We'll be leaving 1 week from today on our summer journeys to a number of states including Minnesota and Massachusetts.
Plans and preparations are (slowly) coming together. I spent all of Saturday running errands in Windsor and Fort Collins. Most of the laundry is done. Today I went through all my school stuff (notes, books, CDs, etc.) and sorted out everything I need to bring to the Berkshires to study for the capstone exam.
Yesterday I took a day off to go to the Renaissance Festival. I had a great time but forgot to bring sunscreen, so I now look and feel ridiculous with my bright red face and stylish T-shirt tan (a.k.a. burn).
Today I'll be running by the copy shop to copy the monkeys' rabies certificates, to Grease Monkey to check and make sure all my transmission fluid is still where it's supposed to be after it was changed on Saturday, and to the library to return some books. Gotta make a stop by the grocery store on my way home from giving another tour of the VTH.
This is my last week working for the Giant Veterinary Corporation in Northglenn. I'll work Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday, then finish packing on Sunday before we leave on Monday. It's been a really good working experience but I'm glad it's almost over. The long shifts and commute have been really tiring.
So that's all the news for now!
Monday, June 22, 2009
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Sunday, June 14, 2009
Thwarted by the weather (again)
As today was my day off from work, CLH and I scheduled a number of events in Denver for the day.
First, we drove down for the 10:45 service at a Lutheran church in a suburb of Denver, which has an opening for a part-time Director of Music for the fall. The church is currently without a pastor for the summer, and the substitute pastor was.... not great. And through no choosing of my own, I ended up with wine instead of grape juice for communion. Yuck. Other than that, the church was nice.
Next, we headed over to a nearby Target to do some quick shopping. After that, we went to Panda Express for lunch. Luckily, we happened to get there about 5 minutes before a huge group of people from a nearby church that was having a fundraiser at the restaurant.
The first inkling that the remainder of our day might not go as planned came at 1 pm, when we felt a few sprinkles as we walked to our car in the Panda Express parking lot. It was only a very light rain, and the sun was still shining, so we were optimistic.
The weather was looking pretty good when we arrived at nearby Water World, reportedly "America's Biggest" and "America's Best" water park. (Note: I thought that Noah's Ark was the biggest water park in America, but according to their website they are actually "America's Largest" water park, and only "one" of America's best water parks. Good to know.)
At 2 pm, we bought tickets for a half-day admission at Water World from 2-6 pm.
By 2:15, we were changed out of church clothes and into swimsuits, properly lathered with SPF 45 sunscreen, and floating down the Lazy River, allowing our lunch to finish digesting.
By 2:20 pm, it was pouring rain, lightning was flashing in the distance, everybody was kicked off all of the rides, and we went to huddle with the other miserable water park visitors in one of the shelters.
By 2:30 pm, there was a significant layer of pea-sized hail on the ground.
By 3:15 pm, the rain had not stopped, although the hail had come and gone several times. An announcement came over the loudspeaker that the park was closing for the rest of the afternoon and we could pick up rain check tickets at the gate.
By 3:30 pm, we were back in the car heading home, still in our swimsuits and towels since our clothes had gotten wet in the locker during the rain.
But to look at things with a positive spin: We have tickets to go back to Water World any day that we want, before September. (Albeit, we'll be out of the state from June 29 to August 20 or so.) We're home much earlier than anticipated, allowing time to finish the laundry and get some other miscellaneous stuff done. We got what we needed from Target and we had an enjoyable lunch!
In other news, I am 3/7 of the way through my "work marathon." I worked this past Friday and Saturday from 9:00-7:30 (yesterday being the first Saturday that the hospital was open until 7 pm, although I stayed until 8 pm because things were totally hectic). Today, Sunday, was my day off. This next week, I'll be working Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, from 9:00-7:30 each day. You can do the math and figure out how many hours of working that is in a 7 day period. It's a wee bit depressing.
The work marathon is due to an extremely unfortunate misunderstanding in the work schedule. At the end of May, I asked the scheduler if it would be possible for me to have three consecutive days off so that CLH and I could go camping, and told her it would need to be during the first two weeks of June and if she couldn't arrange it for those weeks, then don't worry about it. Well, I didn't get the three days during those two weeks, and that was fine. But then this past week they put up the schedule for next week and the week after (my last two weeks of work). Apparently the scheduler, with good intentions, had remembered that I wanted several days off in a row, but had forgotten that they needed to be during the first two weeks of the month. Thus, I am working Mon/Tues/Wed/Thurs this week, then have Fri/Sat/Sun/Mon off, then am working 4 days between Tuesday and Saturday the following week. Okay, that's fine, except that the Fri/Sat/Sun/Mon I have as a four-day weekend are four of the five days when CLH will be in Arizona. Sigh. But I've got plenty of things to get done in that time, and I've no doubt I'll be able to stay busy with all my errands and to-do list that has to be finished before we leave for Massachusetts.
So anyway, wish me luck with the upcoming 4 day / 42 hour work marathon extravaganza, and don't be surprised if I seem to disappear from the face of the earth until at least Friday or Saturday! (I've already made my plans for Friday: sleeping until 2 pm, then driving to FoCo to give a tour of the teaching hospital at 4 pm, then coming home for a delicious send-off dinner, prepared by CLH, then driving CLH to the Denver airport for his flight leaving at 9:30 pm. That is the sum total of my ambitions for Friday.)
First, we drove down for the 10:45 service at a Lutheran church in a suburb of Denver, which has an opening for a part-time Director of Music for the fall. The church is currently without a pastor for the summer, and the substitute pastor was.... not great. And through no choosing of my own, I ended up with wine instead of grape juice for communion. Yuck. Other than that, the church was nice.
Next, we headed over to a nearby Target to do some quick shopping. After that, we went to Panda Express for lunch. Luckily, we happened to get there about 5 minutes before a huge group of people from a nearby church that was having a fundraiser at the restaurant.
The first inkling that the remainder of our day might not go as planned came at 1 pm, when we felt a few sprinkles as we walked to our car in the Panda Express parking lot. It was only a very light rain, and the sun was still shining, so we were optimistic.
The weather was looking pretty good when we arrived at nearby Water World, reportedly "America's Biggest" and "America's Best" water park. (Note: I thought that Noah's Ark was the biggest water park in America, but according to their website they are actually "America's Largest" water park, and only "one" of America's best water parks. Good to know.)
At 2 pm, we bought tickets for a half-day admission at Water World from 2-6 pm.
By 2:15, we were changed out of church clothes and into swimsuits, properly lathered with SPF 45 sunscreen, and floating down the Lazy River, allowing our lunch to finish digesting.
By 2:20 pm, it was pouring rain, lightning was flashing in the distance, everybody was kicked off all of the rides, and we went to huddle with the other miserable water park visitors in one of the shelters.
By 2:30 pm, there was a significant layer of pea-sized hail on the ground.
By 3:15 pm, the rain had not stopped, although the hail had come and gone several times. An announcement came over the loudspeaker that the park was closing for the rest of the afternoon and we could pick up rain check tickets at the gate.
By 3:30 pm, we were back in the car heading home, still in our swimsuits and towels since our clothes had gotten wet in the locker during the rain.
But to look at things with a positive spin: We have tickets to go back to Water World any day that we want, before September. (Albeit, we'll be out of the state from June 29 to August 20 or so.) We're home much earlier than anticipated, allowing time to finish the laundry and get some other miscellaneous stuff done. We got what we needed from Target and we had an enjoyable lunch!
In other news, I am 3/7 of the way through my "work marathon." I worked this past Friday and Saturday from 9:00-7:30 (yesterday being the first Saturday that the hospital was open until 7 pm, although I stayed until 8 pm because things were totally hectic). Today, Sunday, was my day off. This next week, I'll be working Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, from 9:00-7:30 each day. You can do the math and figure out how many hours of working that is in a 7 day period. It's a wee bit depressing.
The work marathon is due to an extremely unfortunate misunderstanding in the work schedule. At the end of May, I asked the scheduler if it would be possible for me to have three consecutive days off so that CLH and I could go camping, and told her it would need to be during the first two weeks of June and if she couldn't arrange it for those weeks, then don't worry about it. Well, I didn't get the three days during those two weeks, and that was fine. But then this past week they put up the schedule for next week and the week after (my last two weeks of work). Apparently the scheduler, with good intentions, had remembered that I wanted several days off in a row, but had forgotten that they needed to be during the first two weeks of the month. Thus, I am working Mon/Tues/Wed/Thurs this week, then have Fri/Sat/Sun/Mon off, then am working 4 days between Tuesday and Saturday the following week. Okay, that's fine, except that the Fri/Sat/Sun/Mon I have as a four-day weekend are four of the five days when CLH will be in Arizona. Sigh. But I've got plenty of things to get done in that time, and I've no doubt I'll be able to stay busy with all my errands and to-do list that has to be finished before we leave for Massachusetts.
So anyway, wish me luck with the upcoming 4 day / 42 hour work marathon extravaganza, and don't be surprised if I seem to disappear from the face of the earth until at least Friday or Saturday! (I've already made my plans for Friday: sleeping until 2 pm, then driving to FoCo to give a tour of the teaching hospital at 4 pm, then coming home for a delicious send-off dinner, prepared by CLH, then driving CLH to the Denver airport for his flight leaving at 9:30 pm. That is the sum total of my ambitions for Friday.)
Thursday, June 11, 2009
Emails galore!
You'd think that with the academic year winding down and it being summer now, my email inbox wouldn't be quite so full. Well, you'd be wrong!
The vet school has a listserv for each class, so that if you want to email everybody in my class, you just email it to PVM2012@whateveritis. That's cool because it makes things way more efficient than trying to keep track of everyone's email address. However, it also means that you get a whole lot of emails that don't necessarily apply to you and your interests. And it's not like you can just unsubscribe to the listserv to stop getting all those useless emails, because some of them are really important and you have to read them.
Between the start of school in mid-August '08 and the end of spring semester on 5/15/09, I got 2305 emails through the listserv. Let's call that 9 months x 30 days = 270 days. That's about an average of 8.5 emails per day, just through the listserv. Not included are emails from professors, the dean, the graduate student office, and clubs/organizations like pet hospice that maintain their own email lists and don't send things out through the listserv.
At this point, the listserv emails are only up to 2393, in the 27 days since the end of the semester. So that's only 88 listserv emails in 27 days, or about 3.25 emails per day. Thank goodness that has dropped off so significantly!
Yet, I still come home from work at 7:30 or 8:30 pm and find myself with 25 to 40 emails waiting for me. Where are they all coming from??? Yes, usually 5 or 10 are junk mail or email from websites that I signed up for but don't always read. With CLH now home from work for the summer, a significant number of the remaining emails come from him. But I cannot figure out how I am still getting so many emails, with all the school stuff having died down!
So, admittedly, part of it is probably that I am a totally compulsive email checker, meaning that when I was in class all day, I'd usually check my email before my first class started, several times during lunch, and before I left for the day, not to mention as often as possible during our 10 minute breaks between classes. So I probably got more emails every day than I'm getting now, but these days I get all of the day's emails at once.
Anyhow, let me assure you that I do enjoy hearing from all of you, and I'm not trying to say, "Stop sending me emails!!!" Just please be patient if it takes me a few days to get back to you. :-)
The vet school has a listserv for each class, so that if you want to email everybody in my class, you just email it to PVM2012@whateveritis. That's cool because it makes things way more efficient than trying to keep track of everyone's email address. However, it also means that you get a whole lot of emails that don't necessarily apply to you and your interests. And it's not like you can just unsubscribe to the listserv to stop getting all those useless emails, because some of them are really important and you have to read them.
Between the start of school in mid-August '08 and the end of spring semester on 5/15/09, I got 2305 emails through the listserv. Let's call that 9 months x 30 days = 270 days. That's about an average of 8.5 emails per day, just through the listserv. Not included are emails from professors, the dean, the graduate student office, and clubs/organizations like pet hospice that maintain their own email lists and don't send things out through the listserv.
At this point, the listserv emails are only up to 2393, in the 27 days since the end of the semester. So that's only 88 listserv emails in 27 days, or about 3.25 emails per day. Thank goodness that has dropped off so significantly!
Yet, I still come home from work at 7:30 or 8:30 pm and find myself with 25 to 40 emails waiting for me. Where are they all coming from??? Yes, usually 5 or 10 are junk mail or email from websites that I signed up for but don't always read. With CLH now home from work for the summer, a significant number of the remaining emails come from him. But I cannot figure out how I am still getting so many emails, with all the school stuff having died down!
So, admittedly, part of it is probably that I am a totally compulsive email checker, meaning that when I was in class all day, I'd usually check my email before my first class started, several times during lunch, and before I left for the day, not to mention as often as possible during our 10 minute breaks between classes. So I probably got more emails every day than I'm getting now, but these days I get all of the day's emails at once.
Anyhow, let me assure you that I do enjoy hearing from all of you, and I'm not trying to say, "Stop sending me emails!!!" Just please be patient if it takes me a few days to get back to you. :-)
First-year large animal stuff
By special request from Aunt Nancy, here are some of the things we did involving large animals during freshman year:
- The first two years of the vet school curriculum are actually divided 50/50 between large animal and small animal medicine. So that means that in anatomy, physiology, parasitology, virology, radiology, etc. we learned a lot of general information that applies to all species, and then we learned specific information for both dogs/cats vs. horses/cows/sheep/goats/pigs/etc.
- In anatomy we dissected equine front and rear limbs. Obviously it would be a little difficult for each group to dissect a whole horse. :-) They had an embalmed horse, cow, and sheep that hung from hooks on the ceiling and could be moved in and out of the freezer so we could study their specific features. The anatomy professors dissected the "hanging horse" and the others so that we could see their insides.
- When we learned about the anatomy of the four bovine stomach chambers, they brought "Sassy," the fistulated cow, over from the VTH to the main campus. We all got a chance to put on the shoulder-length gloves and stick our arms as far as they could go into Sassy's side to try to palpate the different areas of the stomachs. That was a very weird experience.
- In neurobiology this spring, we learned in detail how to do a neurological exam on any species of animal, then practiced - first on dogs that our classmates brought into the cubes for the day, and then on two horses owned by one of the professors. She brought the horses over to main campus for the day and we stood out on the lawn between some of the classroom buildings, doing neuro exams on the horses. We got some strange looks from non-vet students.
- We took a 2-credit course this spring called Food Animal Production & Food Safety, designed to introduce students to the basics of production methods for different species of food animals - dairy, beef, veal, hog, layers, broilers, etc. Each week focused on a different production method. At the end we were supposed to take 2 field trips to give us the opportunity to actually visit 2 different types of production facilities. One of the field trips coincided with our snow day, so we only got to go to one facility. I went to a sheep farm that mainly raised sheep for fiber but also sold some for meat. It was really neat and the people who ran the farm were totally cool. If we'd had a second chance to go somewhere else, I would have liked to visit a dairy.
- The vet school offers a number of other extracurricular opportunities to participate in large animal stuff, which I didn't take advantage of due to my already busy class schedule plus the 6 or 7 other clubs I'm in. They have a Large Animal Emergency Team for which you sign up to be on call for an overnight or weekend shift. If they have a large animal emergency come into the hospital (e.g. a horse colic), they call you and you come help out with whatever you can do. There is also a foal care team that students can join. They let you know when they have a premature foal or a sick foal or an ICU foal in the hospital, and you go sit with it for a few hours to keep it company, make sure it's doing okay, help it eat, etc. These are mostly foals that need somebody with them around the clock. One of my good friends did both the LAET and the foal care team and she really enjoyed them. They both sound fun except for the part where they take place mostly during the middle of the night. :-)
Saturday, June 6, 2009
Summer "break," continued
As summer "break" continues, it's still not all that much of a break. I've just finished my third week of work at the Giant Veterinary Corporation clinic in Northglenn. That means I'm halfway done with my stint there! Following, please find a semi-organized listing of some of my random thoughts about this job.
I'm working 36-40 hours a week, and as mentioned in a previous post, I'm quickly recalling what it's like to spend that much time in a vet clinic. This particular clinic has about 3 or 4 stools that are shared by anywhere from 4 to 8 employees working at once, and there is nowhere else to sit down. So, I'm spending plenty of time on my feet.
My first, third, and fourth weeks of work have been/will be made up of 4 days, with about a 9.5-10 hour shift each day. My second week was 5 days, 7.5-8 hours each day. I am pretty sure I prefer the schedule of fewer/longer days. Once I've done the morning commute and am in the swing of things at the clinic, a couple extra hours of work in one day is hardly noticeable.
I'm coming home physically exhausted almost every day. Being a vet is mentally draining and requires a fair amount of physical activity. However, I'm pretty much acting as a vet tech at this point, which requires less mental awareness but a great deal more physical activity. My feet and legs hurt, and I'm exercising back and shoulder muscles that I'm pretty sure have not been asked to do anything for at least a year, since I was last working as a tech. The bad news is that I've pretty much spent the last 9-10 months sitting on my butt in the classroom. The good news is that I can now already tighten my belt buckle by one notch!
The other thing I forgot about working as a tech is how beat up you get. We're talking bruises, scrapes, scratches, punctures, bites, etc. etc. etc. I notice the bites and scratches when they occur, but usually don't find the bruises until I get home and change clothes. Thankfully everything heals pretty quickly, and I now have the added peace of mind from knowing that I'm fully vaccinated against rabies.
I am apparently not quite as tough as I used to be. For the last 3 semesters of my undergrad, I worked as a tech during the school year, anywhere between 25 and 40 hours a week. For 18 months, I worked at the clinic every Saturday that I didn't have another commitment. Sundays were sort of a day off, after we got home at 1 or 2 pm post-church and lunch. But now, having 2 days off in a row seems like the best thing ever to me. No idea how I routinely went weeks and weeks at a time with only partial Sundays as my time off. Working Saturdays is fine with me now because CLH is home from work every day anyways. The only bummer is that I don't get to listen to "Car Talk" and "Wait Wait Don't Tell Me" so I have to go listen to them later on the NPR website.
Despite finding plenty to complain about re: work, I have to say it is totally awesome getting a regular paycheck again ($400 for the first week). The money is not spectacular and definitely wouldn't be enough to live on, but hey, I'll take what I can get. As an added plus, I found out when I got my first paycheck that I get paid an extra $1/hr on Saturdays and an extra $1.50/hr in the evenings (which I think is like after 6 or 6:30 pm). I'm working till 7:30 pm most days so I am cashing in on the evening pay.
I only got 2 sets of the required uniform - blue scrub pants and these horrible blue patterned scrub tops with gleeful cartoon children and frolicking puppies and kittens on them. I got a size small, but the top is huge and the pants were about 8 inches too long. I attempted my first ever solo hemming job on the pants, sans sewing machine, sans even basic sewing knowledge, and while the results are fairly ugly, it's just a hem and it hasn't come undone yet. It took me so long to hem the first pair of pants that I skipped the second pair and have been wearing my own pair of blue scrub pants along with the 2nd scrub top. It's sort of annoying to have to do laundry every 2 days, but I'll survive.
I would guess that 90-95% of the patients we see at the clinic are dogs. Probably closer to 95%. I've seen about 15 cats come through the clinic since I started, and probably a couple hundred dogs. It's very strange. But I like it! Dogs are usually way easier to work with and handle in a clinical setting than cats are. The average cat just gets overwhelmed and scared and flips out. Only the really, really nice, well-socialized cats do okay.
I'm learning some of the joys of working for a clinic run by a corporate management team that is never actually present at the clinic. Case in point: last week, with no warning, the regional hospital director showed up one afternoon and announced that the clinic now has to stay open until 7 pm instead of 6 pm on Saturdays. Whoop de doo! That will start a week from today.
This clinic has 100% computerized medical records, which is both cool and weird. It's nice because, for one thing, you don't have to try to decipher handwriting. Everything gets relatively standardized and the records are very complete. You don't have to worry about losing a paper chart, and you can look at a patient's record from any of several computer monitors. It's a little weird for me because I'm used to working with paper charts, and I like to write things down on paper. That mostly just means that I have to remember to put my paper notes into the computer notes section. Which I sometimes but not always remember to do. I'm not 100% convinced I like this particular computer system, but there are several different commonly used veterinary software programs.
One of the regular vets at the clinic graduated about 3 years ago. She's cleaning out her old unwanted textbooks (which are all pretty recent editions) and giving to me for a couple bucks per book. Not sure which of them I'll need in the future, but they'll be nice to have for such a cheap price.
So that's what's going on in my vet school-related life right now. Turns out that while you're on summer break from school, there's not that much school-related info to blog about! Go figure. But I'll try to keep up w/occasional posts for the rest of the summer until we get back into the swing of things in August.
I'm working 36-40 hours a week, and as mentioned in a previous post, I'm quickly recalling what it's like to spend that much time in a vet clinic. This particular clinic has about 3 or 4 stools that are shared by anywhere from 4 to 8 employees working at once, and there is nowhere else to sit down. So, I'm spending plenty of time on my feet.
My first, third, and fourth weeks of work have been/will be made up of 4 days, with about a 9.5-10 hour shift each day. My second week was 5 days, 7.5-8 hours each day. I am pretty sure I prefer the schedule of fewer/longer days. Once I've done the morning commute and am in the swing of things at the clinic, a couple extra hours of work in one day is hardly noticeable.
I'm coming home physically exhausted almost every day. Being a vet is mentally draining and requires a fair amount of physical activity. However, I'm pretty much acting as a vet tech at this point, which requires less mental awareness but a great deal more physical activity. My feet and legs hurt, and I'm exercising back and shoulder muscles that I'm pretty sure have not been asked to do anything for at least a year, since I was last working as a tech. The bad news is that I've pretty much spent the last 9-10 months sitting on my butt in the classroom. The good news is that I can now already tighten my belt buckle by one notch!
The other thing I forgot about working as a tech is how beat up you get. We're talking bruises, scrapes, scratches, punctures, bites, etc. etc. etc. I notice the bites and scratches when they occur, but usually don't find the bruises until I get home and change clothes. Thankfully everything heals pretty quickly, and I now have the added peace of mind from knowing that I'm fully vaccinated against rabies.
I am apparently not quite as tough as I used to be. For the last 3 semesters of my undergrad, I worked as a tech during the school year, anywhere between 25 and 40 hours a week. For 18 months, I worked at the clinic every Saturday that I didn't have another commitment. Sundays were sort of a day off, after we got home at 1 or 2 pm post-church and lunch. But now, having 2 days off in a row seems like the best thing ever to me. No idea how I routinely went weeks and weeks at a time with only partial Sundays as my time off. Working Saturdays is fine with me now because CLH is home from work every day anyways. The only bummer is that I don't get to listen to "Car Talk" and "Wait Wait Don't Tell Me" so I have to go listen to them later on the NPR website.
Despite finding plenty to complain about re: work, I have to say it is totally awesome getting a regular paycheck again ($400 for the first week). The money is not spectacular and definitely wouldn't be enough to live on, but hey, I'll take what I can get. As an added plus, I found out when I got my first paycheck that I get paid an extra $1/hr on Saturdays and an extra $1.50/hr in the evenings (which I think is like after 6 or 6:30 pm). I'm working till 7:30 pm most days so I am cashing in on the evening pay.
I only got 2 sets of the required uniform - blue scrub pants and these horrible blue patterned scrub tops with gleeful cartoon children and frolicking puppies and kittens on them. I got a size small, but the top is huge and the pants were about 8 inches too long. I attempted my first ever solo hemming job on the pants, sans sewing machine, sans even basic sewing knowledge, and while the results are fairly ugly, it's just a hem and it hasn't come undone yet. It took me so long to hem the first pair of pants that I skipped the second pair and have been wearing my own pair of blue scrub pants along with the 2nd scrub top. It's sort of annoying to have to do laundry every 2 days, but I'll survive.
I would guess that 90-95% of the patients we see at the clinic are dogs. Probably closer to 95%. I've seen about 15 cats come through the clinic since I started, and probably a couple hundred dogs. It's very strange. But I like it! Dogs are usually way easier to work with and handle in a clinical setting than cats are. The average cat just gets overwhelmed and scared and flips out. Only the really, really nice, well-socialized cats do okay.
I'm learning some of the joys of working for a clinic run by a corporate management team that is never actually present at the clinic. Case in point: last week, with no warning, the regional hospital director showed up one afternoon and announced that the clinic now has to stay open until 7 pm instead of 6 pm on Saturdays. Whoop de doo! That will start a week from today.
This clinic has 100% computerized medical records, which is both cool and weird. It's nice because, for one thing, you don't have to try to decipher handwriting. Everything gets relatively standardized and the records are very complete. You don't have to worry about losing a paper chart, and you can look at a patient's record from any of several computer monitors. It's a little weird for me because I'm used to working with paper charts, and I like to write things down on paper. That mostly just means that I have to remember to put my paper notes into the computer notes section. Which I sometimes but not always remember to do. I'm not 100% convinced I like this particular computer system, but there are several different commonly used veterinary software programs.
One of the regular vets at the clinic graduated about 3 years ago. She's cleaning out her old unwanted textbooks (which are all pretty recent editions) and giving to me for a couple bucks per book. Not sure which of them I'll need in the future, but they'll be nice to have for such a cheap price.
So that's what's going on in my vet school-related life right now. Turns out that while you're on summer break from school, there's not that much school-related info to blog about! Go figure. But I'll try to keep up w/occasional posts for the rest of the summer until we get back into the swing of things in August.
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