Tick Tock

Right well I'm packed and ready to go, and boy was that a difficult task. I had been trying half heartedly to pack on thursday evening, but decided to give up on the geometry puzzle that is an Osprey backpack - OK it is beautifully engineered, but would it have killed them to have but a couple of side baffles/pockets on it??

After a surprisingly mudane mock exam - never while at the medical school have I seen of group of people going into an exam with a more cool and collected attitude. There was a feel of "In the last 24hrs I have sat your dreaded ICE exam AND also been for a ride on the emotional rollercoast that is the collection of the result, so frankly, this is mock, bring it I'm good"

Ok maybe the general consensus was more along the lines of "Mock...huh...ok fair enough" but I'm sure there were a couple of students who had slightly more expansive monologues going through there heads.

But back to the packing - 3 HOURS later i had managed to compress, tease, beg and plead what seemed to be at least 100L of clothing and gear into a 68L backpack and frankly I was quite pleased to find that I was a pifling 100g over my luggage allowance. Frankly I would have thought it would have been a problem, and if it is, I'll just eat one of the plethora of chocolate bars I'll be travelling with - either that or one of my pairs of socks- they do have a fairly appetising chocolate/caramel look going on.

As for Mayhem, I believe that the issue of where or not he would need another pair of shoes came up, and whether an alternate pair would clash with the African decor of the Serenghetti. Perhaps that is stretching a point, but in a quest for reduced rate, I am sure that the Maasai will not mind if he was forced to leave his hair straighteners at home (for those of you keeping score at home you may have noticed a recurrent theme regarding Mayhem and his desire for excessive use of hair manipulation devices - just for the record, I think that anything beyond a brush is overdoing it, but then again I also think I have a parasitic organism on my head rather than hair - I'd probably have more control over it in that respect I think!

Well the hour grows late, and an all together unwelcome train journey awaits tomorrow before a 9.5 hr flight to Tanzania, so on that note I'll say good night

TTFN

Kaos