The first weekend off (ish)

Is it February yet?!

I'm 6 days into 2007 and I'm already in a whirlwind of activities!

I finished my SSC in Bolton and was really sad to leave on Friday, I've loved my time there and I think Bolton is the place where I want to work in 18 months time. I got an "excellent" grade for the SSC report which I have been told means that I now qualify for an Honours point (having already got 2 other "excellent" grades). Which is quite cool really. Plus a Nurse Specialist wants my report to base some research of her own, and my consultant thinks I could submit the research part of it to a journal, as it's basically the first time this has been done, at least in the UK. So woohoo!

Unfortunately it's back to Hope for 5 weeks now... which is nice cos I'll see lots of people I like but I have found being in a DGH (District General Hospital, like Bolton or Trafford General) so good - you are considered part of the team rather than an annoyance so it'll be a bit of a culture shock going back.

Me and the PAL (Peer-Assisted Learning) team have also found time to meet up and finalise lots of things ready for our sign-ups next week, very exciting. We will be teaching Year 3 students clinical examination skills and will be looking at how effective we are perceived to be. We'll then present our findings to the North West medical education training day in March. It's not all exciting though - I photcopied about 500 sheets of paper yesterday, wrote a load of random numbers down to transfer to them, and now have to create a spreadsheet to hold the data... yawn.

And LGBT things loom on the horizon, I met the NUS LGBT Committee today in Kro whose staff were, somewhat unusually, 100% gay/lesbian, as if they knew we were coming...
Anyway, with LGBT Awareness Week needing some hefty organisation and Student Pride on her way, i think I'll be kept nice and busy for a while yet!

Anyway, I've just found that Star Trek VI is on Channel 4 so I'm off to watch the end of it. And My Six Feet Under boxset arrived today which is ace, so lots of televisual fun for me tonight!

(and I haven't even mentioned Jade back in Big Brother - Just Jade, Just Jack, Just Jackiey, Just Genius)