Cheaper Tuesday
Just think about those two words for a sec. Now think about this… I live in a country where they think, pronounce and advertise “Cheaper Tuesday” as a clever alliteration gimmick. What?! Exactly.
Just think about those two words for a sec. Now think about this… I live in a country where they think, pronounce and advertise “Cheaper Tuesday” as a clever alliteration gimmick. What?! Exactly.
Today was the last session for me with PBLIV. We had a half session to finish out the important points of our case this morning and then headed over to a fish and chips shop close by called A Salt and Battery. Our case this week was Domestic Violence.
The year has been really good and I’m going to miss having these guys in the group. I know whenever you get randomly assigned people you have to work closely with, there’s so much potential for adversity, but I think our group really came together. It’s not that we’re all the same, cause we are definitely different, but things seemed to work. I’ll miss them!
This is a small post about a big (psychological) plus to Canada that came up when Brian and I were talking about going home. I had occasion to look through my old banking records and saw purchases from Tim Horton’s. This is what I saw. And yes, I chose one that was early in the morning on purpose! 😉
Now, that’s a good deal. But here, a plain black, nothing added, tar and water coffee does not go for less than $3 and can go up from there. What is the deal? Anyways, since they’ve got us trapped on this island I suppose they can charge whatever they want and we just pay. It seems the locals have gotten used to it…
Here are my teammates in Sunday night footy. This was just after our last defeat. Theo was pretty tired, he worked really hard.
Thanks to Carol for the photos.
I spent today at the beach, which was pretty great cause it’s starting to get hot enough. It was even a bit too hot. Anyways, most of the time was spent just lying there reading and talking about our exams etc. It was good to get out of the house.
There also was some pretty crazy lightning in the distance, but it didn’t really do much close by. It was hitting pretty fast, but a lot of it was behind the clouds. I took a clip of it and you can see it after the link.
Google’s StreetView is causing a little bit of a stir for some privacy freaks in Australia… If you’ve never seen it before, you can basically see what a street looks like over the internet… just look at the google maps link to the right to see what my street looks like. You’ll have to click the Street View link on the top right.
Australia seems like a strange target for Google to roll this out. I honestly don’t know why they did it here before Canada, but what do I know?
This is the front of my apartment building. It’s a little off on the address with the maps, but the addresses are approximate it says.
Since being sick and not really doing anything else otherwise, I’ve seen a lot of the apartment lately. This afternoon I started to feel a bit better, and a bit cabin feverish at the same time. So I decided to go downtown and just wander. It was a pretty nice afternoon and I went all over downtown and then headed to southbank. It’s easy to forget that you’re living in a place that looks like this sometimes. It just becomes what is normal.
This is a video I took in June some time when I was walking to the Princess Alexandra Hospital. I had my camera set on slow motion video, but didn’t know that the slow mo would be so slow. So, it’s choppy. I wanted to do it again, and use the regular video setting and then speed it up, but given the weird looks I got marching all that way with a camera stuck in people’s faces, I probably won’t. So here it is. People who have been there before will recognize it. [Read more →]
These last weeks have been pretty quiet. It seemed like we took a few weeks to ease back into the rhythm of school, and there are no longer some of the practical sessions. Microbiology has ceased entirely, which is great, since many of us had previous experience with microbiology, and seeing it again doesn’t really do anything to advance the awareness of it. It seemed pretty distant from the actual tasks we’ll be asked for in a clinical setting. With an exception of actually visualizing the need for sterile technique. If you’d never seen how much bacteria can grow from your breath, then I guess it was good for that.
Our PBL topics have taken a turn towards the less definable parts of medicine, recently including teenage pregnancy, abortion and cancer treatments. It seems as though these topics are huge and we are just starting to get into them. It has been a little frustrating to not be able to learn a bunch of really useful things about one topic, since things like teenage pregnancy cover everything from competence to embryology. I suppose that’s the nature of these problems, and why this process is so long. A lot of these topics have required much personal thought and searching. It’s mental preparation to be able to act from strength in the future, I suppose.
On a totally different topic, it has been winter here lately, and while these weeks are some of the sweetest weeks in Canada, it has been cold and rainy here. It’s a different raiiny than I’m used to; it’s not the gloom of Vancouver. Even on the days that it is a bit gloomy, there is hope in knowing that in just a few days it will be glorious again. It has been really good for the last few days. Hopefully that’s the sign that things are starting to turn around. I’m trying to enjoy it now, before it’s unbearably hot again. (Which is kinda cool too.)
Actually I’ve been back for a few weeks now. This is the end of the second week back. I took a break from writing that just seemed to get longer and longer. Initially it was cause I was tired and nothing was really going on, then it sort of morphed into because I was lazy and nothing was really going on. Now, with class back in session the ball gets rolling again. Got my scores from the mid year exam, by the way, and I’m happy. Hopefully I can keep it up.
My break was good and interesting, and I should have really written it all down as it was happening, since it’s harder to recall and write out now. I took a few trips to the Sunshine Coast, once to visit Steve Reny at his university housing, once to climb a mountain, and once to see Steve again with Brian. We went to Caloundra that time and just took it easy playing frisbee on the beach. At sundown by the mouth of the river we saw a dolphin jumping right out of the water around some boats that were coming in. The sun had already gone, so it was basically black and yellow outside and the sillouette looked really cool.
I will put up some pictures up here in an entry that predates this one for the trip to the Glasshouse mountains.
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