Thursday, June 16, 2005
It's OVER!!!

As of 30 minutes ago, I have finished my medical exams. FINISHED, I tell you!!

Can't quite accept that it's over (and it won't be, until the results arrive next week), but hooray! No more revising! Am going home now to eat crap and watch telly in a wholly guilt-free way!

Byeeeeeeeee!!

Posted by Sammie M. 2005-06-16 08:41:24

Tuesday, May 24, 2005
Oh God it's been too long!

Much, much too long. I'm ashamed!

For what it's worth I have kept to my resolution to write 'something' every day for weeks and weeks now.............I've been revising for my medical finals. First exam is two weeks on thursday!!!

Then come July we're off to Plymouth so I can start my first job as a doctor. Sun, sea and surf......and a HOUSE instead of a teeny tiny flat!

Am full of noble resolutions about getting fit and healthy again (Revising for me = living off junk-that-can-be-eaten-with-one-hand) - physically, but also spiritually. I want to swim, surf, maybe get a bicycle again (might even be able to go into work on bike, thinking about it). I want to 'dabble' in giong to church - maybe join a choir. And I also want a "bit of garden to grub around in". I want to grow fushcias (sp?) in tubs and maybe a few vegetables...........and I don't CARE that this means I'm turning into my mother!

Oh dear.....I must be getting old! :D

Posted by Sammie M. 2005-05-24 07:11:57

Wednesday, January 12, 2005
Ebay is addictive.

I have nothing else to say at the moment...I'm too busy buying and selling stuff!

Posted by Sammie M. 2005-01-12 09:24:28

Tuesday, January 11, 2005
Organic stuff tastes goooooooood...

The following foods definitely taste both stonger and nicer when eaten in organic form: bread, meat, apples (SO much nicer), cup of tea, onions, other things I don't remember.

Which is why we're boycotting Tesco's. Ok, it's more because Tesco stock a pitful quantity of foods that don't either fill the world with pesticides or exploit third world labour. Same difference, though. It's also because, in Sainsburys there is a boy whose job is to show you wher the shortest queues are, on the tills. In Tescos, every employee's job description includes the phrases "must put 'we are closed sign in face of person who has been queuing under employees nose for ten minutes' and 'have pathological inability to notice trolley queueing at (virtually empty) basket-only till in supermarket full of long trolley queues until shopper has unpacked all their shopping onto conveyor belt'. In short, they suck. Apparently, one pound in every eight spent in the UK is spent in Tesco. This worries me.

Other things that worry me include vaccinations, politicians, and people in Asia who don't have boats. But they can wait until tomorrow, or at least til later...

Posted by Sammie M. 2005-01-11 13:22:44

Sunday, January 9, 2005
A little too late as usual...

So this morning we were supposed to go to church. So much for great plans. We've been talking about going to the local church ever since we moved here. Or I have. Andsince Oz realised that I wasn't "taking the p***", as he so delicately put it, so has he.

I've been to church maybe a dozen times in my life. Or rather, been to maybe (MAYbe) that many services. I've 'been in a church' plenty of times - a quiet moment in a beautiful old church in the middle of nowhere has always been an incredibly - calming, almost soothing - meaningful - experience for me. I hesitate here because I don't want to sound trite, but those who know me will realise that for me to feel calm is a pretty special thing, to an increasing degree as life seems to get ever more stressful (or I just get ever the more stressed). Anyway, being brought up in a strictly atheistic environment, I always just told myself that that feeling of peace, and the weird sensation, like a blanket of years settling gently across you (I have no words for this, hopefully some of you know what I mean) was just the feeling of history, of time. Certainly I feel very similar in a number of old castles and ruins, and I'm sure that the age of a place is a part of it. But now I've begun to question whether that is the be all and end all of these buildings, to look for something more. I have to admit that of the old ruins around the country that really have this...atmosphere....most areformer abbeys. And then there's Oz's mum's house. She lives in a terraced house in a rather unattractive Northern city......but runs the house as a Christian retreat, with a friend who's a vicar. They've turned the dining room into a chapel. Whenever I get there I just....unwind. Sleep, mostly!

These are, to an enquiring scientific mind, stupid reasons to reverse a life philosophy. But they aren't everything. And besides, it's not been a long life, yet :)

So anyway - I want to know more about the church, it's teachings, it's philosophies. I'm currently so ignorant that Oz wavers madly between hysterical laughter and despair at how anyone can be so blinkered. But then he comes at this from rather the opposite pole to me. And I decided I would like to attend some regular church services. Out of curiosity, I supose, as much as anything. But their always seemed to be some reason why we didn't bother. Until today. We were up in good time, dressed and out the door. Walked through town to the church - very civilised. Except that, apparently, today was 'technically' the first sunday in the month - when the service is an hour earlier. Oops!

Ah well - we'll try again next week!

Interestingly, in the last few years my mother has decided she's more of an agnostic, too. But then, I should have suspected it in a woman who's always professed to believe in The Force... ;o)

Posted by Sammie M. 2005-01-09 09:42:17