A Deeper Beauty

Rhapsody In Chanel

2010-02-10T08:52:00.000-08:00

just found this in my old blog o_O loved this story briefing...never got finished...it was since "anglified" - so Thalia & Maddie became consultants, Elliot & Jessica became "newly qualified doctors" (what's the English equiv of an intern???), Caroline became picky of her career, and only likes being called an Anaesthesiologist (and she's not Elliot's mum, Thalia is). I've modified it from the original (:

Rhapsody In Chanel
(Observing are Owen, and six medical students. Assisting are Elliott Byrne, the newbie (as Thalia calls them), Maddie Greene, a senior registar, with surgical hopes as high as Thalia's, Jessica Hope-Wynne, another newbie, who isn't quite as slow as Elliott, Caroline Byrne, yes, Elliott's mom, as who's an anaesthetist, and two scrub nurses).

Rhapsody In Chanel is my story about a professional, and sometimes annoying, surgeon called Thalia Harkness (Byrne), who also works for Torchwood. No one actually knows if she's married to Jack, or is just using his name, but either way, she's brilliant, and she knows it. She doesn't let anyone tell her what to do, and even ignores Jack most of the time; and it's him who's in charge of her when she's at Torchwood.

In her operating theatre, she is the sole responsibility for keeping patients alive, and she has never lost a patient under anaesthetic; not even the one's she nearly lost to a powercut, as she tries to explain, after a heart transplant nearly ends in disaster.

She's a pain the backside, and she knows it. She constantly knocks the confidence of an average surgeon, who, as a first year registrar surgeon, is still learning a little bit, but is learning to be headstrong, because he knows that missus Harkness is very unlikely to change; she's much older than him, and, compared to her fourteen years as a surgeon (four years as a consultant), has only just really qualified.
She's possibly the only surgeon where she works, that will give a student lecture through major surgery, and the only one she knows that can out-smart her anaesthetist when it comes to the correct dosages of anaesthetics.

Most of her free time is spent with the man she loves. Or should that be men? She's properly in love with Owen, someone she taught medicine to as a new Consultant surgeon. But she still has feelings for Jack, over on hundred and thirty years since they met, working for the Time Agency; it was her that really got him the job with Torchwood, although he doesn't know it, and he still thinks Thalia's completely nuts.

So, after an almost disasterous transplant,Thalia, sat in her office, amusing Owen with stories of her time at medical school, receives call from Jack, who's in a panic, because Toshiko has showed him live news footage of something happening at the hospital.
But, after the scare that it my be Chlostridium Deficile, Thalia, Owen and surprisingly Elliott, find out that it's far from it, and must stop whatever it is. Because whatever it is, isn't human...

Medical Science Interview

2010-02-10T08:46:00.000-08:00

Meh. Have my interview in about an hour and half. Don't want to go, but sort of have to. I have a feeling I wont end up getting the place though.

It's for a medical science course, which is likely to prepare me for a degree in medicine, nursing or biochemistry.I don't think I should feel too crappy about it, because it's either my physics tutor or my chemistry tutor who'll be giving my interview, but I have a problem with speaking out loud - I know what I want to say, but I don't seem to be able to get it out of my mouth a lot of the time. Which is odd, because if I'm in class, I tend to be VERY loud. I don't think I'll get it because of some issues with late coursework, but it's still college, not university, so maybe...I've worked really hard, and I've agreed dates with my tutors when I can hand in my work (handed in a two-month overdue chemistry assignment today...handing in a two-month overdue assignment for physics tomorrow...I got a referral on both of them).

Thinking about it now, though, there are students who are a lot worse at handing assignments in, and who haven't got any kind of grades (so far I've been blessed with three passes, two merits & two distinctions) and my attendance has been near-perfect (two lates...one full day), so maybe I need to chill a bit & look at it possitively? lol, this turned into more of a bit of a rant, I think (:

2009-12-03T05:42:00.000-08:00

I'm not rambling on about science today...Well, apart from the fact I really want to know the electron configuration of Francium so I can include something *quite clever* in my chemistry assignment...

The weekend starts here, and I am going to York for the day & to stay overnight on Saturday, and will probably spend the entire journey there doing coursework. I'm sad like that, you see.

I've not really watched much of I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here! this season, but the bits that I have bothered watching have been Rubbish with a capital R. There's been hardly any good bits that they have bothered to show us.

Yey! John & Sinead Kerr (Murrayfield FSC) are the first dance team from GBR to skate at the Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final, this season, and they could very well medal. And the certainly deserve it. They are in 4th place after the Original Dance...Just fractions of a point out of 3rd...

Whilst I'm on the subject of skating...Here are the first results from Tokyo:
Ice Dance Results (Original Dance)
1 Meryl DAVIS / Charlie WHITE USA 65.80 1
2 Tessa VIRTUE / Scott MOIR CAN 64.01 2
3 Nathalie PECHALAT / Fabian BOURZAT FRA 56.93 3
4 Sinead KERR / John KERR GBR 56.47 4
5 Anna CAPPELLINI / Luca LANOTTE ITA 54.91 5
6 Vanessa CRONE / Paul POIRIER CAN 51.69 6

Pairs Result (SP)
1 Xue SHEN / Hongbo ZHAO CHN 75.36 1
2 Aliona SAVCHENKO / Robin SZOLKOWY GER 73.14 2
3 Maria MUKHORTOVA / Maxim TRANKOV RUS 69.78 3
4 Qing PANG / Jian TONG CHN 68.04 4
5 Dan ZHANG / Hao ZHANG CHN 66.24 5
6 Yuko KAVAGUTI / Alexander SMIRNOV RUS 62.30 6

Junior Men Results (SP)
1 Nan SONG CHN 71.70 1
2 Ross MINER USA 70.85 2
3 Yuzuru HANYU JPN 69.85 3
4 Grant HOCHSTEIN USA 66.45 4
5 Artur GACHINSKI RUS 62.44 5
6 Richard DORNBUSH USA 59.35 6
7 Stanislav KOVALEV RUS 57.69 7
8 Kento NAKAMURA JPN 57.16 8

Junior Pairs Result (SP)
1 Wenjing SUI / Cong HAN CHN 56.80 1
2 Narumi TAKAHASHI / Mervin TRAN JPN 54.44 2
3 Ksenia STOLBOVA / Fedor KLIMOV RUS 48.90 3
4 Kaleigh HOLE / Adam JOHNSON CAN 47.00 4
5 Yue ZHANG / Lei WANG CHN 46.04 5
6 Tatiana NOVIK / Mikhail KUZNETSOV RUS 45.72 6
7 Britney SIMPSON / Nathan MILLER USA 44.48 7
8 Alexandra VASILIEVA / Yuri SHEVCHUK RUS 43.08 8

Senior ladies & Men/Junior ladies & dance: Still awaiting result

Personally, I'm unsurprised with the current senior pairs result, but I am soooo rooting for John & Sinead in Dance. They are fractions of a point out of 3rd after the original dance...

I will try & post the rest of the results on Monday (when I'm back in College)

Cheerios, Alex x

It's not perfect, I'm not quite sure I've worked out how to work it...

2009-12-02T06:55:00.000-08:00

So. Rates of reaction, anyone??? Nope. Me either. Confusing.

So, what else? I'm becoming more, and more, and more addicted to twitter. The proof is that I'm still posting @ 3 in the morning, when I'm supposed to be in bed. And that I have just added a twitter add-on to my blog...

College was pretty good today...Afternoon was boring though. Have to do English supplementary classes. But they're on the computer, so I normally escape to Twitter. Used to be Facebook, but college has had it blocked again. Probably because of people like me.

The chemistry tutor shouted at us all today because we were being too loud, and a friend and I ended up staying behind for ten minutes after class to talk to the tutor about why we thought it was a bad thing for people to shout over everyone else. Still, we had nothing else to do, so...yeah...Ha!

In other news...Is there any? Apart from the conversation I had on Twitter, there's not much going on...I've decided I'm doing no christmas shopping until Christmas eve, so everyone will have to wait for their presents, because I really need my money for other purposes at the moment...I only get £30 a week, so I have to be careful that I don't spend too much, and that's difficult sometimes, because I have to eat & have something to drink!

So, lyrics for the day:
This is my Earth/And I live in it/It’s one third dirt/And two thirds water/And it rotates and revolves through space/At rather an impressive pace/And never even messes up my hair/And here’s the really weird thing/The force created by its spin/Is the force that stops the chaos flooding in

Not funny or clever, but a bit thoughtful & beautiful.

If anyone cares to explain the electron configuration of Francium to me, please do! Alex x

Love is nothing to do with destined perfection, the connection, the affection simply grows over time...like a banana

2009-12-01T08:28:00.000-08:00

This is a song for Phil Daoust, occasional Guardian newspaper journal-aoust...
When it's a variation between that (^) and You grew on me/like a tumour/and you spread through me like malignant melanoma, concentration is not the easiest task.
So...The good news? I got a merit for a piece of coursework I thought wouldn't even see a pass. It was Biology. The subject that has interesting stuff, but the subject that we've probably only seen the tutor for five times. And what's even more shocking? I still don't think I understand biological taxonomy! I just want to get on to the Human Physiology stuff...
And the bad news? I got a pass for a piece of coursework I thought would get a merit on. It was physics. It has to be said though, in all fairness, it's the subject I understand the least. But I thought I'd at least grabbed the concept enough to get the assignment up to a good grade :|
Energy Cycles...Well, I did accidentally do two examples that were the same as each other. I just didn't realise whilst I was writing, that when coal is burnt, it's a fossil fuel, so a Fossil Fuel Power Plant is the same as a Coal-Burning Power Plant. Still, I don't think I could have done anything else, because I couldn't find an example for a TV. I was embarrassed to say the least, when he handed my coursework back and said it was the same thing. I could've died.

The trip has been cancelled!!! We were supposed to be visiting some mill tomorrow, but the college doesn't have the funding to let us go. Which is definitely a good thing. It's cold & wet at this time of year. I'm not getting lost somewhere that I am not familiar with.

So...And love is made more real by the ongoing drama of shared experience/And the synergy of a kind of symbiotic empathy/Or...something/So I trust it goes without saying that I would feel really very sad/If tomorrow you were to fall off something high/Or catch something bad/But I'm just saying/I don't think you're special/I mean...I mean I think you're special/but you fall within a bell curve/I mean...I'm just saying/(I really think that I would, have somebody else)/Yeah...

Meh. I'm off to the gym now, Alex x

2009-11-30T07:29:00.000-08:00

So, most of my happy things seem to be about science these days, but I am really enjoying switching to science from performing arts.
It might sound mad, but I really do enjoy the theory parts, because I love learning about science & everything...But I also like the experiments, for instance, what we did today was quite interesting (although I was rather sarcastic about it earlier).I finally finished the last part of my physics assignment, and I'm so happy, because I can give it to my tutor all finished and everything!

Also, I asked my chem tutor if I'd got the first part of the work right, and she said I'd done more than I needed to, so I am really, really over the moon that I actually understand it enough to have done more than I needed to!

Away from science, we got a Freeview Recorder box at the weekend, which means that when the Olympics are on, I don't have to stay up all night watching the TV and that I can record it instead, so yey!

College is pretty good this year...I mean, it was last year, but like, I get on with everyone on this course...

Loveliness, Alex x