Long Live the Weekend!

...and damn wasnt it a good one? I may not be 18 yet, but i challenge anyone out there to find a more awesome 18th birthday than mine. There was FIREBREATHING for god's sake! The Nutbush! Singstar! A Pool! Nerf Guns! A Skeleton in a Guiness Hat! Drunken Relatives!

The Highlights:
Colleen and KT experimenting with the body chocolate they bought ME. Get your own damn body chocolate!
The Struggle of biblical proportions between Rory and Myself; battling for the title of Singstar Champ! Rory was the victor by the narrowest margin in Singstar History to date: 40 Points.
Patrick Firetwirling
Patrick Firebreathing
Patrick teaching me to Firebreathe
Me Firebreathing
Epic Nerf Gun Battle between Dion and I where anyone and anything was a target
Colleen Biting KT
Laura, KT and Colleen showing up impeccably dressed
Laura, KT and Colleen reappearing in ordinary clothes with no apparent transition...
Cartwheels and Handstands at midnight!
Rory calling me "Slightly More Handsome" than him
Cake!
Anita playing Singstar!
Kurt's attempt to pass off anything and everything as a present
The (actual) Presents!

and much much more. I'd tell you, but if you weren't there you wouldn't understand...

Thanks for

Corruptus In Extremus

JCUMSA, the elite snobby society for med-students only, recently held some elections to nominate their future executive members. Now i know what you're thinking: "Democracy? In Medicine? Sure, and Keith Urban will be sober now that he's with Nicole", but it's true! Rather than relying on someone's noble birthright or a detailed examination of a person's geneology to see who has the most doctors in their family tree, they actually vote on who they want to be running JCUMSA. Surprise of all surprises, I was elected as Year Representative! So I am now the voice of all my fellow med buddies next year, taking over the role from Sharad.

Well, when I say surprise, it probably wasn't, given the amount of bribery/pushing/shoving/ calling in favours i did on Tuesday. Sharad, Andrew and I discovered that i had a huge number of people willing to vote for me, but that few of them were willing to turn up to vote. In response to this, we bought and distributed a huge number of Starburst lollies, tutored an extensive number of people in the muscles of the leg, reminded home group 3 of the fact that I have saved their collective behinds on several occasions, noted that it was my birthday in a week, tore down other people's campaign posters, and generally annoyed/tortured people until they agreed to turn up and vote. It worked! I got the position, by a landslide.

The moral of the story is that corruption will always triumph over democracy. Just look at the Bush Administration.

I would also like to point out that the string of corruption shall not stop there. The students at St. Mark's shall receive preferential treatment over all others, with certain exceptions. Especially if they keep bribing me with their brilliant tea.

Now, off to assassinate some opposition and deny any knowledge of scandals! Huzzah for Politics!

What's this? An Update?

Well yes, it is actually. I know, I'm surprised too, but the current resurgence in blogging has prompted me to get in on it again.

So what's new since you last heard of me? I've completed almost a year of medicine, have gained and lost a fairly large amount of money, got a licence, got a skeleton (i already had one, but now i've got one outside me as well), got a job at a kebab shop, made a bunch of new friends, kept a bunch of old friends, been to a ton of parties, done two theatre restaurants and a one-act play, and entered the running for JCUMSA year rep.

Pretty good year all round wouldn't you say?

Well that's my general update, stay tuned for more specific gripes about certain things!

Med fact of the week: The Pacreas is retroperitoneal

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