(Source: sarasbai, via xhellixx)

At work with Dasa at the comedy store.

Last night it was the last day of exams so my coursemates and i went out to sankeys. unfortunately i over did it and well, quite literally passed out! it was fun though. Ben took me home which was lovely of him :)

Lots of things to post here but Im at work… I need a massive rant. Rant? well…. lots has happened and i want to look back on this and remember the times of being 19, naive and totally, UTTERLY stupid :D

xx

This past month has been a crazy one for me. My best friend danny has a girlfriend now and I don’t see him as much as I like to but I saw him parked up at home in St annes doing what he loves (rolling a cheeky one) and pulled up in my car opposite him - he saw me and his face lit up and in the time he sat in my car we spoke none stop. I love that boy with all my heart and I’m really looking forward to living with him in my 2nd year of uni. Uni Is going really well for me. 6th form I messed up because I had a boyfriend who was crazy and managed to send me crazy in the process of being with him - which I am still coping with now! I hope I never set my eyes on that horrible horrible person again. Which brings me to summer - I do not want to stay in St annes for summer because it is the town of drama and with my mentality I can’t cope with this. So last summer I went to Ibiza to get fucked every night and sunbathe every day - this year I am heading to Malawi in africa. Out there I will be based in a hospital treating patients with malaria and aids and also examining blood test results, diagnosing, dressing wounds and looking after newborns and expecting mothers. I will also be teaching children and helping hippos. I go on the 21st of June but you’ll hear from me by then as I’m gonna need to raise a lot of money to make this dream come true. I heard of Malawi through work as one of my managers lived there and we hold medic Malawi nights to help raise them money. My job is absolutely amazing. I work at the comedy store in Manchester. I have some great friends there - katy James brian Aaron Ed fi and tom, tom being the only person in life who I have everything in common with. These people make me smile so much but there is one person there who I love with all my heart - Paul. He pulls me up when I am down, we have such a laugh together - he helps me in life with everything I could want. A real good friend. Friends - no boyfriend. This is good because I can do all the things in life which I’d like to do. I am very career headed after splitting up with an ex and I doubt I’ll be finding anyone who I want to be with any time soon. I am however a very lonely person esepecially at night times because I crave the cuddles and love that I once had. That was so many years ago now but being loved and loving is addictive - everyone wants it. So I am not wrong for ever being lonely - plus everyone has problems which makes mine just as normal. Problems that aren’t normal however is lack of sleep. Not just “I’m a student” lack of sleep. Proper insomnia. Not sleeping for days. This is me. I’ve been prescribed strong sleeping pills by the lovely doctor in St annes and have taken them the past 2 nights. Yet I’m still up from 6am :( it’s getting to me especially cause I have exams coming up - I really need to be on form for them. My plan for today was revision - I hope I can sleep a little more before 2pm the I can start it with a clear head. When Paul gets back I will have a clear head - I can tell him anything and he will always know the right thing to do. I wish I could thank him but I don’t think words express how appreciative of him I am. Anyway - I should try and get some sleep so I feel a bit more refreshed. Xx

Review of Website

biotoon.com

A very general site in microbiology

And very general it is, biotoon.com reminds me of my high school years of following amusing cartoons in an attempt to pick out the useful information. Nevertheless, its eye-catching characters and colourful illustrations grab you into the extraordinary world of micro-organisms

Biotoon.com is aimed at the beginners in the microbiology field, certainly notfirst year degree students. However, the title of our unit “Introduction to microbiology” challenges my first review point.  It is not sufficiently sophisticated for degree students. Pitching this website to GCSE science students would be more beneficial than to inquisitive first year biomedical science students. The home page of the website is bright blue and asks the all important question “does your computer have flash?” – If it doesn’t, I’d recommend giving up now as this website, in my opinion, is really not worth the hassle!

Enough of the negatives, the little yellow bacteria are quite cute with their happy smiling faces and I think the black strings coming out of their backsides are supposed to represent flagella? Homepage (the real homepage) has reliable, fast links down the left hand side which are appropriately titled and lead to more, clever animations. I chose to explore the ‘where’ link and found myself faced with what I can’t describe as anything other than a childs drawing of a house and a little green man posing in the bottom right hand corner urging me to view the next page. I did, and I was pleasantly surprised by the easy to understand general information covered by biotoon.com. Content was clearly not the designers priority here as there was not much of it, however the information that WAS provided was relevant, accurate and easy for any audience to read.

One third of the links involved external links, information and downloads which I thought saved biotoons back and encouraged reading around the cheesy animations. The downloads included, oh wait that section is “work under process”. News included, ah that’s shown up as “sorry still under construction” hang on… Books and links – the font size of the recommended books is too small for me to read. Another fail on biotoon’s part. Something good, something good… the link titled ‘biofilms’ seemed a good option to select as I had no idea what a biofilm was and, after sitting through a five minute cartoon of how bacteria don’t like to be lonely I now have a sound understanding  of biofilms. This impressed me as it was extremely easy to grasp and gave good examples illustrated with interesting pictures. Next, ‘gallery’. I wasted ten minutes of my evening trying to figure out what the pictures were trying to get at – nothing to do with their explanation it seemed. However, I admit it was a good idea to include a gallery section with pictures of bacteria, but I think accurate photos of Staphylococcus aureas or blephasemia  in their home environments  e.g. a mouldy student cup, would have been more amusing.

All in all I would 100% recommend this website to children around 15 years of age as it would sufficiently fill their minds with accurate facts and knowledge about bacteria. Unfortunately, I feel that this website would be quickly dismissed by my course mates and fellow biomed students around the country as quite frankly – it’s boring and far too simple. Credit to the designer for their witty animations, their comical interpretation of bacteria and their story board learning styles.

There could be a missing person very much on your mind these days. Is it possible that the relationship is over and you’re the last one to know? Don’t let your insecurities get the better of you, Cancer. It’s likely that your friend merely needs some time alone to sort out some big life issues. He or she will seek out your warmth and friendship again soon.

This gives me hope when I’m so not on for straying away from what I thought was a true friend.