Panthera Sapiens Ellipsis: The Blog

So exams ended today. They haven't ended for the roomie; his end tomorrow, in classic Bioengineering style--it's a tradition, it seems, that my course must always have the last day of its exams on the last possible available day. My own is a subversion then, since it's ended on the second-last day; but I should be a liar if I said I don't mind being a little bit early for once. The exam was probably pretty difficult. I probably shouldn't be quite as cheery as I am, except I've spent the last two days in a certain haze of euphoria at being able to breathe freely without pain. It's nice being able to do things like sleep uninterrupted by your own respiratory tract, or drink, or yawn... I'm also pretty sure I botched up some formulae and made bad estimations or assumptions and mixed up a few others that may send my lecturer into hysterical apoplexy. All the same! I've now got a stretch of holidays to look forward to. (And my roomie just gave me a lozen...

I'm sick--again, for the second time this semester. I don't remember having been sick like this before, so I'm chalking it to either the weather or the room placement or some other variable that was different in the previous room. Again, it's a sore throat, and began about five days ago now with coughing bouts and the occasional headache; at the time I just put it down to studying too much for Biomol, but a couple days ago I woke up groggy and unable to swallow without bright flashes of pain going off in my throat. At the same time I can't sleep well anymore--a great pity since sleeping-time is my favourite time--and I frequently wake up coughing and then have to drink, but that means I have to swallow. Also I'm very depleted of energy and move like an old man, or like a badly-done 3D film--the kind where everything seems to happen in slow-motion. Even walking is tiring. This time I'm taking Strepsils cough syrup instead of the pipagao I took the last time;...

So yeah, it's Sunday now and my second-last paper, Biomol, is the day after tomorrow--I should be panickedly memorising orgachem formulae and various metabolic pathways, except I just can't seem to remember the hundred-or-so-odd names and things. Never mind that there's interconnections between the various pathways, they have like maybe three or four intermediates in common each--well if you don't count the electron donors/acceptors anyway. The body is amazing and all that, yes, and I don't just mean the outsides of people (although come to that, the skin is a pretty useful thing too). Anyway, after Fluids... I had little to no study mood left. All taken away after possibly failing that, and Electronics two days before it too--I fail at Electronics, very much. Easy Kill doesn't--he's likely as anything to get an A+ in it and that's only because no higher grades are available--I'm likely to have to re-take this module next semester or whenever it'...

Exams began yesterday, two weeks after my last post--yes, it's terribly irregular posting. In my defense I've been busy reducing all my lectures to a small pile of written-on foolscaps (someday I'll photograph those foolscaps and put them up here so I can burn them and still have a copy around to refer to in future--or I'll have them scanned on the school computers if/when Herr Robson returns me my thumbdrive, or if/when I borrow one from Easy Kill). I'm taking a bit of time off my regular studying schedule to bring you this post because--unsurprisingly, really--I misread my exam timetable and thought the exam would be at 9am; it's actually at 2.30pm. Regardless, it means I slept very little between yesterday and now (about four hours really) and have already gone through the examinable material to my own satisfaction, though of course I'll be re-reading again shortly to buff up memory of the various formulae and conditions, characteristics, etc. Yesterday...