Cupcakes

Out of the 5000 characters for my last essay of med school applications, I have about 1500 written. That's 30%. Progress. I have all these things I know I want to say, which I have nicely outlined, but getting them all to flow nicely together is another story... My goal is to have this finished and submitted by the end of the month. If I didn't have so many other things I need to get done, I'd say I will finish a full draft tonight, but I'm thinking it may have to wait until tomorrow afternoon, only because I have a meeting with my supervisor tomorrow morning and need to get my research pieced together a little bit more tonight after today's lab. I know I did a lot of reading this week, and last week's meeting was cut short, so we have plenty to discuss, but my look into the most prevalent drugs prescribed to children is incomplete at the moment, and I would like to see that done before the morning, or at least get through SSRIs (antidepressants). And then it hit me yesterday that I have a crazy amount of reading to do for this "journal club" meeting that I have early next week. Eek.

In other news, I went to a meeting on Tuesday for this Public Health and Health Policy group that I am a part of in the School of Medicine here. While the meeting went on far too long, it was interesting for awhile. There were about 12 people, and we all explained our current research, and got a little background on the public health program here. I learned that they almost closed the medical school here about 10 years ago, but since then the university has dedicated a lot of time and money to bring it back to the point where it has been noted by students as one of the top medical schools in the UK four years in a row...or something like that. In any case, there is basically no public health bit, with the exception of this small group I'm in, so we're working to build the program. Interesting.

It's been decided (almost) that I will probably be going to Amsterdam for a few days over reading week. No plans have been set, but I think we (being myself and one of my housemates) finally agreed that this would be best...And then I realized that I'm pretty sure I have to be back here by the Thursday for some biology postgraduate conference that goes on two days (?). Shouldn't be a problem seeing as I was only going to be away until Tuesday or Wednesday anyway, but I should probably figure out if/where I need to be for this conference business...

AND I did get around to cooking a proper dinner last night. Stir fry with chicken, broccoli, and noodles. It was delicious. But I meant to buy peppers to throw in as well and forgot. Next time. And my experimentation with the sauce ended up being really great. I'm quite pleased. AND there were leftovers. Mmmmmm good.

Also, seeing as I know people are reading this (nearly 300 views now!) and I've only had one comment to date (sad times...), please please leave me comments! It would make me happy.

Now to lunch or to essay? Hmm....