Life or something like it...: sunny side up

4th year has been hectic and seems to be never-ending, but i'm so glad we are now at the end of project options! what a wonderful 2 months it has been, and by wonderful i mean free. hahaha. though now comes the stressful period of writing up reports and preparing for presentations. :-/ funny that a few people have asked why we manchester 4th years have so much free time on our hands, and even asked if we ever have exams. the answer is: we probably seem to be very free because we don't complain on facebook that much, even though, in less than a year, we've actually gone through crazy rotations and sat for a few major exams. AND PASSED. :p
project option time is like the pseudo-holiday before our real holiday. i've been enjoying every bit of it, especially now that summer is here, AND especially since i've chosen to do an audit instead of research (lots of free time) in gastroenterology (my favourite specialty - for now). just have to rush that report for submission and endure the horrendous presentation bit (which i'm dreading so badly); and then it is home for the summer!
i love that having all this free time now has given me the liberty to enjoy myself before final year (as you've probably noticed from my recent blog posts). almost all my weekends for the past 2 months have been "fully booked", and i've even told friends who thought of coming to visit to do so on weekdays, when i only have to go to hospital as and when i wish. hahaha.
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kings of leon came to manchester on the 19th of june, and tr kindly bought me their concert ticket for my birthday! i love kings of leon although i cannot say i am the biggest of fans. i love them enough to bother going to their concert, but not enough to bother going early to push myself through to the front (like i did went i went for Muse!).

to be entirely honest, the concert was... well... underwhelming. don't get me wrong - they can REALLY sing live (especially anthony followill), but it was exactly just like listening to their music on iTunes. they appeared, played some songs from all five of their albums, and left. i think i would've appreciated more variation in their music - perhaps a little more spark in their performances. all i can say is that i left the concert without much memory of being there, unlike the time when i went to watch Muse and was left on a high for a good few weeks! well i'm just glad they played all of my favourite songs - closer, pyro, mary, sex on fire, the bucket and use somebody, otherwise i would've felt cheated. haha.
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last weekend i organised a picnic for the imu-manchester peeps in our year, you know, just to be nice and bring everyone together. :p it was great fun! so glad we did it. the weather was wonderful, food was good, and everybody got along over a deck of cards, a £1.50 frisbee and a £0.80 ball. hehe happy times before the foreseeable gloomy times of final year.