The Veterinarian's Log

I feel all terribly on top of things today. Think I did well on my SA/Equine Med midterm, got the garden replanted (and took pics), started on laundry, am now in the process of putting my room back to rights and getting the dishes done. Who knows, I might even vacuum and clean bathrooms. It's just that sort of day.

Oh, saw the first new Torchwood of the second season!
( Kiss Kiss Bang Bang )

Morning, this be it. I find this tragically unfair - why did morning have to come so early today? But I'm going in extra early so I can walk Fozzie and then change into my scrubs to do AM exam of Nala and get this surgery train started.

Oh, it's gonna be a coffee day.

Moment of glee for today:

My old (smaller) scrub bottoms fit.

\o/

*wanders off to go deal with my new surgical patient and Frank. Who are not the same creature. Thankfully.*

So, one of my classes is going to try to kill me with study questions that have to be turned in and may be graded.

But it doesn't have a final.

I'm still deciding if this is a good thing or a bad thing.

Also, it is cold. And raining. And because I was working on the study questions, I haven't taken Fozzie out yet.

>.>

Just as well I don't have to cook tonight. LA.

This just discovered: The little mood kitties have the same expression for 'cold' as they do for 'hot'. O.o

So, other than my rather non-spectacular performance in Neurology?

All B's and two A's (Orthopedics, a total sleeper class, and Exotics Med, where I seriously kicked butt).

Also, the official Neurology grade is not in. Am hoping, probably futilely considering my inability to remember all things neurological (freshman neurology was an agonizing ordeal of hate), that I actually did better than what they said, because... um. I would have had to have gotten the exact same grade on both tests. Which. You know. Studying hard for a week and a half on the dang thing, I should get a better grade on the second, yes?

It's probably still a C-. But.

I can hope, right?

Also?

B's and A's. :D!!!

Why yes, I am moodswingy with grades. I like doing well. It is a thing.

Lalala went back in my transcript to see what, exactly, I got in freshman neurology (C), and saw that that was the v.v.v. bad quarter that had Cardio in (WAUGH). That was... not a fun three months. Nope.

Also, we went to Whole Foods today, the ginormous one that is roughly the size of a Costco (just more organic), and there was ooooohing and aaaaawing over tiny one-person tea kettles, and the tiny little saltcellers with their tiny little spoons. There was also drooling over the fancy chocolates, laughing at the ones named 'Tetons', and consumption of chocolate hazelnut ice cream (YUM).
I also finished the first of twelve Christmas ornaments (Twelve Days of Christmas theme) I've been working on - I'll need to pick up the pace if I'm going to get them done by Christmas. Probably won't happen. But it is awful cute.
We also iced the gingerbread cookies the other day - not the most professional job in the world, but it was fun.
Also, why do they not sell pasties and samosas with meat in here? Why? *misses them*


Last note: I would not think it a good idea for a OB:GYN to have a book titled "What to Expect When Your Wife is Expanding" on your waiting-room table. Just sayin'.

Two more tests.

Two more tests today.

I can do this.

Two more tests and cramps.

...

Dear Universe: You're not playing fair. You're not even playing a good dirty. Grrr.

I can still do this.

*wanders off to arm self with coffee*

EDIT: Finally got my Exotics Med Final back: A :D
Dunno if this leaves me with a high B+ or a low A-, but I'll take it.
*goes back to preparing a Chuck Norris-type welcome for SA Med Final and Equine Med Final*

Also, I find irony that I get the highest grade in the section of the class dealing with the animals I want to treat the least (Reptiles and Fish vs. the Small!Fuzzy!Animals! sections of class)

EDIT2: PLIT (the AVMA's major insurance program) leaves us little fliers now and again to warn us about the liability claims people make in the Real World. Some of them are reasonable, and I feel kinda sorry for this one poor schmuck who, while he did screw up, thought his boss was covering his insurance and... um. wasn't.

But the winner: The gal who sued her vet after she (the owner) failed to follow the vet's instructions for diabetes. *FACE. PALM* Can the vet sue back for having to deal with the stupid?

My Album: a Meme
1. Go to Wikipedia: Random Article.
2. Click random article again; that is your album name.
3. Click random article 15 more times; those are the tracks on your album.

Album name: Mills v. The Queen
Tracks:
1. Mutate
2. Vinckeia
3. Olympic Medalists (Tug of War) (Tug of war was a sport???)
4. Kollaps
5. Shinawatra
6. Lupata Gorge
7. Ugly Phil
8. Baracoa
9. Eleutherodactylus jamaicensis (I want this to be a song title just to hear it announced on radio)
10. Jonesboro High School (Georgia)
11. Latimer, Kansas
12. The Hard Corps (... this one's just begging for an 'explict lyrics' warning on it)
13. Julien Loy
14. M6 Fargo
15. Slovak-Hungarian War

In other news: one final down! *cheers*

ETA: Final grade for Opthomology: B! \o/

I am Done With Classes This Quarter. Officially.

I'm just not done with finals. But I have all my notes printed out (unless some prof uploads something right under the wire), and I have a whole weekend, and...

Um...

...

I have tea?

And a dog.

And three cats.

Thankfully not all in the same spot.

Lalala only five more days to go.

1) Frank is at it again. Trapper is surgeon on Wednesday, and bounced over to the section where Frank and I sit to say she's going to examine said dog at a certain time tomorrow.
Frank? Gave her non-answer which history has proven means: "No chance in hell".

Nice, Frank.

2) Walked to school again, after doing so yesterday. Am contemplating the hattrick, but I'm not sure when I'd be getting out of lab tomorrow, and walking in the dark isn't much fun. That said, that particular lab tends to get out eons early, so.

3) Weight loss for the month of November: 1lb.

*SIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGH*

The worst thing is I know what I'm doing wrong, I just... keep doing it.

4)The ROTC boys next door have us whupped on Christmas decorations. They've got a wreath up, they've got a lit and decorated Christmas tree... I've been told in years past they've even put out singing Christmas lights. I'd better get cracking.

5) Mucho studying today. *eyes calendar and tells self it is only 9 more days*

6) Re: Amazing Race - Go little gothbunnies go! They bring me much glee.

7) Dear Hershey/Nestle/whatever company you are now:
NO MINT CHOCOLATE KISSES?!? This is truly not keeping with the spirit of Christmas here, people. I'm sorry, but those mint truffle thingys Just Don't Cut It. I need my mint chocolaty goodness! Don't make me go buy the M&Ms, they aren't as good.
(If there are no mint M&Ms I'm gonna cry. Right there in the store.)
No love,
Me

Both tests over.

One (the SA quiz) I'm pretty certain I got a perfect score on. \o/

The other?

Pretty sure I passed?

Dear Professor who wrote the suture questions:
Was it really clinically relevant to ask the connect the dots question about scientific and commercial names for various types of synthetic suture, when you didn't emphasize that at all in lecture, and kept going on about how we needed to focus on 'broad concepts'?

Glad you only had a short section,
No love,
Me.