Today was, again, a waste of time. Turned up for Endocrinology clinic as stated in our timetable but my cool consultant had gone to the wards instead. This just shows the status of "Medical Student". We are always the last to know everything. We went to look at the haemodialysis machines instead then went back to do some reading in preparation for Nephrology clinic in the afternoon. I took the chance to have a power nap.

We turned up at Nephrology clinic only to find the venue had been changed to Corby and of course, silly us should have known -_-

Went to doctors' mess as it is supposed to be Free Pizza day today, but no such luck. Slumped in defeat, and having missed the free MDT lunch as well, we buried ourselves in our workbooks and demoralised ourselves by doing some of the renal cases. There were no more cups so we could not make tea at the mess either. After some good, hard work we gave up and went to get some food (using our own money) and found that the restaurant had closed. So we lolled about and got some cheap food from the upstairs cafe(still more expensive than the hospital restaurant). I had Eccles cake, which is my new favourite cake coz it reminds me of very English Tau-sar piah. I miss Ethel's bakery back in Leicester.

After we were well-filled (somewhat) we went for our dinnertime teaching and it was on Asthma & COPD. Again. We must have had at least 5 teachings on that by now (at least 3 of which were in Kettering). I (and I think Sania did too) wondered why everyone else really wanted to do it. Again. We didn't do it in the end because Sania politely pointed out that we had done the topic at least 3 times in Kettering.

It snowed heavily today. Large snowflakes floated into my mouth and eyes despite protection from my spectacles. I really wanted my hot, 2-week old Japanese curry even though I was not that hungry after teaching. Sadly, to add to my series of unfortunate events for the day, #1. the microwave here freaking sucks and did not heat up my food even after 8min and #2. my cabbages and the other vegetables in my Japanese curry had gone sour. The microwave had also somehow managed to selectively only heat up the soured cabbages well, but had left the meat at room temperature. My wonderful cheese-covered bread stick had also gone hard over the week.

I just remembered. Careful registrar had said, "Yep. So read up on nephrotic syndrome." 3 times to me on Tuesday and I had neotiated a teaching session out of him for tomorrow. Whether that was a silence filler/my renal knowledge was so dismal it scared him/I had to read it for teaching tomorrow I do not know. Any way I had better be well-equipped with nephrotic knowledge for tomorrow just in case. It would be quite embarassing if I have to admit that I still have not read up on it. Will go to sleep now so that I can read up a bit more tomorrow early tomorrow morning.

Yay. Free Friday lunch to look forward to. The 1 infallible free lunch of the week. Hopefully they will have packed sandwiches/wraps/salads and other foods. They are really useful for storing for times of emergency (like when my food goes sour).