Not much whining, though pretty cheesy

Hello all, I hope you are having a good thing. My time here is going by swimmingly. Surprisingly quick, in fact: I can't believe I'm already approaching week 11 of school and the weeks go faster than the weekends.
I have joined the ultimate frisbee league, sadly shearing the not-so-fine line betwixt playing frisbee for fun and playing it with score-keeping (and you hafta to pay to join, too). But I have finally learned how to throw a flick and maybe one day will be able to hit the 'mo.
Speaking of general health stuff, I've also started swimming a bit more seriously, putting in a mile each time I go (this is also a fiscal thing, however, as it costs me 3.5$ every time I go swim so i must get the most out of it). Also, we had a clinical session where we learned some of the basic vital sign taking techniques and practised on each other. I learned how to use a sphygmometer and got a blood pressure of 120/70, which is delicious. I learned the different areas to take a pulse (61 resting bpm) and how doctors fool you when they are counting your respiratory rate (since if they tell you they're counting your breathing rate, you obviously change your pattern, what they do is hold your wrist against your chest, pretending to be counting your pulse but in fact feeling for the rise of the chest) and go to use a nifty pricking device to measure blood glucose levels. We were showed how to do EEGs but unfortunately didn't get to practice on each other. The most fun was the lung capacity test. It was a hard one, for soothe, but we were all getting very competitive and light headed. Mine was 4.6L, which is alright but should be better. Next time, vitalometer!
Last Friday the housemates all made some homemade pizza (dough, tomato sauce, e'rything) and garlic bread and then watched a movie, delicious. On Saturday I went to the market as usual to get the gorgeous fruits and veggies (mmm, I'm drinking a smoothie right now from fresh watermelon, kiwi, starfruit, and lime) and then afterwards went to see a movie with a guy from my class (out of school friends!). We went to see The Lives of Others, which was really fooking good - I suggest you all see it and pay attention especially to the main character who looks like he was winner of East Berlin's Annual Kevin Spacey Look-a-like Contest! Afterwards the guy and I went to a 'bowling club'. Here bowling = lawn bowling = outside on grass where everyone wheres white. It was nighttime so I didn't get to see what lawn bowling actually is, however the spot was right on the river and had cheap beers and was therefore good.
Sunday I biked in the morning; nothing serious, only 55k since I wanted to study in the afternoon (oh Michael's, how though hast changed! I was home by 11am after having biked 55k, and then went to university to study on a Sunday, with no test in sight). We went up two small mountains and did a bit o' mtnbkng and saw some great views of Brisbane. Also, we went to a huge park where all these boy-men were flying their huge RC airplanes. We waited patiently for a crash but there was none.
This last week went well and fast, but this was because I was very excited for Thursday (yesterday). As I've explained many times, we have small group discussion twice a week, same 9 ppl and a cool doctor-teacher and we all really get along together. So we planned for yesterday's session (noon-2, last class of the day) to be a wine&cheese party. Fan-fucking-tastic. Sitting in our classroom, drinking lots of wine and eating lots of cheese while we discuss the intricate mechanisms of diabetes. It was much more lively than that picture shows, trust me. We hung out for a bit longer in the classroom, and then moved on to a bar and played pool and drank more for a while. This is when people started dicking out, sadly enough. I was all gung-ho on going bowling (either kind) and I thought we had planned on it, but people just kind of phased out. I ended up going to one guy's home and eating dinner and playing poker and then coming back home, happy, though. Who knows what this weekend will bring? There're some parties and other shit but I'll hopefully do some studying. Next week I go to Korea for 10 days and I'm damn-fucking excited. I'm still figuring out if I can bike to the airport with my luggage. We'll see.
Jesus, I didn't know that!1
This week's case was on diabetes and we got to learn all about it. I guess an interesting thing that I semi-knew before but not in detail was about the unfortunate condition known as 'diabetic foot'. One problem with diabetes is that due to vascularisation problems, they get neuropathy (neuro= nerves, pathy = disease) where they lost feeling, especially in their feet (since those are the longest nerve fibres). So what happens is that these people can have too tight shoes or step on a nail or melt the bottom of their feet on hot asphalt or just get general cuts and shit. Normally, we would notice this and take care of it and wouldn't have to worry about anything, but since these poor souls cannot feel this stuff, they don't notice any problems and then infection and her god-cousin gangrene set in and then people lose their feet. (It's not just neuropathy, though, since they have some immune problems as well). This can also happen to their eyes, though not through the same mechanism.
What else have I learned? Well, I know now intricately the process of food-energy, with all the storage in between. The reason you shouldn't starve yourself to lose that fat? Because a considerable amount of your protein goes to keep your energy flowing, and not enough of your fat. Also, a biochem textbook stated that an average person can last 90 days without eating but an obese person can survive up to a year (!) without eating. Where's the fun in that?