Fell off the Thanksgiving deep end

So there were 2 major issues keeping me from blogging.
1a) The week before Thanksgiving we had our last big test on Tues and all of our brains left for break immediately afterwards
1b) I was on break.
2) I worked an overnight Sunday night

but now I am back in action baby!

Thanksgiving break was so wonderful. It was so nice to let my brain have a break and to practice talking to people who aren't in vet school. I relearned how to make jokes that are not anatomy or physiology based, so that was good for my social life.

I also got to walk my dogs and lay around and see my family and family friends. I am refreshed and ready for these last 3 weeks.

Three weeks left of my first semester of vet school? That is crazy. What is even crazier is that in the last 2 weeks of it we have like 6ish tests and I am not freaking out at all. I knew things would get easier, or I would get lazier and I think both have happened. Or I have just gotten even more relaxed than I was (we didn't even know that was possible).

I went to go get a new battery for my car yesterday and it was quite the experience. First of all it took 2 hours. Secondly I spent the last 20 min letting some dude tell me his highly unlikely life story which involved his new house (8600 sq ft without counting the basement), his son who he conceived when his ex-gf was 21 and he was 13, his new car, and his general feelings towards his ex and how he made something of himself by working on a farm during the day and at a restaurant at night. Oh and he was a marine. Very strange.

I also got to chit chat with one of the manager guys about meeting Debbie Turner (google her, Miss America, Mizzou vet school grad, generally awesome) and about vet school in general. I quite enjoyed myself. Which was good  because the dude working on my car was crabby. He was peeved about everything either of the managers asked him to do and I could hear him yelling at them from inside. The yelling involved the fact that he was a veteran. I have no clue how that had any bearing on him running  diagnostic on my car to make sure everything but my battery was fine....

But now it is fixed and I finally got a full nights sleep and I am ready for some learning. I'm working on actually knowing things so that someday when one of my friends or family asks me a question I will be able to answer and sound like I know what I mean :-)

Next time I will tell you a little how the ICU works because I really should get to class.
Have a great day y'all