, glad the computer isn't stuffed
What's a cribsheet?
Wow, people are more bored than I thought...but I am very bored as well, and writing random stuff is so much more fun than studying.
Sigh...look what sad-cases stuvac turns us into.
:P
...and you're only 4 posts from alicia's record! good going! well, i guess this will make it three
no actually now it's only two...and now it will be one...
although I am kind of cheating since i'm commenting on my own blog...
*Pun inserts useless comment to boost comment numbers*
*waves 'Go Viv, Go' flag*
Quack!
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