Birthday...Drumroll Please....

My 21st birthday today. I don't know what I expected to happen, a brass band, hordes of strippers, Noel Edmonds and Jimmy Saville outside my front door with a medal? Well whatever it was, although I didn't really hold out for much, I can't help feeling a little melancholic. When I come to think of it, for each birthday for the past few years I've actually felt quite reminiscent, maybe even a bit low. I had my birthday meal last week, and all the presents. And I got the obligatory Facebook mass of messages from my mates. But somehow, for some reason, I miss the days when I'd get a surprise present or party. Silly really.
Late as usual, to old age lectures for 9am. The first on Parkinson's was fine, although a little dry as I find most neurology. The second, on the sociology of aging, was as tedious as hell and I was fairly lucky in that I had to duck out for a scheduled tutorial. I enjoy tutorial teaching, it gives me a good chance to get some time talking to someone who really knows what they're on about. I do have a nasty habit though, of knowing the answer to most questions but being about a second too slow to answer each time. Then when it's specifically my turn, and I'm asked what rare changes to look for on an ECG of a patient with a pulmonary embolus, I look like a tit.
Wasted a good few hours past lunchtime on stickcricket.com with a mate. I kill him every time, even though of the two of us he's the only one that plays in real life.
After my cyber triumph, I actually bothered to go up to D5 and see some sick people. They're everywhere up there. Saw a lady who had not yet been told about the presence of an adenocarcinoma (common lung cancer) in her right upper lobe. She did seem pretty savvy about it though, and will probably have her inklings. She has emphysema as well already, but is only 63. I will almost certainly use her as my essay patient.
Missed hockey, partly through birthday "blues" and partly through laziness.
Cue the fireworks- my spot is on the way down!!