This week I learned that I'm incredibly boring. A friend from undergrad messaged me, and I had nothing interesting to say to him--and he was just commenting on comics he was reading! I guess that means vet school is officially eating my life...although I did manage to watch 4 episodes of Supernatural yesterday. I went over my therio lectures, too, don't worry!
I still haven't got my laptop back yet, either. I dropped it off at a place in town on Tuesday since the IT people at school couldn't do anything, and they still haven't called me back about it. I hope it's not too expensive, and that I can get it back soon!
So what have I done lately? Not much. Took yet another exam and finished off our cell bio/histo course with an A, so that's good. We're starting histology and developmental biology in its place next week, but today we also started our intro to diagnostic imaging class, which I think I'm going to like a lot. It's not a big course, largely just one hour a week. But I'm really interested in diagnostic imaging, and the course coordinator is awesome. She's also in charge of diagnostic imaging club, and she's really cool. Maybe I should email her about research this summer. I'm also feeding an owl again this week--Professor this time. He's a lot more chill than BAMF, and he lets me fist him--multiple times even, although by the third time yesterday he really didn't want to put his second foot up on my hand.
I did also go to a couple of lunch talks. One was by VCA and was all about how their company is great and you should do an internship, which I'm not sure I trust fully. The last thing I read is that doing an internship means you earn less over your career unless you do a residency and specialize, but the speaker claimed that people who do internships get significantly higher salaries. With an example from her practices, of course. The other talk was with critical care club, about colloidal fluids.
I guess I should write about last weekend, too. Dr. DeBowes was awesome and really inspirational, although I liked the first day much better than the second. If I get a chance to do the VLE program (leadership workshop/retreat sort of thing he created), I'm definitely going to go for it. We walked around with a blindfolded partner and talked about a bunch of topics. I can't even remember them all now...I should have written it up over the weekend, really, but I didn't have a lot of time then and I spent most of it studying. There was a lot of Meyers-Briggs Type stuff on the second day, which I was kind of over. Then on Sunday I volunteered at my school's Spay Day. I was on surgery prep: doing subcutaneous injections of vaccines and antibiotics and clipping and scrubbing surgical sites on anaesthetized cats. I'd never given an injection before, but I gave a ton of them on Sunday! I also learned that penicillin can be really difficult to inject when it's been sitting for a while (we pulled up a bunch in the morning to use throughout the day). I'll probably try to work somewhere different next time, just to change it up.
Luckily, this weekend won't be nearly so busy. I have a test next week, as always (physio again), but I don't have so much school stuff. I'm going to try and get a couple of the books Dr. DeBowes recommended from the library since this will probably be my best chance for a while to read them. Also, my family's coming up to visit tomorrow. We're going to go see Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2; I think my little brother is really looking forward to it.
You are not boring.
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