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1. This week the temperature here in the Netherlands has been high (about 25-30C). I like it better to be inside than outside to be honest. Not that I don't like some nice summer weather, but I have exams (theoretical as well as practical) next Tuesday, so I wouldn't mind some rain and a lower temperature.

2. Yesterday we got the results of our yearassignment of science. We passed with a 8,5 out of 10! :D I'm so glad that it is over, for it caused me a lot of stress.

3. It seems like my bloodpressure is getting back to a normal vallue again (systolic between 135-145). Perhaps you remember that for the pas two years my systolic (upper) pressure had been somewhat between 150 and 180 (with a perfect diastolic value). Perhaps this rice was indeed due to my use of the contraception pill (before I started taking that, I used to have a somewhat perfect pressure of 120/80 or something near that), but I'll never be sure. I just hope that it will get back to that level again.

4. Talking about the oral contraceptive pill: yesterday I went back to the chemist's to bring back pills for nine months to have them destroyed. Don't know why I still had them (since I stopped taking them half a year ago for various reasons), but now it's really defenitive.

5. You know, sometimes I get really frustrated about discussions about medical ethics. People can be so harsh in their judgement, with having hardly any medical knowledge. And with this I also mean fellow christians with mostly the same point of view as I have. Not that I claim to know all things, but I try to look at both sides before saying something is good or bad, or to conclude that things could be an exception. But guess that my comments can also come across as harsh, in medical discussions as well as in dicussions involving other topics of which I know less.

6. I'm tired. Yes, I know I'm always tired, wouldn't know what it is to have full energy, but having to take a nap in the afternoon I think is an indicator that I could use some rest. Hopefully I'll pass my exams next week, after which I have holiday for 3,5 weeks. How I look forward to that.

7. This time next week I will be in Maarheeze for Bootcamp. I'm looking forward to that week, and hope everything will turn out fine. There's just still some pressure, not in the least because I have to cook for the group and since I'm not such a good cook, I hope it is edible. But this is made worse by the news that some cook will make up the menue and order the ingredients..and that I have to cook...euhm..right. Think I will have to talk to him to ensure the participants get a decent meal each day.