Well the past seven days have been fantastic, scary and frustrating all at the same time!

They have been fantastic on the game front. I got: Fahrenheit, God of War, Burnout Revenge, and Far Cry Instincts. Now that’s a tasty line up of games. It’s got all those really good elements that I love. There’s great graphics, phenomenal storylines, amazing game play, lots of gore, online rampage and very fast cars! What more could you want in a collection. They truly are a pack of games to be drooled over, if someone had left them on my door step I would have hunted them down and given them a muffin basket.

So why has my week been scary? Well today I am sitting in a computer lab obviously not doing what I came here to do. I have to read up on the wonders of p73 and the things that it can bind to! It really is quite fascinating but I won’t bore anyone with the details. I’m doing this because tomorrow I start in a real cancer research lab. That’s a real lab, with no teachers or lab procedure books, I’m terrified. As of tomorrow I am no longer considered a student, but part of a research team and as such I’m supposed to come up with experiments and be knowledgeable. But I’m still a tiny little undergraduate, sniff.

So that leaves me with why the last seven days have been frustrating. Well it’s really a simple combination of the above two points. So I have all these really cool games, but I also have to read more scientific literature than is contained in a small library. Not a good combination, as I’m sure many of you know. The inner me keeps pulling at my skirt hem saying ‘but I wanna play computer games’. Well I’m ashamed to say that Fahrenheit and God of War have been put completely on the back burners, and I’ve only managed one brief online stint of Far Cry. So Burnout Revenge has won my free moments and it has delivered, they have not been wasted hours.

Things will of course settle down. I’m sure my lab will be friendly and the work at a do-able level. I will become so good at reading scientific jargon that it will take mere seconds, and gaming can once again fill my boring moments. I can’t wait to get my teeth into Far Cry, fight my way through legendary lands pf Greece, and kill off Lucas Kane through new and more inventive suicides………