The Cambridge Chat Thread

It could be lupus

To be fair, clinical medicine can hardly be that bad?

It's not! It's just the early morning start after a day of flying back after a rather short (relatively...) break.

It should actually be fun. Will be nice to be back in theatre as a proper-student (as opposed to actually scrubbing up and, err, doing stuff.)

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It could be lupus

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visesh

It's not! It's just the early morning start after a day of flying back after a rather short (relatively...) break.

It should actually be fun. Will be nice to be back in theatre as a proper-student (as opposed to actually scrubbing up and, err, doing stuff.)

Ah ok, I see your point. I know the breaks are very, very short at clinical school. Still doing some clinical stuff would be cool. I would like to even learn 1 or 2 basic skills to keep me interested (not that the non-clinical stuff isn't)

Theatre would be really good as well. It was interesting even on work experience

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OP

Athena

My good intentions (ie going to bed at 10 so I'd get a decent night's sleep) have failed, due to not being able to sleep :dry:

So now I'm on TSR, drinking warm milk and feeling spaced out :frown:

I get this alot, although its usually trying to go to sleep at 12 - 1 rather than 3 - 4 :facepalm:

Got any trashy reading around?

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ukebert

Chess Piece Face

Dr Ukebert, next term I shall give you my ukulele so that you can perform surgery on it. The poor thing keeps going massively out of tune; I think the pegs need some kind of adjustment. Expect rep - and, above all, gratefulness - in return :p:

I can solve it for you now. Your uke will have friction pegs, most likely, which have no cog. They are held in by friction between the peg and the sides of the hole and crucially by friction between the top/base of the peg and the headstock. If the screw is loose in the direction perpendicular to the strings then the strings will lose tension quite rapidly. What you need to do is tighten the screw that you will find at the bottom of the friction peg with an ordinary screwdriver. Not too tight, but tight enough for the pegs to turn with a decent amount of resistance. It's a common problem with instruments with friction pegs, expect to adjust them every so often.

Craghyrax

Nooooooo!!!! :ahhhhh:

He's not available until summer! :hmmm:

You're right, I've got waaay too many gigs and things to waste time with work and ukulele fixing :p:

Actually I did do a little work today. Didn't go fantastically.

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OP

Athena

I've got a Dorothy L Sayers I'm reading, but with it being a murder mystery, I'm worried I'll get caught up in the plot, although it worked for sending me to sleep last night (but that was at 2am!). Sudoku, normally my fail-safe, has let me down the last three-four nights.

TSR it is then! I'm in the situation of having too much fantasy reading with my recent Pratchett haul. Also I met up with an old friend in Canterbury (Demon_AS on TSR) who I actually met on the Literary Society thread about four years ago, and we traditionally swap over new reading material whenever we meet, so I have three extra fantasy/thrillers to read :banana:

I'm determined to finish this article tonight, though, as all I managed today was shopping and eating an amazing roast dinner (lamb) and baking a dark chocolate souffle :coma:

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ukebert

Athena

I've got a Dorothy L Sayers I'm reading, but with it being a murder mystery, I'm worried I'll get caught up in the plot, although it worked for sending me to sleep last night (but that was at 2am!). Sudoku, normally my fail-safe, has let me down the last three-four nights.

Which Dorathy L Sayers? I like her books :smile:

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alex_hk90

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Athena

My good intentions (ie going to bed at 10 so I'd get a decent night's sleep) have failed, due to not being able to sleep :dry:

So now I'm on TSR, drinking warm milk and feeling spaced out :frown:

Sometimes in CamChat I wonder if I've stumbled into the Insomniacs Soc thread. :p:

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db_cambridge

visesh

Gah, back to the hospital tomorrow morning.

Doubt you will see this before tomorrow, but any idea what time I have to be in theatre tomorrow?? It just says afternoon. I know you have to be there at 8.45, but "afternoon" is rather indefinite.

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visesh

werlop

Doubt you will see this before tomorrow, but any idea what time I have to be in theatre tomorrow?? It just says afternoon. I know you have to be there at 8.45, but "afternoon" is rather indefinite.

Am up.

Will find out and text you when I can. Just head to the Sherwood Room for 1230 to be safe...

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OP

Athena

Yup, where else would I be? :p:

My day has been really good (take a look in our favourite forum :wink:

) and I don't know why I can't sleep, because my body is making me well aware that I've done a lot more cycling than I ever normally do.

That's why I 'liked' your status :wink:

I haven't read any Dorothy Sayers yet. I tried Jill Paton Walsh ( a book set in Cambridge) and I really hated it :frown:

Well, ok... not hated, but it was too irritating to enjoy (sorry - not trying to insult your reading tastes)

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OP

Athena

Taste in books is deeply personal, don't worry! I recommend you try Strong Poison if you do want to try DLS (which I will bring back at some point when your to be read pile is smaller!). DLS has an incredibly modern voice considering all her books are inter-war, and they make a nice change from fantasy :smile:

I didn't realise they were historical! That means I might like them better. I can't even remember the title of the Paton Walsh but it was based in a fictional Cambridge college in the present day, and all of the characters behaved in really unrealistic ways, and the discussions were contrived and implausible and it lacked class awareness. Or real life awareness, frankly, so it just irked. With a historical story I'm less likely to notice annoying details out of place because I don't have first hand experience. With this story the plot revolved around an amateur drama society which had a reviewer from the Times present at a one night performance put on in a college hall :lol:

And it involved night climbers, but gave really inaccurate details about technical climbing details :facepalm:

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ukebert

Craghyrax

I didn't realise they were historical! That means I might like them better. I can't even remember the title of the Paton Walsh but it was based in a fictional Cambridge college in the present day, and all of the characters behaved in really unrealistic ways, and the discussions were contrived and implausible and it lacked class awareness. Or real life awareness, frankly, so it just irked. With a historical story I'm less likely to notice annoying details out of place because I don't have first hand experience. With this story the plot revolved around an amateur drama society which had a reviewer from the Times present at a one night performance put on in a college hall :lol:

And it involved night climbers, but gave really inaccurate details about technical climbing details :facepalm:

Dorathy L Sayers tends to do things properly. The Nine Taylors is about Bellringing and her details are pretty accurate, or at least I couldn't find fault with them. Plus her chapter titles were brilliant (LPW goes into the hunt and so on). Murder Must Advertise is also a good one, though perhaps not one to start on. I can't remember which is the first one involving whatsername, but that one is good. Think it's Strong Poison. And the one in Oxford might amuse you. It's the way that I've understood Athena's alien vocabulary (scouts et al)

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OP

I'll take up your offer once I get through my stash :teeth:

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brimstone

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I ~~need~~ would quite like a boyfriend this term :mad:

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BigFudamental