Siiiiiiiick :(

I have gotten a severe cold and have spent most of the day sniffling and trying to work on the essay on the Spanish empire, due on friday. I guess 550 words is a good start though, rest of tonight will be devoted to tomorrows seminar. Great week to get sick.


But one the bright side, I have recieved a gift for Kiran that I ordered from the US today. It is a so called "bottle necklace", basically a little glass bottle with nice looking beads and other sparkly things in it. It was Kiran who found the website, but she let me customise a necklace for her, and this nice woman made it in the end. Some pictures of how it looks like can be seen below.

Kiran cooks

This is a little how-to for Martin. So he can learn how to make Indian food. This is the recipe for saag keema (spicy minced beef with spinach) You will need, 500g mince, 3 cloves of garlic (cut small), 1 small onion (diced), tinned tomatoes, cherry tomatoes (halved), spinach (roughly cut), salt, pepper, ground cumin, ground garam masala, tumeric powder and hot chilli powder optional


Soften the onion and garlic in oil. Add cumin, salt and pepper.











Add the mince and brown off on a mid high heat. Drain off fat after mince is completely brown.










Halve tomatoes and add to mince along with tinned tomatoes








Add tumeric, masala and cumin to taste. Also chilli if you like it hot








Add spinach








And there you go! Saaag keema. Serve with Naaan, bread, salad, yoghurt, anything really. I had to ring up my grandma to find out how to get it right and she was very detailed and precise in her instructions. However, very displeased that I was making such a small amount of keema (half a kilo is apparently a very small amount!).

Dinner tonight

Tonight I think I'll cook an Indian keema. Bit low on ideas but I have mince in the fridge and Im missing spicy food and home cooking. Need to ring grandma and get a good idea of what to put in. I'll put the recipe up later - its quite easy to make as it uses the standard Indian base of onions, garlic, garam masala, jeera and tumeric. When I make Indian food I end up comparing it to grandmas and it ends up being a little disappointing.

Looking at Christmas

Managed to get all of the heart lectures done today. :) Now Im really really tired. But Ive had the chance to look at xmas stuff and plan what to get people. Which makes me happy.

I was hoping Martin and I could have a mini Christmas before Sweden. Have been looking at a few things to decorate my room for the small celebration. Hope its not too traditional ^^.

Monday morning

Martin gone back to Liverpool. But I have an electric fan heater now and tea supplies - never want to leave my room again ^^. This morning we discovered that the Great Hall has flooded rendering all lectures cancelled until further notice. Great- and when will we do them exactly? Precis. But back to work and iplayer.

Puss

The Desk (Part 3)

The finished desk




And the Angry carpenter

The Desk (Part 2)

Almost finished!

The desk (Part 1)

Martin is currently fixing a desk for me. I am not allowed to help. I must pass screwdrivers and bolts and supervise only.

Must go to bed now. Why arent I tired? Need to be up early to revise. Horrible day tomorrow. 3 Lectures and a Directed Learning and more revision afterwards. I bought a new mop for the kitchen today.

Potential tattoo?

Could this be a potential tattoo? ^^ Ive always wanted a really silly one.

Revising revising

Preview

Whilst revising in my room I become more aware of practical considerations. Ive been revising hunched over on the floor for a good few hours. This has led to carpet burns and a bad back ache. I think its time to invest in a desk. And whilst my big strong man is here, he can carry it home for me maybe? ^^

Whilst looking at the practical I have also been seduced by the ridiculous. USB cup warmer and USB powered mini fridge.

This is Pingvin

This is Pingvin. Martin bought him because he is a bed warmer and because he is an interesting animal. I have a very cold flat and Pingvin helps warm up my bed. He is named after the hospital porter in Riget who transforms himself into a Pingvin to escape danger (inspired by Pingu). Pingvin and I are going to bed now. Nightsie - puss xx

The strangest thing...

A while ago, at a house party at our flat, I stepped on a sharp object. I felt it go into my foot. I was a little drunk at the time and I wrote it off as a random occurence and that if it was a splinter it would somehow come away by itself. This was 2 months ago. Today I was looking at my small toe and thinking its a strange colour. It was quite swollen. I thought it could lance it with a sharp sterilised needle and remove anything purulent. (Yes I know, its a bizzare thing to want to do, but vets have a weird fascination with self diagnosis, self treatment and anything disgusting). Plus as a result of spending a month on pathology I thought I could implement some teaching in action as part of my revision. You know, that might be dry gangrene preceeded by liquefactive necrosis.

Anyway I lanced it with a needle Id sterilised in a flame and saw some pus come away. As some of the tissue on my toe was dead i thought i would try and remove as much of it as possible. As i removed more I saw something dark underneath some of the lower tissue. I made a further incision and the thing stuck in my foot came out quite easily. It was a metal pin, the kind you use to stick things onto walls without its head. About a centimetre long. Gross and weird.

Tomorrow or Friday Ill go to the Liverpool Street drop in NHS clinic and get my foot checked and hopefully get some antibiotics.

The world is my teapot

Have now finished work - I was actually starting to fall asleep backwards. All in all today has been productive - a solid 9 and a 1/2 hours is not bad at all, with more than half of the cardiovascular stuff covered.

Now Im going to relax for a few hours before bed. Blogging, maybe some tea (blackberry is a favourite at the moment), watch some 4OD, music? and read the Satanic Verses again. Ive been looking forward to this all day. Maybe squeeze in some internet shopping. Well I call it internet shopping, you will probly call it putting loads of items in your e-basket and then running off without paying for them. The eqivalent of going 'naaaah Ive changed my mind" at the counter. ^^ The world is now my teapot.

Help meh

Revising in my room and listening to Joy Division. Wearing RVC Hoodie - so this is how its going to be from now on? huh? I want my life back please. (sob)