the DVM life - Doctor of Veterinary Medicine

Well, my internet has been broked for about a week+ so you've missed out on the oh so exciting details of my life. Ha.

Monday was an embryology exam. Embryology is a pain in the ass. Like prison style - not a good thing.

I had a cell phys exam Tuesday, which I hope went passably well. I think I did fine, but we shall see. I really liked the prof we had and his teaching style sunk into my brain well. Our upcoming prof for cell phys has a wicked fun sense of humor and I hope I enjoy her style. She seems to have a bit more complicated set of slides...

Anatomy exam. It was a hellish week. I was feeling really good but the test was way more on neural stuff than I had anticipated. Way more. Which is very unfortunate, since I rocked an the arteries. I'm so disappointed they didn't test more on that. I had so much more I wanted to show them that I knew!!

Many people weren't jazzed about that exam. I really, really, really hope I passed. Seeing how I passed the other one (with only colors, certainly not flying colors) I can't really afford to bomb one. Friday should be an exciting day, hopefully in a good way.

And then Histology is coming up. Agh. So right now, if you were to ask me about my feelings on vet school I would say: vet school sucks. I hate studying, I hate feeling stupid, I hate feeling inadequate even after hours of studying, and I hate thinking that I might feel this way for 4 years. I hate the lack of hands on activities, and I hate not working with real, live animals. Damn it.

On the bright side, my weekend kicked ass. It was Halloween but I didn't really celebrate it (did the vet school party the week before). My best friend visited and it was absolutely wonderful. I hadn't seen him since I left in August -- so around a full 2 months. Previous to that we'd only ever been apart 2 weeks max, so as you can guess I missed him like crazy.

He flew in early Friday afternoon and after I got un-stinky (from anatomy lab exam) we went out to dinner at the nice place in town. I actually got to dress up, which I hadn't done in forever. I had raspberry lemonade and tasty southwest chicken wraps. We spent the evening talking, and we fell asleep early since we were both exhausted.

The next day we went to the next town over. My toothbrush, the electric kind, had broken and I wanted to get a new one from Costco. First we stopped by the farmers market and Co-op. We got some *delicious* chocolate cake. My friend loved it, and I was glad since he enjoys so few foods. Then onto Costco, snagging a new brush and some mass-quantity foods. We parked it at the Applebys there and he watched a football game. Then we made our way back, and got home to find out that my old toothbrush wasn't working only because my breaker threw a fuse. Ha. So then we decided to take a nap before heading out to dinner.

Dinner was at the new pizza joint in town. It was not good. At least what I had. He said the pizza was nice. The lasagna and shake were terrible. He had a great time catching another football game - which I even found a little interesting too. Afterwards we walked the shopping center and returned home to snooze early.

Daylight savings time was awesome! We woke early the next day and took the time to chat between falling asleep again. It was so good to talk to him. There's no one I'm familiar with out here -- and I have 8 years of history with him. It was so good to be with someone I've missed so much. For breakfast we went back for more chocolate cake and orange juice. No, I'm not 200 lbs.

We made our way back to Costco to return the toothbrush, on account of my being stupid. But at least I got to pick up some extra goods - frozen chicken breasts, artichoke hearts, frozen egg rolls.

By this time he was having some allergies from only the lord knows what. So I figured some fresh air would do him good. We went hiking at a nice place I discovered. It's a 3.5 mile loop with great views and it's a good climb but not too steep. His allergies cleared and he felt a lot better. We headed home for a shower and packing, after a little nap.

I won't see him for another 4 months, so I spent a little time crying today as I took him to the airport. I do hate crying -- it's not pretty on me. I get all red-eyed and my nose runs like crazy. I tried hard not to cry but I did anyways and he was very kind about it.

All in all, terrible week but the weekend more than made up for it. He encouraged me to get more hard-ass about school, as much as I'm disliking it at the moment. Plans are in the works for a trip together during spring break - perhaps Disneyland and southern California. I miss him already but we did have a great time together.

6 weeks left of semester 1. My goal: to really kick some ass. 6 weeks isn't that long, I can do it.