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Electric run last Friday... was super fun and fabulous. But about halfway through, I absolutely SMASHED my foot into a stray rock that wasn't well lit, and my ankle has been constantly tweaking with pain since. Really frustrated with it.
 
Abney said:
Got attacked by a stray dog today that chased my male away from me. I finally found him and I don't see any actual puncture wounds but he has a large hematoma on the right side of his neck.
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Oh no! Are you ok? Glad you found your pup. Hopefully he doesn't have anything funky going on under the surface. Poor buddy 🙁
 
wildcatj said:
Oh no! Are you ok? Glad you found your pup. Hopefully he doesn't have anything funky going on under the surface. Poor buddy 🙁
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Thanks. Yeah I'm ok. I'll have some bruising on my arm actually. I was 40 minutes late to school. I'm going to run home on my break to check on him.
 
One of my surgery group members is starting to get on my nerves slash make me nervous for the rest of the semester. She has repeatedly (three times now) missed things she was supposed to do and we haven't even gotten into the "important" stuff. With so much on our plates this semester I wish I had as much faith in her as our other groupmate; as it is, I feel like we have to constantly double-check her and frankly, ain't nobody got time for that. Wish Coquette was my other group member 🙁
 
I was gonna rant about my surgery groupmate (the one who never showed up yesterday morning), but since redhead's rant pretty much summed up what I wanted to say, I'll just do this....

One of my surgery group members is starting to get on my nerves slash make me nervous for the rest of the semester. She has repeatedly (three times now) missed things she was supposed to do and we haven't even gotten into the "important" stuff. With so much on our plates this semester I wish I had as much faith in her as our other groupmate; as it is, I feel like we have to constantly double-check her and frankly, ain't nobody got time for that. Wish redhead was my other group member 🙁
 
First years should not be expected to understand/be tested on the same lectures as third years. Just saying.

I guess it has to do with how they've changed the physiology class this year, but we get to sit through about 7 lectures of the third years' therio class as part of it for some reason. Starting today. I understood approximately none of it.
 
One of those days I guess. My brain is officially full. Apparently I need to empty out the part of my head that contains all the quotes from my favorite movies... or the part that has all of my embarrassing memories. And make way for some new formulas, concepts and terms...
 
equineconstant said:
First years should not be expected to understand/be tested on the same lectures as third years. Just saying.

I guess it has to do with how they've changed the physiology class this year, but we get to sit through about 7 lectures of the third years' therio class as part of it for some reason. Starting today. I understood approximately none of it.
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We had a situation similar to that last year...because of Ohio moving to semesters/the curriculum was restructured, 1st years had to take 2 classes with 2nd years (clin path and musculoskeletal). It was a bit frustrating at times (especially when the professors inevitably said...oh you guys learned this already so we can just breeze through it!). In the end, we ended up with the exact same grade distribution as the second years, so it wasn't too bad. Hang in there!
 
NStarz said:
We had a situation similar to that last year...because of Ohio moving to semesters/the curriculum was restructured, 1st years had to take 2 classes with 2nd years (clin path and musculoskeletal). It was a bit frustrating at times (especially when the professors inevitably said...oh you guys learned this already so we can just breeze through it!). In the end, we ended up with the exact same grade distribution as the second years, so it wasn't too bad. Hang in there!
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Thanks, that makes me feel a little better.
 
Looks like I'm joining the forever alone party 🙁 So much for a happily ever after...
 
I know that this should be in rave but I'll post this her. I FOUND A RESCUE TO TAKE OLIVE AND HELP ME GET HER ADOPTED OUT.
 
It must be nice to have zero obligations that you need to attend to so you can stay at school for 10+ hours.

Not that I have an SO or a child, but I have a parrot. I feel guilty about making such a high energy and intelligent animal sit in a cage while I'm at school. Also, the minimum amount of time to keep a bird happy is 3 hours out of the cage per day. And, parrots require 12 hours of sleep per night. We get up at 7am. I try my best to stretch it a little but by 7:30pm I have a really tired grumpy bird on my hands. Do the math, and if I'm lucky that's about 3 hours of time from when I get home. So, yes actually, staying a bit late does make a big difference to me. I'm not about to get kicked out of my apartment because I have an unhappy bird yelling his head off.

That is all.
 
My car decided it doesn't want to work anymore.
 
allieh8607 said:
While it's understandable that you're mad at yourself for what happened, you even said it yourself...it's probably for the best that you had to stop one of your positions. The thing with volunteer/work/experience is that it's not necessarily quantity that's important, it's quality of the work. And yeah they were all amazing places, but the quality of work you were putting in wasn't good enough for someone. I always try to look at it from the perspective of the people writing recommendation letters. Do you want to stretch yourself thin, volunteer at three places, and have three potential LOR writers never fully get the chance to know you well enough to write a quality letter? Or volunteer at one place and really put in quality time and know for sure that a potential LOR writer is really getting to know you? Just my two cents 🙂
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You're right -- I mean they offered it back to me cause when I was there I worked really hard and did what I was supposed but towards the end I was stretched too thin so I guess I owe them for the break 🙂
 
Stem cell research and lung diseases: I am very tired of you.
 
TooLove said:
It must be nice to have zero obligations that you need to attend to so you can stay at school for 10+ hours.

Not that I have an SO or a child, but I have a parrot. I feel guilty about making such a high energy and intelligent animal sit in a cage while I'm at school. Also, the minimum amount of time to keep a bird happy is 3 hours out of the cage per day. And, parrots require 12 hours of sleep per night. We get up at 7am. I try my best to stretch it a little but by 7:30pm I have a really tired grumpy bird on my hands. Do the math, and if I'm lucky that's about 3 hours of time from when I get home. So, yes actually, staying a bit late does make a big difference to me. I'm not about to get kicked out of my apartment because I have an unhappy bird yelling his head off.

That is all.
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I can so relate to this (and how it really IS a huuuuge important rant in your life that sounds like a petty firstworldproblem rant to anyone else listening. Well it is a firstworldproblem, but a gut wrenching personal prob nonetheless. No one truly gets it unless they've been a parrot parent). That was me throughout middle and high school. Making sure that my cockatoo got at least 2-3 hours of quality out of cage time with personal interaction, and fighting desperately to try and make sure the birds had enough sleep.

And I commend you for trying to make it work out with your too in an apt with school. There was no way that was going to happen with my umbrella and grey (they would not have been happy, but even if I wanted to try you pretty much had to live in the dorms for my UG). So they've been in long term foster care at the most amazing bird sanctuary. By the time I graduate vet school, they will have been there for 8 years. Most people don't understand why it is that these birds have been a source of great stress for the last 14 years of my life when I realized at age 14 that I would be their caretaker for life. When I had them I felt incredibly guilty everyday for how I was failing as a bird mom. Since I've had them in foster care I've continued to feel incredibly guilty for failing as a bird mom (though it's less paralyzingly now since I know they're happy where they are, a lot happier than they would be with me while in vet school).

They weigh on me veeeery heavily currently as I worry about my job prospects. I need to do whatever it takes to get them back ASAP after graduation and have a good situation for them. After this long history I owe it to them to give them a good living situation with a good routine (no longer the take it day by day, hope you don't mutilate yourself to death one day kind of life). For me, that would be a house with a dedicated bird room that can be closed and darkened for bedtime, outdoor flight and some sort of arrangement for someone to give them supervised outdoor time daily during warmer months and quality indoor playtime during the day during the bitter cold months. That is a tall order for a new grad these days... But I need to make it happen. I've been thinking up of different ways to make it happen for several years now, so I'm sure I can make it work... My too now has a bonded girlfriend I will likely adopt, so that should help a lot in keeping him sane... But at the same time causes me extra anxiety.

It's kind of sad when I meet people as the crazy cat lady, and they have no idea that I'm even more of a psychotic parrot lady... Talk about an awkward dating situation. "I'm glad you're not turned off by my catladiness and think it's kind of cute. Lemme step it up a notch for ya. In 9 months my life will be dictated by what I can/can't do for my birds. Push comes to shove, my cat and birds will always be more important to me than you. If you decide to stick around, my cat won't affect your life too much other than that she's attached to my hip, but my birds will require a lifestyle change"

I foresee myself being alone into my old age...
 
Our surgery dog (from a high kill, rural shelter in the area) is somewhat ugly and has skin problems. 🙁 He's a sweetie, but I don't see him getting adopted...
 
Mini Rant: Stress acne. Seriously, wtf does my body think it's accomplishing with this? It's not like making me look like I'm 13 again is going to magically make vet school easier. 🙄
 
Have been having migraine headaches for the past week, got some stronger meds from the Dr. today, now just need to make it through 3 hours of lectures so I can go home and relax with meds on board.
 
BlackDog17 said:
Mini Rant: Stress acne. Seriously, wtf does my body think it's accomplishing with this? It's not like making me look like I'm 13 again is going to magically make vet school easier. 🙄
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Glad my body is not the only dumb one! Seriously, though, why?!?
 
DVMDream said:
Have been having migraine headaches for the past week, got some stronger meds from the Dr. today, now just need to make it through 3 hours of lectures so I can go home and relax with meds on board.
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🙁 I feel you.. I literally have no time to get sick, I work 730 AM to close Tues & Thurs and 730 AM to 5 PM then off to class til 9 Mon & Wed, then Fridays I alternate working and being off, Saturdays I'm on every one, and I have 4 classes of homework to keep up with. I know compared to vet school it's not that much, but I get migraines from being stressed/weather changes/diet issues, and now with all of this I'm extra paranoid which is triggering the stress migraines. 👎
 
Had a Skype date with my boyfriend tonight. First time we've Skyped all month and I've been really looking forward to it all week. We ended up spending an hour and a half dealing with technical difficulties and listening to our own awkward silences because we had nothing to talk about, despite the fact that we've hardly communicated all week. Now I'm frustrated and disappointed.
 
BlackDog17 said:
Had a Skype date with my boyfriend tonight. First time we've Skyped all month and I've been really looking forward to it all week. We ended up spending an hour and a half dealing with technical difficulties and listening to our own awkward silences because we had nothing to talk about, despite the fact that we've hardly communicated all week. Now I'm frustrated and disappointed.
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I feel like with long distance relationships (of any kind) that it can be hard to know what to say at first when you finally get to talk. But usually within a couple days of more consistent talking, or actually seeing each other, it's like the separation ever happened. I guess I'm just saying that while it totally sucks, don't read into it too much.

My best friend from home and I will watch TV shows together over the phone because that's what we always did when I lived near her. You guys could always pick a show to skype-watch together and it would feel more like you were hanging out in real life and make it so the conversation wasn't so forced.
 
Just found out that my mom's fiancee's sister committed suicide tonight. My heart aches for him....
 
It's my grandpa's funeral today and my sister and I are the only ones who can't go. 🙁
 
My laptop randomly froze last night and when I went to restart it, it wouldn't start. I'm really glad I finished the SOAP that's due Monday, but this puts a serious damper on catching up on typing my notes and doing the research I need to for physio. Feeling really grateful I have a tablet about now...
 
bunnity said:
I feel like with long distance relationships (of any kind) that it can be hard to know what to say at first when you finally get to talk. But usually within a couple days of more consistent talking, or actually seeing each other, it's like the separation ever happened. I guess I'm just saying that while it totally sucks, don't read into it too much.

My best friend from home and I will watch TV shows together over the phone because that's what we always did when I lived near her. You guys could always pick a show to skype-watch together and it would feel more like you were hanging out in real life and make it so the conversation wasn't so forced.
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He ended up calling me by phone a little while after we gave up on Skype and we talked for about an hour, so I do feel a bit better now. Just sucks because between our two schedules, the time difference, and my extremely crappy internet, opportunities to Skype are extremely rare and I feel like we totally blew that one. Next chance probably won't be until after I move to my new place in three weeks. :lame:
 
Washing machine quit working last week... have called my letting agency numerous times... always get the voice mail... have left two messages and sent an email (a rather abrasive email telling them that it is unacceptable to ignore people and not return their calls), still no response. 😡😡

Machine happened to stop working with water still in it... so my clothes (luckily only a shirt and sweater) were sitting in soapy water... finally got the door to open (which made a bit more of a mess, but I wanted my clothes) and I had to finish washing those items the good ol' fashioned way. Hopefully they will be dry in the next day or two.
 
It's nearing the point where I almost can't drink anything at all. This is ridiculous. I had 2 beers, two blue moons, 3 hours apart last night and I have a little hangover. Freaking ridiculous.
 
SV88 said:
It's nearing the point where I almost can't drink anything at all. This is ridiculous. I had 2 beers, two blue moons, 3 hours apart last night and I have a little hangover. Freaking ridiculous.
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Well, that's till an envious state to be in from my pov. I get gastric reflux like woah if I even drink 1/2 a bottle of beer. Like I'll puke out like a liter of fluid if not more over the next 6 hours...
 
Minnerbelle said:
Well, that's till an envious state to be in from my pov. I get gastric reflux like woah if I even drink 1/2 a bottle of beer. Like I'll puke out like a liter of fluid if not more over the next 6 hours...
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Ick 🙁 I'm really sorry. Is it just beer or others as well? I had some tequila the other day, two margaritas, and I seemed to be ok from that. I'm supposed to go on a date tongiht so I'm frantically trying to rally so I can feel better before this progresses.😡
 
SV88 said:
Ick 🙁 I'm really sorry. Is it just beer or others as well? I had some tequila the other day, two margaritas, and I seemed to be ok from that. I'm supposed to go on a date tongiht so I'm frantically trying to rally so I can feel better before this progresses.😡
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Smoothies work wonders for me.
 
Had to buy a new laptop today because the display on my old one just stopped working. Really confused by windows 8. I don't really understand the start interface. Anyone have any experience with it? I do like the laptop I bought and it was within my price range...unlike the really neat touch screen laptop that I almost bought.
 
psilovethomas said:
Had to buy a new laptop today because the display on my old one just stopped working. Really confused by windows 8. I don't really understand the start interface. Anyone have any experience with it?
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Get your Start screen configured the way you want it (ie - get rid of the programs you don't use, add the ones you do, etc). If you Google "adding/removing tiles windows 8 start screen" or something, that should help you. And you can add programs to the taskbar on the Desktop screen as well. It does take some getting used to, but it's not bad once you get the hang of it.
 
DVMDream said:
Just had an awful nightmare, woke up having a complete panic attack. Feeling calmed down now... But I seriously feel pathetic... Why can't this just leave me the hell alone??? 🙁
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i have no advice or helpful suggestions, just wanted to give you a great big hug 🙁
 
There's apparently a sinus-y thing going around clinics right now. I think I have become the latest victim.

DVMDream, I struggled with chronic nightmares a couple of years ago. I ended up having to go see my doctor and be put on an anxiolytic and benzo because I was so sleep deprived that I was no longer able to accomplish anything.
 
psilovethomas said:
Had to buy a new laptop today because the display on my old one just stopped working. Really confused by windows 8. I don't really understand the start interface. Anyone have any experience with it? I do like the laptop I bought and it was within my price range...unlike the really neat touch screen laptop that I almost bought.
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Download a program called ClassicShell. It's free (just google it and you'll find instructions) and allows you to get a real desktop like the previous Windows versions have. You can even customize things like how you want your start bar to look and whether you want the metro screen to come up ever (I don't - I only see it now if I specifically go to it). I recommend it to everyone because I am SO much happier with my laptop now that I don't have to deal with that awful metro interface any more!
 
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