Monday for a vet student

In the style of one of my recent posts, I present to you the oh-so-exciting story of my yesterday:

6:05 am: First alarm goes off. Ignore.

6:15 am: Second alarm goes off. Attempt to ignore.

6:20 am: Second alarm still going off. Drag myself out of bed. Feed cats, check Farmville, put in contacts, brush teeth, put on running clothes.

6:35 am: Walk/run on treadmill. I'm up to 25 straight minutes of jogging, with a 8-10 minute walking warmup and 10-40 minutes of walking afterward.

7:20 am: Stretch; shower.

7:40 am: Get dressed; make bed.

7:50 am: Breakfast (peanut butter toast + OJ + vitamin). Check email.

8:00 am: Make lunch (Caesar salad + a carrot + an apple + string cheese + yogurt + peanut butter cup).

8:10 am: Leave for school.

8:15 am: Stop by post office and learn that they don't open till 8:30. Bummer.

8:45 am: Arrive at school. Pick up a newspaper. Get my usual seat in class.

9:00 am: 50-minute Preventive Medicine lecture given by one of the exotics clinicians at the VTH. Topic: disease prevention in birds and reptiles. Funny/amusing professor, mildly interesting subject matter.

10:00 am: 50-minute Clinical Pathology lecture. Topic: acid-base analysis on biochemistry and blood gas panels. Not so difficult once you wrap your head around it.

11:00 am: 50-minute Clinical Pathology lecture. Topic: more acid-base analysis. Finish the lecture material and start going through actual cases, which are always more difficult to figure out than the textbook-type stuff. Lecture runs a bit late because the professor was nice and let us have the last hour of class off last Friday afternoon.

11:55 am: Grab lunch and hurry over to the Clark building for Management.

12:00 pm: Management is scheduled to begin. I start in on my lunch.

12:05 pm: Management professor actually enters the classroom.

12:20 pm: We start actually discussing management-related material in Management.

12:30 pm: The lecture degenerates into a discussion of how to build a house.

12:50 pm: Still talking about how to build a house (and guessing that the contractors who worked on the professor's house really hated him). He is still talking despite class being over, so we vet students leave.

1:00 pm: Pharmacology exam! Topics include pain pathways, NSAIDs, opioids, phenothiazines, alpha-2 agonists and antagonists, benzodiazepines, anticonvulsants, barbiturates, injectable/inhalant/local anesthetics, and antiparasitics. Exam is not too tough and the amount of studying I did seems adequate.

1:25 pm: Stop by the computer lab for a little email and Farmville.

2:00 pm: 50-minute toxicology lecture. Topic: heavy metal toxicity. Professor is decent but keeps mixing up calcium and copper when he's talking (very distracting). Put my head down for a quick nap when he says, "Oh, there's 10 minutes left, lemme try and rush through sulfur." I have no regrets about missing sulfur.

2:50 pm: Back to the computer lab. Check Farmville, check email. Apply for a scholarship which I'm unlikely to get since it's mostly aimed at food-animal people. But I'm not above spending an hour to do a 2-page application with the possibility of $2500.

4:00 pm: Head over to the lunch room to review some Clinical Pathology. Finish studying the kidney and start in on the liver. Thankful that the professor provided review questions to answer as I go through the notes.

4:35 pm: Walk to my car and head over to the VTH.

4:45 pm: Stop at King Soopers for some M&Ms (for baking purposes!).

4:55 pm: Arrive at VTH for radiology rounds (technically Diagnostic Imaging club rounds).

5:05 pm: Rad rounds start. One of my classmates presents two thoracic radiograph cases (both cases of canine influenza). A freshman presents two barium contrast study cases (a foreign body and an awesome case of persistent right aortic arch with resulting megaesophagus).

6:00 pm: Leave VTH and head home.

6:30 pm: Home! Time for dinner!

6:45 pm: Dinner = leftovers and quesadillas for me, some weird pasta thing involving seafood for CLH.

7:00 pm: Make some Chocolate Pretzel Candies. Easy and tasty. Nom nom nom!

7:20 pm: Play a couple games of Sorry with CLH; win one, lose one.

7:50 pm: Make more Chocolate Pretzel Candies!

8:15 pm: Watch an episode of the "Dead Zone" on DVD with CLH.

9:00 pm: Facebook/Farmville/email. Contemplate studying; decide against it.

9:45 pm: Head upstairs to get ready for bed. Realize I planted raspberries by accident on Farmville so I can't get in bed yet. Brush teeth, brush hair, take out contacts, feed cats, water cats, scoop litterbox, put on pajamas. Consider how lazy to be on Tuesday (no class till 11) and decide to get up around 7:15 am to run.

10:05 pm: Harvest raspberries on Farmville. Get in bed and read.

10:35 pm: Lights out!