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Fahye ([personal profile] fahye) wrote2009-08-08 08:27 pm
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when in doubt, make a list

This was going to be yet another post about how my eyes hurt and it's Saturday night and I'm stuck in the library studying the thrilling ins-and-outs of urinary frequency, BUT, instead I'm going to yank some positives out of my life and wave them around, because I have a tendency to forget about them in favour of the things I want to whine about.

Alors:

1) I have discovered the secret to cheap and thigh-friendly chocolate consumption: instead of impulse-buying $2 chocolate bars from the vending machine in moments of intense craving, buy a large packet of mixed fun-sized bars on sale from Coles. Smaller amounts of chocolate! Much less money spent overall! The thrill of sticking your hand into the packet and not knowing whether you'll pull out a Cherry Ripe or a TimeOut or a Crunchie! Le monde est tellement changé!

2) Gastro block is over and renal has arrived, for which I am truly thankful. We've dropped the hideous biochem and we're back in the lovely, logical world of charged particles moving across membranes and drug mechanisms that are easy to understand. Physiology = <3333

3) All the French-language blogs that I follow are fashion blogs. I am acquiring a very specialised kind of vocabulary.

4) [livejournal.com profile] kayloulee has lent me [livejournal.com profile] sarahtales's book The Demon's Lexicon, which I'm going to get a start on as soon as I have finished slogging my way through this chapter of my clinical examination textbook.
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[identity profile] apiphile.livejournal.com 2009-08-08 11:30 am (UTC)(link)
Oooh, what's a Cherry Ripe? That sounds TASTY.
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[identity profile] fahye.livejournal.com 2009-08-08 11:36 am (UTC)(link)
It is my FAVOURITE TYPE OF CHOCOLATE BAR, though I only started liking them a couple of years ago because I disliked coconut for a long time. Which is silly considering how much I love coconut now. A Cherry Ripe is, according to the wrapper, 'ripe juicy cherries and coconut in rich dark chocolate'. By 'ripe juicy' they mean 'glacé', but it is DELICIOUS. More chocolate bars should be made with dark chocolate. You can also get a double-dipped version if you prefer a higher chocolate-to-cherry ratio.

[identity profile] apiphile.livejournal.com 2009-08-08 11:40 am (UTC)(link)
Duuuuuuuude that sounds impossibly fucking delicious. WHY ARE THESE THINGS NOT IN THE UK, SWEET MANUFACTURERS?
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[identity profile] fahye.livejournal.com 2009-08-08 11:44 am (UTC)(link)
Email me your postal address and I'll send you some! We can find out if the UK lets sealed Antipodean chocolate bars into the country.

[identity profile] apiphile.livejournal.com 2009-08-08 11:45 am (UTC)(link)
It definitely does, [livejournal.com profile] avaaricious sent me Freddos from Brisbane because they don't sell them in the UK any more and I missed them. :D

[identity profile] pirateygoodness.livejournal.com 2009-08-08 01:22 pm (UTC)(link)
You are going to have to explain to me how you get renal to stick. I always understand it at the time and get all :D :D INTEGRATED SYSTEM THIS IS SO COOL AND SENSIBLE and then the second my memorization-base goes down even a little (or I forget about one tiny subtype of channel), none of it makes sense anymore.

[identity profile] strange-selkie.livejournal.com 2009-08-08 03:06 pm (UTC)(link)
...They have a MIX BAG where your choices are Time Out, Cherry Ripe, and Crunchie???


OH NORSTRILIA. YOU TAUNT ME.

DO THEY ALSO HAVE MIX BAGS THAT COME WITH COLLEEN MCCULLOUGH NOVELLAS IN SO YOU CAN WASTE YOUR WHOLE AFTERNOON IN ONE GO?
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