An observation at uni

Seeing as when I was a university student, the cool thing was to sling your backpack over one shoulder only (rather than wear it properly using both straps), I have found it interesting to notice that pretty much all the uni students these days do in fact wear their packs properly. I guess they've been indoctrinated in school into avoiding shoulder/neck/back pain from carrying unbalanced loads ...

"Monte's all grown up...

... and has left the blogosphere to become a cabinet minister" (in the words of Warren Kinsella). Which is too bad, because Monte has a nifty folksy style of writing and an interesting attitude, which I always enjoyed reading (even if I didn't always agree with his party's platform, and I could never relate to his getting up so incredibly early in the mornings).

I have no comment about other political happenings this week other than being disappointed ...

February Update

We have a new Prime Minister (as of tomorrow), I started working again 2 weeks ago, and I have had my appointment at the Fertility Clinic now and some follow-up testing done. So I figured I should probably do a more personal update rather than all the politics - I'm sick of politics at this point. All I want to know tomorrow (swearing in ceremonies) is whether my MP makes it into cabinet or not... (of course I stayed up way too late on election night to follow all the results, and have been paying for it ever since).

I started working again 2 weeks ago, a walk-in clinic mainly for university students, so it's a nice change of pace. I'm quite relieved to find myself enjoying it (mostly), so I know that it wasn't a case of hating medicine entirely, just that I wasn't in the right situation with my previous job. I'm just struggling to get out of my bad habits of staying up late at night to e-mail/chat with other cycling fans in Australia, seeing as I can't sleep in any more.

I'm very stressed about my follow-up appointment tomorrow at the Fertility Clinic - last week I had a hysterosalpingogram (HSG), and learned that this test is not a pleasant one. I knew that already beforehand, but I thought I was tough - yeah right it's like "discomfort like severe menstrual cramps", this was pain, not cramps ... at least it didn't last long. It's kind of a good news/bad news scenario all at once, whatever the results are - I don't really want there to be something wrong (a blockage of the fallopian tubes is basically what this test looks for), but on the other hand it would probably be better to find something that hopefully can be fixed... but the pain of the test made me think about how far I'd be willing to go in our quest to get pregnant.