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Mart and Andy is looking forward to it, at least :)

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Dave is tired of waiting and has pulled up a chair.

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My own personal christmas calendar!

This year there is ONE thing I look forward to more than christmas eve, and that's my Depeche Mode gigs. Hence I've made a Depeche Mode countdown calendar!

Bazinga

Total word count: 23,723

Ugh, I'm a terrible blogger. But there are so many things distracting me these days I can barely find the time to eat food. Yes, I still cough. Yes, I still spend way too much time on Tumblr, or DMMB, or IM'ing with people from New York or Australia or some other ridiculously far away place.

And now my mate has even gotten me into NaNoWriMo - National Novel Writing Month. "The goal is to write a 175-page (50,000-word) novel by midnight, November 30. "Writing begins November 1. To be added to the official list of winners, you must reach the 50,000-word mark by November 30 at midnight. Once your novel has been verified by our web-based team of robotic word counters, the partying begins." I had an insomnia-induced writing kick a few nights ago and wrote 12k words in a night. Total word count suddenly reached over 23k. No, I won't tell you what I'm writing about. Most likely no one will ever read it but me. But these days it's my escape, it's cathartic, it's things I need to get out of my head and out of my system. Might seem utterly pointless, but it isn't.

School have been suffering a bit lately due to me being sick, sleeping badly, my energy levels being non-detectable, the level of confusion rising and my motivation taking a down-turn. I am, however, desperately trying to give myself a kick up the backside. In an effort to make anatomy and physiology a bit more understandable, I've taken up my sisters advice and ordered coloring books on Amazon. Might sound childish and utterly useless, but - drawing and coloring makes you use additional parts of your brain while you study, supposedly making it easier to remember. So far in the lectures we've had to draw simplified drawings to explain physiological processes just as much as we've had to take normal notes. At this point, considering the utterly useless book we have in this subject, and the fact that the exam is 2 months away - I need all the help I can get.

My most recent obsession is The Big Bang Theory, by the way. I've watched all the episodes up until now in like.. a week. I love Sheldon. Bazinga.

I take it back

Yup, I take it back. Bacteria most certainly does not rule. After my little spout of the flu in late september I hoped I was finished with my share of diseases for this winter, or at least for 2009. While I had microbiology I learned that getting the flu destroys something in the alveoli of your lungs, making you much more vulnerable to secondary respiratory bacterial infections. If course, by the law of sod, this HAS to apply to me much more so than it applies to everyone else - and I've now been coughing for over two weeks. Finally got to see a doctor today, and he suspects I either have whooping cough cause by pertussis, or an atypical bacterial pneumonia caused by mycoplasma or chlamydia pneumoniae. Will get the answer in a week, in the meantime I will have to make due with a rather large bottle of cough syrup including morphine. Why can't the bacteria just leave me alone so I can go to school and study?