Kitchen renovations, exams and mental health…
My first ‘barrier’ exam is on the 25th in the form of an anatomy exam: 16 stations with 4 identifications to make at each station and 2 minutes at each station. Then a 2 hour exam on both the 27th and 28th with all of this years lecture and lab material being fair game. The official terminology for this set of exams is ‘summative’ assessment but I think barrier is also appropriate since you can’t progress to the next year without negotiating this hurdle. I feel like the fat, unfit person in military bootcamp comically, pathetically, pitifully, trying to scale the wall. I think we’ve all seen the movie.
*sigh*
On a brighter note, I had the ‘formative’ clinical assessment a couple of weeks ago. Now, the reality is, formative results aren’t counted towards my academic record but it doesn’t seem to work that way in my head. That and the fact that the examiners are also practicing clinicians at the hospital added the ‘shame factor’ into the mix. Falling flat on my face would have been embarrassing. Thankfully I kicked that particular exam’s puny ass out of the park, but probably wasted a couple of days precious barrier study in the process. The examiners were also really nice so there was nothing to be worried about.
Strangely, the older students and interns who ran a mock exam for us to help us practice and get used to the format were much more intimidating and I felt humiliated for days after that session (although, that was partly my own fault as I ‘rocked up’ with zero preparation).
Oh, and did I mention we weren’t going to do anything to the house? Although, to be fair to my mister, we had agreed to pull out the water tank and close in the back pergola for the kittycats and put up a carport, and in due course, to replace the timber balustrades with iron lace work on the front of the house. But apart from that, nothing to the house.
Except rip out all the carpet and slate tiles to lay timber flooring.
And rip out the kitchen and put in a new one.
And repaint everything.
And replace the downstairs shower with a laundry.
All this as the world economy is going to hell in a handbasket.
*sigh*
Still, the kitchen we, (well, Grant) has in mind is pretty slick and will elevate the room from ordinary to spectacular… must be something in the air with kitchen renovations nearing completion in Ossaia and Discovery Bay.
Back to oxygen-haemoglobin dissociation curves and metatarsal bones (one is part of respiratory/haematology revision, the other anatomy of the foot… Can’t seem to focus on one for too long before the eyes start to glaze over!)
