Boom! There's a new semester!

So everything is going well. Just assume that is the general theme.
When the worst part of your life is that your cat has decided she can get on the counters after about a year and a half of life....well then you don't have much to complain about do you?

So this semester is all about large animal. Ok, it's not really all about them, but because we have anatomy lab so often the theme of anatomy lab is the theme of life.

Luckily, according to one of the main Large Animal (LA) docs in the clinic, the LA part of clinics is super laid back and fun and funny. Girlfriend has a green streak in her hair, so she knows what's up.

Anatomy lab is slow for many reasons. The first reason is that these animals are large, so everything takes awhile to clean out and find and manipulate. The second reason is that there are about 15 of us in every group, but there is only enough room for so many people to be working at one time. So I spend some time reading from the book and pointing things out. I really miss my old anatomy group. Believe me when I say my new group is a great group by far and there are many groups that are not nearly as easy to get along with. But still...my old group was so fun, I wouldn't mind everything taking so long because we have so much fun together. But I am getting to hang out with some new people so that is really good, change is just hard and last semester was so much fun. It is so neat to be learning about the LA side of things though. I am kind of a moron about that because my parents wouldn't buy me a farm. Rude.

We also start a really neat but not important at all to my grades type class. It's called Clinical Skills and it is essentially a pass/fail, laid back kind of class. It's to get everyone to a baseline of comfort with some basic animal handling skills and just a certain level of comfort around the animals. So for me, the small animal portion will be very easy and the large animal part will be a little trickier. Luckily it should be low key and fun. I think we will all learn a little something and it will be nice to have a more chill kind of class with so many practical applications. I'm so excited because I am in the second group which means that some groups went today and I get to go tomorrow and play with cows! We are all so stoked to touch live animals again that we can't handle ourselves.

Not gonna lie though, I am a little nervous. We are gonna be in groups, but there are somethings that you can only do one at a time. With animals everything is a little iffy and I already hate being the center of attention. What if I embarrass myself? I know it's ridiculous, and I am not even that worried, but these are the kinds of things I think about. We also get to practice different hitches and knots so I'm gonna feel like boy scout.

All in all I feel  rather caught up. Most of our classes are focusing on the GI tract, and it is really nice to have that kind of continuity. Nutrition is the most sinfully boring class so far, but as long as boring still = understandable I can just get over it. I am even watching a movie right now and have been reading a real book that is not about animals and their problems.

I really love  what I do. Like a lot. Like I am a little afraid to graduate and not have learning new things be my whole job. It is great to a be a student. Oh! And the fact that my housing complex is going bankrupt is having no effect on our lives because we get to sign a new lease this month and our cost is only going up $25 total! That is like $6 a person. Our whole house is ecstatic. The idea of finding a new place really sucked and we were willing to pay nearly anything to stay in the same place for more than a year, that has never happened since undergrad started 5 years ago.

And I'm on a bit of health kick and have been eating veggies and fruits and not subsisting on things you can microwave. This means more of an expense than I prefer, but my rent isn't really going up so I can kind of afford it maybe.

I hope this 60 degree weather holds, because it puts everyone in a fabulous mood.
Or maybe it's just the movie that I am watching. No Strings Attached is hilarious so far.
I gots to get up bright and early to be productive and care about animals....life is hard.