I listen to my mp3s at 100 kVp

So it was my 20th birthday around a week ago. It didn't really register with me until I was out with dinner with uni friends celebrating someone else's 20th. That's not to say I forgot my own birthday, but it was more in the back of my head rather than hammering about in my mind. Basically, I get myself a cake, take a few shots of a suitably strong alcoholic beverage and celebrate the fact that I've survived another trip around the Sun. I have no idea what to do with my 21st, because I actually have to do something. I don't like the idea of hard partying, but I'm partial to the idea of having some straight drinking. Meh, I'll worry about it next year.

So only 8 days of clinical left. Every day seems to pass so much faster now. It's almost over, it's so close I can taste it. Clinical is fun and informative as always, but the commute to Gosford, being alone at the practice and the fact that it is a private practice does wear me down. I'm pretty confident at doing pelvis, hip, thoracic, lumbar and knee x-rays now, not to mention the usual deluge of chests. But clinical just reminds you that actual work is pretty tiring. I get up before the sun rises and get home after the sun sets. Maybe it'll be more tolerable when I'm actually getting paid something rather than nothing.

Thankfully, the train trips aren't that bad since my trusty iPod keeps me going with music and podcasts. The time flies by especially when you're listening to something funny on a podcast and having to start having a cough fit to cover your laughter, which some people may interpret as you laughing at them. Seriously though, since I started clinicals I've had transit police check my tickets numerous times. In all my years of using Shittyr...I mean Cityrail, I've never had my ticket checked. I even had my ticket checked twice on a single trip. They probably never check the peak times since there is too many people.

I've been adding music on a semi-regular basis. Listening to the same playlist for a week bores you quick. Kate Ryan does some decent tracks, Ludovico Einaudi's composing so awesome that I obtained all his music from 1988 onwards, Regina Spektor's "Us" has me hooked, some awesome piano work from David Sides, an older track with the Foundations and a great anime track from Tokyo Brass Style. Actually, that last band is pretty cool, since they play their music with brass instruments (trumpets, saxophones etc), it's a girl band (which is always a plus) and they do some anime music as well. Clip of them working on and playing 'Sora iro Days' the OP for the anime Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann



That's some awesomeness right there.