The Omlette Diaries

**omlette** · 23-04-2006, 05:14 AM

Oh dear. I have finally succumbed to lure of the self-centred-like-anybody-gives-a-**** rantings that are weblogs and decided to start my own. Purely because I am in the mood to write a blog entry, but don't want to write one on my MSN space blog cos I wrote one there a few days ago and don't want to sound too over-enthusiastic. Or like I have no life. For the record, if ye does wish to access my MSN space blog (it is, afterall, a good read) the address for omlette-land is: http://spaces.msn.com/omletteland/

Would do a lil biog, but I figure there really ain't anything to know about me that isn't already explained on my profile. The extra info that isn't on there is that this, my first attempt at applying for med, failed dramatically with 4 rejections, 2 w/o interview. As a consequence I am now going to Cardiff or Leicester to do Psychology.

I shall continue this entry later. Dr Who is on, followed by "Strictly Dance Fever", followed by Casualty, and I know where my priorities lie.

**omlette** · 23-04-2006, 07:18 AM

Okay, in continuation of the entry above... am now ridiculously sunburnt after a hard day at work. I guess that'll teach me for hanging around afterwards eyeing up the rugby players. I can't help it, they're all so buff. Was nice to have such lovely weather, usually I'm sheltering from a blizzard or trying to stop my trolley from blowing away. And I got to sell at gate 3 which is where all the players come in. For those of you reading this who haven't yet checked out either my MSG profile or my MSNspace, I work at the Twickenham Stoop, home of NEC Harlequins and Harlequins RL (formerly London Broncos), and it's wicked. For a crazy rugby union fan like me there is no better saturday job. I've seen the likes of Jonny Wilkinson, Martin Johnson, Lawrence Dallaglio... anyhoo, I digress. Usually I'm stuck in the far corner but today I got the sunny spot and... I saw Mike Brown!!!! Eng U 21 player; learn that name ppl he's destined for big things!!!! He's also sehr buff. But before all the males reading this roll their eyes, I do love rugby for other reasons, it's just a perk that the players are gorge.

Wow, this whole entry has been nothing but insane babble. As I was saying, I now resemble a red panda (only not cute and fluffy). Memo to self: next week, wear sunscreen.

**omlette** · 26-04-2006, 12:37 AM

Arrrgh!!!!!!! My life is officially over, (of course as in "O-V-A-H, ovah!", to quote Kath & Kim- best tv prog ever!!!) after a lifetime of straight teeth, omlette is going to be (sarcastic "yay") a brace-wearing uni student!!! It's annoying bcos we have been through this whole saga re: my orthodontics. My dentist picked up the prob late, then referred me to this dikhed who was like "yeh, u need work done, we must start now!", so i bookk myself another appointment with him to get a brace fitted ASAP, and i turn up and he's like "no we aint prepared to do it on the nhs, your dentist refered you wrong", so then we go back to the dentist, and finally get referred to this other place which (it turns out) can treat me on the nhs. All this has wasted about, ooh, 6 months, which could have been spent having valuable treatment so I wouldn't be spending my first 2 yrs at uni be-braced, but nooooo, now i'm gonna be a metal-mouth. Sigh.

The funny thing is, this lady spent aages looking in my mouth, double-checking everything, measuring my bite etc. and came to the conc. that I need 3 teeth out. Neither my dentist or the crap orthodontist looked this long or came to this conclusion. They were just like, "ooh, your teeth are gonna end up wonky. we can fix it. that'll be £3 grand please". Bloody cheek. I promise as soon as I get them fitted i'll post a luverly piccie on the rogue's gallery thread, and I'll also post a before one so y'all can see my "cherie blair" smile.

Oooh, and if anyone else out there is going to be a brace-wearing uni student, feel free to PM me so we can share in group angst.

And also, I'm on the quest for a good vegetarian supper recipe. preferably mexican themed. Please no mushrooms. If ye have any hot suggestions, also PM me.

**omlette** · 26-04-2006, 01:03 AM

yay!!!!

finally replied to my offers!!!!!!! Bloody keele took ages to inform UCAS, i almost thought I was gonna have to give them a poke with a sharp stick, but luckily it's come through!!!! So the table finally looks a little like this:

Cardiff - psych - AAA - firm
Leicester - psych - ABB - insurance.

Yeah I know, 3 A's just for psychology. That's higher than the requirement for medicine (and yet I got the place twice as easily!!!).

**omlette** · 30-04-2006, 03:07 PM

Well, yesterday was the last Rugby Union match of the season at Quins -

- and, OH MY GOD!!! It was absolutely amazing!!!! It was a double header, so the Union match followed by the League, but luckily I didn't have to work all that time. Stayed and watched the match, which was fantastic , and then milled around chatting to my boss until the league game, and stayed for the first half of that too.

Okay, I realise I'm waffling, so I'll get straight to the point: I met Mike Brown!!!!!! Basically (me being the sad-ass fan that I am), the Quins guys stuck around until half time of the League match to sign autographs etc. and do a lap of honour, so there were all these fans by the pitch (seeing as I was watching the league game I thought "why not", so got Gavin Duffy's autograph, lol), and then at the end of half time I realised that I better leave cos Dr Who was on, and just as I was walking round the back of the Lexus Stand, all the players emerged from the back door of the changing rooms (that sounds a bit dubious, I know, but they were in suits), and I thought "shall I/ shan't I?", then when all these kids started harrassing for autographs I thought "what the heck" and got Mike Brown to sign for me too. Then (cos they were all walking to the players lounge which was on the other side of the ground, as was my exit), as I was walking through the tunnel under the north stand just so happened to be the same time that Mike and one of the coaches were walking through to. That was when I overheard him saying about some try he scored during the game, and I thought "but you didn't score, your liar!", so I turned to him and said "you scored a try???", and he was like "yeah, but the referee disallowed it.", and I was like "oh right" (realising that I musta missed it as I was probs still working), and at that point, the tunnel ended, he was stopped by more crazy autograph hunters, and I exited stage left.

Bless him, he was such a sweetie. I know people often say this when they meet like, their idol, say. (Not that I idolise any of the quins players. I'll support them through thick and thin cos they're my team, but I do see them more as "work colleagues", in the same way that the stewards are our work colleagues, and yet we don't know any of them, we just say hi occasionally and talk about the weather.) But anyhoo, he really was such a lovely, softly-spoken "young man". And he's totally gorgeous, without being too good-looking for his own good. He just oozes niceness.

I missed Dr Who in the end. But it was worth it.

**omlette** · 12-05-2006, 10:41 PM

Whoa!!!! I just came back on this site cos I ain't been on in ages and now it's all gone crazy!!!! How on earth am I supposed to easily navigate around all this junk?!!!!

Will make this a quickie cos Green Wing is on and I need a bath. Been spending this entire past few weeks traipsing around the internet looking for cheap hotels, as we're going to Paris in half term for a short break. Luckily we have now found and booked one, but it was getting a bit endless. We couldn't go to this one cos the decor was awful, couldn't go here cos it was too far out, and this one was too expensive, etc. Trying to get a balance between "cheap" and "hygienic" is a nightmare. Eventually opted for one in the Latin Quarter run by mad Algerians. Will let ye all know how it goes etc.

**omlette** · 12-05-2006, 10:42 PM

oooohhhhhh!!!!! I'm dissecting a rat on wednesday!!!!! Will also let ye know how that goes....

**omlette** · 21-05-2006, 11:44 PM

Whoa, ain't been on in ages cos I've been revising hard! (Blatant lie, i know). Actually, cos this week was my last at school we've just kinda been arsing around, I haven't felt like working yet. Made a giant Organic Synthetic Pathway for my wall tho, so I guess that kinda counts.

Anyhoo, did the rat dissection which was wicked; usually I end up butchering whatever it is I dissect. Like this one time, when we did the eye, I managed to spill my retina everywhere in the process of inverting the thing. I had to perform emergency retinal reconstructive surgery, kinda scraping it off the newspaper. Lol, obviously Opthalmology isn't for me. Pictures of the rat are on my msn space. (Actually I also lie, one of them is. The one with the close up of the rat itself I didn't put up cos I didn't wanna gross out my friends).

Ooh, also, I was looking at the Cardiff accomo brochure, and I'm kinda spilt between Talybont and Senghennydd- if any 'Diff students are reading this, where do u recommend, what are the pros/cons etc.?? PM me pls. (I had read a thread on this a while back but I'm being lazy cos I cant b assed to find it). Cheers ppls.

**omlette** · 01-06-2006, 10:41 PM

Wow. Just got back from a short break in Paris. (Should be revising, I know, but I needed a holiday). Second trip in as many months due to the fact that when we went in October, Eurostar mucked up our hotel and double booked it so we got a refund and free trip voucher which needed using. So anyhoo, we went again, to a different part. It's such a gorgoeus city etc. and I can't wait to go back, but to be honest we seem to be jinxed when it comes to return journeys back to Londinium.

Last time the train was delayed. This time, we were delayed 1 1/2 hours before we could get on the train. Then, because ours ate into the next train's signals slot and there was no crew, they cancelled the train after ours (the last of the night), and decided to let 150 of the 500 or so passengers on that train onto ours. Even though there were no free seats. So people were basically sitting in the luggage racks and in the aisles for the 3 hour journey. In total we were delayed by 3 hours, arrived en Angleterre at past midnight, so the other trains had stopped running. Luckily we were all given free taxis and offered refunds etc. The journey itself was bare jokes tough. It's funny how things like this seem to increase the camaraderie between people. (Some people, not all though). Lol, we were sitting near these gay guys, these two middle-aged women and a woman and her elderly mother from the other train (the elderly lady had been given one of the few spare seats and her daughter sat on the floor). The gay guys managed to polish off two bottles of champagne. It was defo one of the more bizarre journeys I've been on.

**omlette** · 06-06-2006, 10:27 PM

Whoooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I PASSED MY DRIVING TEST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Only 12 minors!!!!!!!!!!!!! Well, i say only, lol. Was expecting higher, as was my instructor, but still, at least I passed. She reckoned it was because the examiner was new, so was picking up on faults which would normally be overlooked. For example, four of my minors were for driving too slow. TOO SLOW???!!!!! Would you rather I sped and killed us all??!!!!! I only ever drove at an appropriate speed throughout. Okay, so there was this one road with a 40 limit and I was doing 30, but you are always taught to never go faster than you feel in control. Usually I'm a lil demon, but this was an unfamiliar road, it was very narrow and had lots of sharp bends, so I couldn't drive much faster. Stuff the guy in the Merc behind me. And I got 2 for hesitations (there was stuff coming!!!). The reason the test over-ran was because he spent ages taking me all around the back streets trynna find an appropriate corner for me to reverse round, not because I drove slow. Moron. After half an hour he gave up and made me do an Austin Powers-style million-point turn in a very narrow road.

Anyhoo, watch out world: omlette is tearing up the highways!!!!!