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Pretty fun second week of uni. I would have posted on Monday, but the fun made me tired. Well not really, there was a two hour practical that knocked the stuffing out of me.

The practical was about using the cathode ray oscilloscope (think back to Physics). My group got the older type, so getting it to work properly was a bit finicky. We connected it to the usual suspects, a signal generator and batteries. It would have been done in an hour or so, but like I said, the CRO often refused to work. It would work for 5 seconds and then mysteriously stop working. So the whole thing took longer than expected. The fact the some of the activities in the practical manual were obscured by pictures didn't help either.

During the sometimes lengthy breaks, I join in some card games, the newest of which is proving to be rather addictive. It has no official name and explaining it is a bit difficult but here goes. This game can be played with any number of people (around 4-7 is recommended). Each player get four cards, and attempt to get 4 of a kind, 4 Kings, 4 Aces etc. The cards are passed around in a circle, with the players discarding card so that there are only 4 cards. So one person starts by picking up a card from the deck, discarding a card, whereupon the next player picks up that card, selects a card to discard and son on. Once a player has the required hand, he/she grabs an object from a pile in the middle of the table (plastic spoons or pepper packets work well). However, there is one less object than the number of players, so 4 spoons for 5 players, 5 pepper packets for 6 players and so on. Once one person has grabbed the packets, so must everyone else with the person unable to grab an object as the loser. Once a player has lost a certain amount of times, he/she has to perform a dare.

The difficult part is passing the cards around with the point of trying to form 4 of a kind and keeping an eye on the objects in the middle. It lead to some pretty intense games and moments. Some of the dares performed or suggested were:

• Offering a random person a serviette and they had to accept
• Running up to groups of people yelling "Lord Voldermort is coming!"
• Doing a pole dance while singing "Singing in the Rain"
• Eating a ridiculous amount of wasabi
• Asking random people for their photograph

Fun times indeed. Anyway, one of our psych lectures, Biological Psychology, was pretty fun because it was examining some of the biological and genetic pressures on psychology such as looking for mates. The lecturer was making plenty of jokes, and we spent the first half laughing pretty hard.

Tomorrow there's the dreaded three hour specific lecture on radiography. It didn't get to 3 hours last time, so hopefully, I'll get out early.

I've started to go to sleep much earlier than usual. It'll be like 9:30pm and I'll be like "Meh...I'll go to sleep now" only to wake up at like 5am in the cold cold morning. Well I'm warm under the covers, it's just that my room is cold. Usually I don't turn on the heater because it gets stuffy for me. If there is anything I hate worse than cold mornings, is the feeling of stuffiness in a room. Some of the lecture rooms can get quite stuffy, and for me it's a relief to breathe fresh air, even if it is cold outside.

I'll stay up later than usual. I usually get kicked awake by my body's biological clock at 6am anyway.