Tuesday, August 08, 2006

 

Tomorrow's my birthday!

So as a present to myself, I am allowing myself to blog.

Yes, it's been months since I last posted something, and it's not for lack of material, but lack of time. You see, there are many things I should be doing right now:
1) Studying for boards
2) Reading case reports on small animal internal medicine
3) Reading up on wildlife diseases for my externship next month
4) Washing my piles of dirty laundry
5) writing the bio article on Dr. Thomas Graves for the upcoming college newsletter (which is what I'll be doing right after this and before my 10:30-8:30 ER shift starts)
6) Unpacking an organizing the unknown boxes of files and miscellany (I've recently moved in with a colleague to save on rent since I will only be in ttown four months out of the year)

. . . but instead I'm blogging. Happy birthday to me!

I'm on small andimal internal medicine/emergency/ICU service for the next four weeks, which means I only get one day off untils I head to Georgia next month.

Anyway, what I've been up to:

Since Small Animal Surgery, I've also been on Theriogeniology/Ambulatory service, which was a ton of fun when we got to take trip to farms to artificially inseminate cows, but it was a little slow the two weeks I was on.
I just completed a month of equine medicine and surgery, and it was a ton of fun.


I've also come to realize each species has a cutest part:

Dogs and cows: noses
Cats: their itty bitty toe pads
Horses and: lips, chin whiskers
Sheep: ears
pigs and camlids: eyes, eye lashes

This summer I also helped a couple classmates pick out their very first guitars and started a vet school guitar club--which I think may be the only current vet school club that has absolutely nothing to do with veterinary medicine. It's kind of nice to see some of my colleagues in this different context.

Anyway, I have a day off Friday, which will be the only day off I'll have this month (I'll celebrate my birthday--yay!), then I'm driving down to the University of Georgia the day before Labor Day. I'm pretty excited--when I got an email from the SCWDS coordinator that said "Be sure to bring field clothes: boots, old long pants, long-sleeved shirts and rain gear," I got really psyched. He also sent me the link to great online online wildlife disease textbook. I can't wait!

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