January 1, 2007

After several failed attempts, I begin another suspiciously sedentary attempt to chronicle my life. For many reasons, including auspiciousness, free time, and maybe even a touch of vanity, I deem my current existance worthy of some kind of reference.
It only seems apt that I should begin with a quick summary of my life as it stands. If I were to be defined, I would have to say the category into which I most pertinently fall is "medical student". Third year, actually. My first was free of complication, my second was a meeting between me and the pass-grade boundary, a duel from which I emerged only victorious by the slightest of margins. Now in my third year of five, I have rediscovered an interest in medicine, the absence of which was more to do with my troubles than an absence of potential, I feel.
I am based in Southampton General Hospital, in the south of England, at the university of the same name. It was at one the halls of residence at this institution that I met my present girlfriend of two years, on only my second day after moving away from my family. Vera is the single most influential person in my current life, and carries the most responsibility for my character aside from my parents. She is in short, one in a million.
Don't be fooled by the apparently articulate text, I am in fact averaging around a minute a word in a foolish attempt to appear vaguely literate. This is somewhat underlined by my choice of part time occupation, namely online poker. I know, I know, before you say it, I make money. More than my student loans donate to the cause, anyway. In the past the game has funded trips to various exotic places including Nepal, Paris and Prague, and is currently doing what it can to avert overdraft disaster (I don't play during term-time anymore due to the emotional "disturbance" the swings of profit and loss give me).
As for hobbies, I am a jack-of-all trades, and believe me, a master of none. I played chess as a boy and reached a respectable level, I now play on 3rd board of my university team, on which I have so far scored 66%. I am the goalkeeper for the medical student's hockey team, for whom I produce (I'd like to think) acceptable performances for, and we are persistently a national semi-final team. I have been attending karate lessons for the last 4 months, and the change is visible, although I remain on the lowest rung of the ladder.
I of course remain a staunch supporter of acute alcoholism.
For now, I think that is all. In time I'll pad out the details, and of course include current affairs. I might even drop this upper-class tone and type like I actually talk.
Adios!