Mogwai?

Hi there! How's it going? I just finished a physiology test and am waiting to go to a meeting at noon. I (very lucikly) was one of the people chosen to be an ambassador for our class and they are going to go over everything so that they can prepare us to give tours and all that good stuff. =) This test was actually not that bad, which is good for me because I really needed a booster for this test because I didn't do that great on the first one. Now I need to start getting ready for Gross Anatomy which is next Friday.. and that's going to be a pretty big test.. we have the lecture and lab tests on the same day. Oh the joy... =/

On more exciting news, we might be getting a kitten! Dr. Abel has a kitten that one of her clients couldn't keep (found as a stray) and she brought it into the lab yesterday... Of course I had to go and hold him and love him...! But Mike and I really did want to get another cat so that Faceman could have a buddy. Face always trys to play with Cory and he's just like.. CAT, GO AWAY..! I mean, sometimes they play, but it's not really the same. I'm thinking a kitten would be great for Face because he'd really get to grow and like Face... not like Moose who didn't want to accept Faceman... poor Faceman.. he keeps getting rejected! hehe. So she's going to call me later today to drop him off and I'm going to keep him for the weekend and see how it goes. My plan is to keep the kitten in the study room or bedroom until Face becomes interested in meeting him (which I think will be fairly quickly).. Then I'll let them meet through the carrier for a day, then maybe let him out if Faceman doesn't show any aggression.

So... I'll let you know how that goes! Oh.. and I think I'm going to name him Mogwai. He's a tabby.. I hope he doesn't turn out to be evil like Jason's cat.... Never in my life did I imagine that I of all people, would own two cats! I always considered myself a "dog person" before I met Face... and now that I have Face.. and seen the wonderful side of cat life... I really can't say that I'm one or the other. I love BOTH! Cats and dogs are both wonderful! =)

Equine Emergency Team

Hiya. So I've signed up for a ton of clubs and activities as a freshmen in vet school.. One of these duties I have signed up for is the 'equine emergency team'. You are put on a monthly schedule where you are on call about 1-2x/month where you can be paged anytime from 5pm to 5am... I've done the equine rotation once before and was not called in. I'm also on the 'small animal icu' team, which is the same idea, but with small animal.. I was on that last week and did not get called in... in actuality, most people don't get called in I think. Depending on what is going on of course... so tonight is another night that I'm on equine emergency duty... and guess what. I GOT A PAGE.. I talked to someone at the front desk over the phone and they told me to expect a page between 3 and 4 am for a colic. So I'm excited to go.. also sad at the fact that I am loosing sleep. MEH! I think I'm more excited though.. I haven't worked with horses, so I pretty much have no experience with equine.. Hopefully this will help.. =/ Although it can probably only help so much. I mean.. I worked 2 years in a small animal hospital and even through that, I feel like it took me so long to learn what I know now. Of course, I was a kennel person for like 5 months, so that kind of nicked into the time.. but I mean, learning how to draw blood, place catheters.. being careful with medications and learning what they are for.. what you learn to expect in an emergency situation with patients, doctors and owners... When I think about everything that I learned in that amount of time.. and realizing that I could always learn more.. it's kind of scary when you think about how little everyone really knows...

Anyway.. my original plan was to wake up at 6 am to shower and get ready for school... now that my plans have been altered.. I took a shower now b/c I figure I'm not going to wake up at 6 am to take a shower when I have to wake up possibly at 3 am and go straight to KSU's hospital... plus if I do that and if they have to go into surgery.. then I really won't have time to come home and shower. If in the case I get out early (meaning no sx)... then I may come home and just go back to sleep... I donno. If I get out later than 1 hour, I'll probably just stay at school and study until class starts (or fall asleep at my desk with drool coming out of my mouth).

Anyway... my hair is dry now... so sleep for a couple hours at least! =)

The Plan

Heyyy... vet school is busy busy busy... [sigh]~! Days like this, I wish that I could do nothing. I can't just lounge around anymore. Gotta be a big girl and do good! When you've got a test every Friday, you really have to keep yourself on a constant roll.. I feel so behind all the time, but I know that this is how it's going to be. When you're in vet school (or any crazy graduate program for that matter), you really have to realize that you can't ever really be caught up in school. It's the boat theory.. where you're constantly swimming and swimming to catch up to the boat and get in it. But no matter how hard you swim, no matter how hard you try.. you'll never really get in the boat. Sometimes you might be really close, so close you might think you'll get in.. and other times you'll be far away.. but no matter what, you cannot be in the boat. And that's just the way things will be when you are learning such a tremendous amount of material. I'm still trying to accept the fact that this is true. Hopefully I CAN accept it, because I don't want to freak about upcoming tests all the time. You can only do what you can right?

Mike thinks that I'm going to burn out at some point from studying and cramming all the time.. It's not that he thinks that I can't do it.. he thinks that I should take more breaks and stuff.. But I think I'm doing an okay job at balancing school and fun. Last night I went to Kite's for a classmate's birthday. A lot of our class was there so it was fun! Didn't get completely wasted like I did last weekend... =P And tonight we're going to Brittnay's (another classmate) house for Chinese food night. I'm excited about that because I LOVE Chinese food. I mean.. I basically love all food. Which is another problem! I'm going to Jason and Stephanie's wedding next summer and it's going to be in HAWAII!!! My goal is to loose 15 pounds before next summer. With the way school is going... [sigh]. I have no idea how I'm going to do that. I think I might just have to force myself... no matter how much I have to study, to just go to the rec and work out for an hour at least a few times a week. With that said.. I COMMIT MYSELF TO 3.2.1. THIS WEDNESDAY!!! I went the first few weeks because school wasn't that bad at first... but now that I'm really in the swing of things.. I keep saying I'll go, but pass it up to study. There's no way I can loose 15 pounds at that rate. I'm going to start bringing workout clothes to school with me and just go after class and come back to study. I just have to be FOCUSED.

All righty.. back to studying microanatomy before Chinese food... =)

Hmm..

Do you think it's a bad thing that I'm in vet school and don't like physiology? Edit that: hate physiology...

Pre B-Day Celebration

Hello! It's been a while.. sorry! School is keeping me very very busy right now. Having a test every Friday is driving me a little insane. This past Friday we had one that had everybody in crazy study mode. It was a lab test on the all the muscles, veins, arteries and nerves of the dog. AND they threw in the lecture test as well on the same day! It might not sound like a lot... but if I had to list off every muscle, art/vein and nerve that I had to know... it would be more than 200 words!! Maybe even more than that! Craziness. Absolute craziness! I feel like I'm averaging out to be a 'B' student in vet school and it's kind of making me sad. It's really weird because pretty much everyone (almost) is really smart. In undergrad, half of my class was retarded! Well, not retarded... either they didn't get it, or they didn't try enough to understand. Now that I'm in grad school, everyone does well for the most part. There are no curves either.. and in a way it makes me feel kinda dumb! I don't really believe that's true. I think it's just because we're all good students and not many people are doing badly. Which is good really... I like my class for the most part. There are definitely some people I'd rather avoid, but not very many. Actually it's just this one person that I want to steer clear from. =P

After the test, Val and I went to the mall and did some serious post-test shopping!! I actually met Val before starting vet school because we had our interview on the same day. I remember talking to her while waiting for our interviews and waiting for our flights back home. She's kind of a quiet person. Super nice and very silly sometimes! =) Her birthday was actually last Wednesday and mine is coming up tomorrow, so we celebrated our birthdays together by going out to Kite's Friday night! We got totally wasted! It was an awesome night, but a not so awesome next morning. Hangovers kill mee.... I had one of the worst hangovers yesterday morning! No need to go into the gory details, but I'll tell ya. It was bad!





I don't even remember taking some of those drinks.... =/ OY!

All righty.. well since I didn't study at all yesterday due to my hangover.. must study like crazy today and tomorrow! I'm so glad we don't classes this Monday! KSU must have known it was my birthday.. haha. ;)