This morning, on the way to lectures, walking along the Storey's Way cycle path I was distracted by an engineer in a field. He was using a theodolite, presumably to do theodolitey things for a development of some sort (ok, I don't know what he was doing) right in the middle of the field of cows. The cows however, were not neatly distributed, or even in a random herd; they were crowded behind him, all carefully watching. If any of you, like Jen, are worried that cows are more intelligent than they look, this poor quality (UFO style) mobile phone photo will only add to your paranoia.

Yesterday I gave blood, and so did Alex. She came along for moral support (though I pointed out that this would make me seem like a scaredycat), and was so impressed by the whole affair ("I thought it would involve knives and buckets!") that she gave blood an hour later (after a trip to Sainsbury's). Worryingly, she also managed to predict her blood flow rate into the bag at exactly 43 ml/min... scary!

This evening we have had an uber-cleaning fest. The hall, landing and kitchen have been hoovered, and the hall and kitchen mopped, alex is frantically dusting and vacuuming her room. Two days ago we flash-mobbed the living room, and shifted furniture before leaping in with the hoover, and I dusted my room at the weekend. Slowly, we are freeing ourselves of the respiratory nightmare that is our house. Please, parents, if you're worried about your child developing asthma, bring them here for an hour and they'll be desensitised for a century.

In other news, my computer is breaking. It's been deciding again that 2 usb ports is one too many, and so I again have to chose between internet, printer, music or pen drives - turn off one, plug in the other etc. etc. Plus it's been crashing alot for some strange reason (I think it's confusion at an external hard drive), and for some reason Ubuntu has started crashing too). I've been eyeing macs up again... apparently there's a new macbook coming out soon, so I'm not sure whether to hold on and see what they're like, or jump in and get one of the current ones cos no doubt the price will go up. Or whether I should even get one at all. Oh well!
Edit: actually it seems the new macbooks are already out.

More blogs.

Just squeezing a blog or two in before the end of April. I'm sorry I've been awol for a month or so, I've been galavanting around during the Easter holidays doing various vet-related things, and haven't though to blog. You'd think it'd be in the blood by now. Sorry!

In recent Cambridge news, the Broken Glass website has been revamped using some cunning css and html japery that Andrew and a wesbite have taught me - it makes designing about a trillion times easier to do, and has enabled me to do it simply with the use of a text editor. Huzzah! Take a look and be delighted :)

Also, Vicky, Alex and me went to see I am Kloot last week at the Junction, and my what a gig it was. Kloot really are amazing, even their new album (which I feel is quite poorly produced) sounded good live, which thankfully helped me realise that it's not the band that have gone awry, just the production. They're still good songs. They were supported by a random American called Ferraby Lionheart, which really is a good name, even if it did take me about 100 failed attempts at remembering his name before I got it. He was quite good - fairly standard guitarry-singy stuff, the sort of thing you could imagine drifting down the tunnel to the museums at South Kensington tube station. I got a poster at the end (it's got cartoony pictures of the band from a gig they did in 2006 on my birthday so I had to get it really), and just as I bought it, John, the lead singer turned up with a big black pen. So I asked him if he'd mind if I "waved a poster under his nose", he didn't mind and signed it up. Huzzah!

Small Fluffies

Today I was less muddy than your average common-or-garden vet student as I was playing with small fluffies. I handled rabbits, guinea pigs, mice, guinea pigs, degus, chinchillas, ferrets, tortoises, corn snakes, bearded dragons, salamanders, skinks, and tarantulas.

• Most surprising: Bearded Dragons - much softer than skaly skin and spines suggests
• Nastiest: Hamsters - I held one hamster, and then another. The second was convinced my hand was the other hamster and sniffed, sniffed, sniffed and then nibbled. Little sods.
• Best pet: Guinea pig all the way

House!

We have a house! After months of searching, we've finally found and managed to stake our claim on a lovely little three bedroom house in a great location. Woop!

I haven't blogged for an age, as I've spent the last 3 weeks distracting myself with vet related fun. I spent two weeks at my 1st EMS practice in New Malden, and had a good time. Vets work long hours and stand up for most of those, which takes some getting used to (though you can buy foot cushions I discovered yesterday) but I haven't been put off yet!