My Apologies

Finding time to post is surprisingly tough. Most of my time has been taken up with doing chores, eating, working or having fun with friends - whenever I come back to my room there is work pressing and so I've not posted yet. Maybe that is a little excessive - this is supposedly the "doss" third year after all.

So far, PDN has been a varied bunch. The first few lectures in "Fetal and Placental Physiology" (here after known as FPP) were amazing (if a little speedy), and the papers I've been reading have been really interesting. Making a Vertebrate (MAV), that I thought would be really good fun turned out to be a bit of a haul, as the first few lectures we've had have been a little poor to say the least, and I spent alot of yesterday translating them. I've spent alot of time in libraries so far, rooting through hard-bound copies of age-old scientific journals. I even ventured into the UL (And as everyone has to, found many books with crazy titles. "The Correspondence of Rubens, Tomes I-VI" entertained me most, though "Mammals of the Soviet Union, Vols I and II" was pretty shocking). Almost makes me feel like an arts student, but not quite.

Alex has dived headlong into a world of Biological Anthropology, and is just about picking through the mounds of species and behaviours she has to get her head round. She keeps piping out interesting facts like "female chimpanzees have pink bums", and "infanticide is selected for sexually". It's all very interesting really.

Tom Taylor is now an Engling, and as such is to be found in the Braeside reading Pope, Wordsworth or whatever else takes his fancy, occasionally piping up with some fascinating, but incomprehensible quote. He's really enjoying it though, which is fantastic.

Well, that's a quick summary - perhaps I should maybe go back an backdate some stuff... How much more convenient it is to keep this going regularly.

Tom
xxx

p.s. Today is my Dad's birthday, so if he's reading, HAPPY BIRTHDAY.