Back in Action

I bought my bike on Saturday...I went for a solo ride that day, and Annie and I rode today. Ultra fun. We look like huge nerds on our matching bikes...luckily our outfits weren't coordinated.

Today was our first day back in school and it was pretty intense. 6 straight hours of lecture. But not to worry! Our profs were out of control, as usual:

Anesthesia: One human being poisoning another human being in a caring and reversible manner. The half-asleep looking after the half-awake while they are being half-murdered by the half-witted.

And from our anesthesia course notes, the first bullet point under the History of Anesthesiology:
"And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept; and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof" Gen 2:21

More firsts:
-Cruise
-road bike ride
-FONDUE!!! tomorrow night
-Bay to Breakers

Sorry about the randomness of this post. I'm a bit frazzled after the first day back in class. How are you?

Poppies will put them to sleep!!!

Oh spring break.

Nan and I went on a cruise to Ensenada for the weekend. We took every dance class available (70's line dancing, swing, salsa, country line dancing), played bingo, had margaritas and an all around good time. Pics to be posted on facebook.

In other news, Les and I grabbed some lunch at A Town Deli (thanks for the directions Nate...sorry for waking you up!) and went hiking in Auburn. Stellar sandwiches, perfect hiking weather, poppies everywhere and good company (including salamanders/newts and a banana slug)...honestly, it couldn't have gotten any better. I LOVE spring break!

Also, I'm planning to buy my road bike this weekend. I've been shopping around and so far this is the one I'm most interested in (but last years model, so with a significantly different price tag). Any thoughts/recommendations?

Funnies

Because everyone needs a laugh during finals...

"Cu deficiency of damn during pregnancy."
-sys path lecture notes

When in doubt, cut it out!! -sys path

Heaven forbid you should learn something clinically important in the second year of your schooling. -radiology

Cor pulmonale. If you translate that from the Pig Latin... -sys path

Brown stuff that indicates badness is here... -sys path

They both tend to eat your face off, so that distinction is not of much prognostic value. -sys path

One solution is made up in absolute alcohol, so you get them drunk and anesthetized.- pharm

It sounds like a factory. I'm sure you all worked in factories as children. -sys path

This is like a heart with its t-shirt off. -sys path

Geeked Out

It's official, I'm the biggest nerd at the vet school (and possibly the universe).

I definitely had a dream about lung pathology in horses last night. Yep. I dreamt that I was going to rescue this horse, and I thought so myself, Self, we should radiograph this horse's lungs. So we did, and there was a diffuse interstitial pattern, and I started going through differential diagnoses in my head. !!!! Um, and I actually came up with some. !!! We never figured out the disease in my dream, but I elected to euthanize the horse because it had such bad pneumonia. Yesiree, vet student dreams.

Other dorkiness: I was eating a slice of focaccia bread yesterday and thought it looked just like a slice of lung from our pathology lab. Then I thought it would be a cool idea to make focaccia with stuff in it to make it look like it was a rhodoccocus lung (ie put olives in the bread to represent the abscesses). Too gross?

I'm still here. Sort of.

Studying like crazy. Some updates:
-Anne (my roomie) and Travis are engaged!
-Chickens are sensitive to photoperiod (length of daylight). They sense photoperiod by light shining through their skulls into their brain. Seriously.
-Little is getting fatter. She's rockin a softball-sized pooch, despite her new weight management diet.
-I'm going to Turkey for a month this summer!
-Girl Scout cookie consumption tally: one box of tagalongs, once I've finished my lunch.

Busyness

Lots of things going on...


Brewfest!! Good times all around in MI. It was snowing when we (Nate and I) arrived, and then it was sunny ALL weekend (notice squinting and blue skies in the pic...woot woot). I even got a little sunburned. Yes, you read that last sentence correctly, I got a little burnt in MI in February.






FAB FIVE REUNION!!! Our Bible study from college (Nan, Renee, Mel, Abs and I). Although I don't have a pic of all 5 of us, the presence of 5 can be inferred from the pic (4 in the image, me taking the picture...genius!). We went to Burgers & Brew (new restaurant in Davis) and spent time catching up. I love my girls!






Little is officially a Piece of Trash.
At least she's recyclable, right?



Class field trip to PAWS...lions and tigers and bears, OH MY!