August 2010
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June 2010
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Now a vet!?
Goodness gracious me, I let this slip! Unfortunately the last few months have been filled with exams and project work, but fortunately these eventually led to passing and completion respectively, closely followed by graduations, and I am now 100% officially a vet! Prepare yourselves for some more regular posting, and my humble apologies for being so slow!!!
May 2010
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“Exams are like saltmining. You stand there chipping away at an insurmountable...”
– Alex, June 2005
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April 2010
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Latest Adventures
Currently, most of my time is spent revising for finals. There are two large 35L boxes worth of folders to be learnt. That’s 70 litres of knowledge, about the size of a bathtub and weighing more than me, to be crammed into 1.5kg of brain (an average measurement). I’m not quite sure I fully understand the physics of the whole thing. I’m hoping at least 20% will go in, but even...
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March 2010
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Scenes From the City →
While not revising, I’ve been cropping, photoshopping, syncing, de-noising and tying together some images and audio for a radio play, ‘Scenes From the City’ to be put on on Easter Sunday at the Camden Head, Camden. It’s a series of short stories by Vicky Flood, with drawings by Ben Lambert, is looking really good. It’s going to be part of whole afternoon of stuff,...
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Online and Domain-ed
http://www.prognathic.co.uk
Isn’t it beautiful! Plus, no one had taken it! Not one of the 6 billion people in this world want a prognathic website. Superb!
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About: Dispelling the Awkwardness →
I just visited another tumblr page, and there was no explanation about what the whole point of it was. This upset me a little, and then I realised that I had no explanation either, which made me start in a shocked way like someone who realises they’ve been caught picking their nose, or a sneezing cat. So, to dispel the sneezing, nose picking awkwardness, here’s a quick...
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Spot the Difference.
Ickworth House, a National Trust property not far from Cambridge, built in the early 19th Century has a central circular building known as the Rotunda, and two curving wings from either side.
The Queen’s Veterinary School Hospital, Cambridge. Built in the 1960s, has a central circular building known as the Rotunda, and two curving wings from either side.
I can’t find any...
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I have arrived home via Tower Bridge. Was very excited, but a little scared that I’d end up in the Thames. Suffice to say, I am dry & safe.
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An Unexpected Discovery →
Sainsbury’s day!
Sainsbury’s day is always exciting, as it means our cupboards have finally reached the point where we are facing an evening meal of custard powder and fish-sauce and so have an excuse to fill them back up again. It’s often easy to buy items that would never end up on your shopping list, and this week we came home with sheep’s milk yoghurt.
It’s...
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A Week at the Vet School
Last week, I slept at Vet School. It was a sort of regression back to student living - a flat with old hobs, no oven, mismatched crockery, permanently on heating, and a strange, lingering smell of poor-quality Italian food fried in Sunflower oil. It would make an Italian Grandma cry. In fact, come to think of it, it would probably make an Italian second cousin twice removed cry, such was the...
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If they can do laparoscopic surgery, could I do drug administration from my bed with a massive endoscope? [From Twitter]
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Its time to become nocturnal. Like an owl… or cat… Maybe I should start hooting or catawalling down the corridors. [From Twitter]
Mmm… the Lapsang Souchong of the beer world… http://bit.ly/dpSnOR [From Twitter]
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[Alice in Wonderland], or 'A Film Based Loosely on...
So now I’ve seen Alice In Wonderland 2010. Tim Burton did his Tim Burtonish thing, and made a slightly odd, beautifully ugly largely CGI film featuring his lady wife. Except it wasn’t that beautiful. The 3D was used to excess - at one point, Alice patted something off her arm, and her hand came ataxically swinging at my face like she had some kind of palsy. A sword held aloft towards...
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Watch 1903's Alice in Wonderland for free. →
I’m off to see the new, 2010 version of Alice in Wonderland tonight, so what better an early morning film than the 1903 version. They’ve worked in some quite surprising effects - the growing/shrinking scene is particularly well done, and the Cheshire Cat really is a thing of beauty.
synecdoche:
Alice in Wonderland (1903), the first-ever film version of Lewis Carroll’s tale, has...
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Making the most of roadkill? →
Fancy a new hat? Well don’t run it over too fast.
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Fractures, fractures everywhere.
Today has been a ‘fracture quiz’ day. We’re given a selection of fracture repair x-rays ranging from the exquisite and beautiful to the ugly, misinformed and just plain odd, and then asked a multitude of questions.
Now I’m seeing fractures everywhere, and am a little paranoid that my femurs are going to crack on the way home. Still, at least I’d know what exciting...
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Shooting stuff for the sake of photography →
I found this when searching for sea otters on google (can’t remember why). Unrelated, but cool, no?
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New Blog
Tomthevet’s blog seems to have died a sad little death of neglect. It kind of just faded away, overshadowed by the pressures and time-demands of my Final Year. Which, I suppose, is a pity. After so long, I feel it’s time for a fresh bloggy beginning; so here we are!
I’m going to see if I can archive tomthevet.blogspot.com for old-time’s-sake