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This day is just not going well for me. Temp came up and it stopped snowing, sun came out and melted everything that fell, but then I get a phone call. Yep, a scholarship process I've been working on since MAY OF LAST YEAR might not get turned in on time by the in between people because of bureaucracy and people not having their crap together. To top it off, apparently some people decided just a couple of weeks ago to start the process for the same scholarship (again that I've been working on for almost a year) and part of the reason mine is getting delayed is to try to rush theirs so they can be in the same cycle. And now mine might not even get in this cycle. I cannot express the shear and utter frustration I have at this moment. Tears have been shed, pillows have been screamed into, cat has been chased for hugs... gwaoiefhweoghweog!!!!
 
devyn said:
It be one day of the posts changin'... they will all go back to normal tomorrow....

not sure what the big deal be... it be feckin' funny
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It is pirate themed mateys! This makes me want to change Facebook over to pirate for the rest of the day. I don't mind it temporarily...the rant posts are hilarious now.
 
kcoughli said:
This day be just not goin' well for me. Temp came up and it stopped snowin', sun came out and melted everythin' that fell, but then me get a phone call. Yep, a scholarship process me've been workin' on since MAY OF LAST YEAR might not get turned in on time by the in between people because of bureaucracy and people not havin' their crap together. To top it off, apparently some people decided just a couple of weeks ago to start the process for the same scholarship (again that me've been workin' on for almost a year) and part of the reason mine be gettin' delayed be to try to rush theirs so they can be in the same cycle. And now mine might not even get in this cycle. me cannot express the shear and utter frustration me have at this moment. Tears have been shed, pillows have been screamed into, cat has been chased for hugs... gwaoiefhweoghweog!!!!
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I think my bad day must have been infectious... sorry. We'll just have to be miserable together tomorrow, I suppose... although my problems are ultimately my own doing, so, I suppose you have it worse. Sorry to hear... at least what I could understand through the pirate-talk, that is.
 
Took one step onto Missouri soil outside the airport and immediately sprained my foot. Winning.
 
I have seen and done a lot of gross things in vet school so far, but nothing grosses me out more than looking down in the shower and seeing a giant cockroach scurrying around my feet 🙁

move to an island, they said....it will be fun, they said...
 
allieh8607 said:
I have seen and done a lot of gross things in vet school so far, but nothing grosses me out more than looking down in the shower and seeing a giant cockroach scurrying around my feet 🙁

move to an island, they said....it will be fun, they said...
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haha ew. personally, unless its going to cause me personal harm (i.e. bites me), i've come to completely ignore its existence.
 
I went to a super interesting talk on dentistry today. For funsies I went home to look at my cat's teeth afterwards. Lila has nice teeth but I should probably start brushing them to keep them that way. Bear still has his loose lower incisor that the vet thought would fall out by now and both upper PM1s are tiny little nubbins where they used to be normal teeth. Awesome.
 
Messing up a 20 point question (on a 100 point exam today). All I want to do is rage. Would have done very well if it wasn't for that...
 
Tried decreasing one of my meds because it made me gain a bunch of weight (like 40 pounds, no small amount). I lowered the dose at the advice of my doctor last week sometime. The last three days I've had killer headaches. GREAT. Looks like I need to choose between being fat and being in pain. FML.
 
Puppy died today after being neutered. He did fine under anesthesia then suddenly went pale white, stopped breathing and heart stopped while we were recovering him from surgery. We did get him back for a brief period of time, but he did not survive in the end. 🙁
 
NStarz said:
Tried decreasing one of my meds because it made me gain a bunch of weight (like 40 pounds, no small amount). I lowered the dose at the advice of my doctor last week sometime. The last three days I've had killer headaches. GREAT. Looks like I need to choose between being fat and being in pain. FML.
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DVMDream said:
Puppy died today after being neutered. He did fine under anesthesia then suddenly went pale white, stopped breathing and heart stopped while we were recovering him from surgery. We did get him back for a brief period of time, but he did not survive in the end. 🙁
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🙁
 
This is going to be a long angry post, but please bear with me.

have been in the process of applying for an Army scholarship, the HPSP. If I got it my tuition would be covered for the next three years in exchange for service after graduation. I started working with the recruiters in May, filling out the immense application, submitting all the necessary paperwork, going in multiple times to talk to them and make sure I submitted everything. And I did. Unfortunately I was too honest, fessing up to my childhood "asthma", requiring my medical records from childhood to be sent. Due to a miscommunication, my old clinic sent them every single medical record instead of just the ones pertaining to the "asthma", meaning the army had to go through a hundred pages of medical records instead of the usual 10-20. It shouldn't have been a problem, since they had all of these records by October, but someone somewhere screwed me over. Basically, a different department reviews the medical records and then clears you for a physical. The physical results become part of your application (along with the 60 pages of application, motivation essay, copies of identification, transcripts, letters of recommendation, etc). My application has been done (with some minor essay revisions because I wrote too much for the form) since early March. I was waiting to be cleared for a physical. The deadline approaching, I started calling my recruiters almost daily worrying about getting the physical in on time. They told me that there was nothing to do but wait for MEPS to clear me and they would ask for an exemption waiver to try to buy some time.

Well folks, I got the call today, and the exemption did not go through. After a year of work and effort I'm getting rejected from this scholarship not based on anything to do with me, not because I failed to submit information on my end, but because the system failed to get their **** done on time. I did everything right, and I'm getting screwed. I might not have gotten the scholarship, it is competitive, but I won't even get a chance now due to shear bureaucracy and incompetence.

I just sobbed awkwardly in the hallway, dried my tears, and came back into my class but cannot for the life of me focus on pathology, as soothing as the Australian professor's voice is...
 
kcoughli said:
This is going to be a long angry post, but please bear with me.

have been in the process of applying for an Army scholarship, the HPSP. If I got it my tuition would be covered for the next three years in exchange for service after graduation. I started working with the recruiters in May, filling out the immense application, submitting all the necessary paperwork, going in multiple times to talk to them and make sure I submitted everything. And I did. Unfortunately I was too honest, fessing up to my childhood "asthma", requiring my medical records from childhood to be sent. Due to a miscommunication, my old clinic sent them every single medical record instead of just the ones pertaining to the "asthma", meaning the army had to go through a hundred pages of medical records instead of the usual 10-20. It shouldn't have been a problem, since they had all of these records by October, but someone somewhere screwed me over. Basically, a different department reviews the medical records and then clears you for a physical. The physical results become part of your application (along with the 60 pages of application, motivation essay, copies of identification, transcripts, letters of recommendation, etc). My application has been done (with some minor essay revisions because I wrote too much for the form) since early March. I was waiting to be cleared for a physical. The deadline approaching, I started calling my recruiters almost daily worrying about getting the physical in on time. They told me that there was nothing to do but wait for MEPS to clear me and they would ask for an exemption waiver to try to buy some time.

Well folks, I got the call today, and the exemption did not go through. After a year of work and effort I'm getting rejected from this scholarship not based on anything to do with me, not because I failed to submit information on my end, but because the system failed to get their **** done on time. I did everything right, and I'm getting screwed. I might not have gotten the scholarship, it is competitive, but I won't even get a chance now due to shear bureaucracy and incompetence.

I just sobbed awkwardly in the hallway, dried my tears, and came back into my class but cannot for the life of me focus on pathology, as soothing as the Australian professor's voice is...
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🙁 I had a sense it wasn't good news when you came into the room. Sorry to hear. That really sucks. I'm trying to think of something cheerful to say, but coming up short... at least you didn't die of granulomatous pneumonia?
 
I just got home from the doctor's where I was told I had an irregular heartbeat. Basically, my heart will sometimes take much shorter breaks between beats. He said he sees it in kids sometimes but by my age it should've resolved, and mine was much more pronounced than he usually sees. Now I get to go to a cardiologist and wear a 24 hour monitor. I hear all this the day after I have a stress related break down. I'm done with this week now.
 
kcoughli said:
This is going to be a long angry post, but please bear with me.

have been in the process of applying for an Army scholarship, the HPSP. If I got it my tuition would be covered for the next three years in exchange for service after graduation. I started working with the recruiters in May, filling out the immense application, submitting all the necessary paperwork, going in multiple times to talk to them and make sure I submitted everything. And I did. Unfortunately I was too honest, fessing up to my childhood "asthma", requiring my medical records from childhood to be sent. Due to a miscommunication, my old clinic sent them every single medical record instead of just the ones pertaining to the "asthma", meaning the army had to go through a hundred pages of medical records instead of the usual 10-20. It shouldn't have been a problem, since they had all of these records by October, but someone somewhere screwed me over. Basically, a different department reviews the medical records and then clears you for a physical. The physical results become part of your application (along with the 60 pages of application, motivation essay, copies of identification, transcripts, letters of recommendation, etc). My application has been done (with some minor essay revisions because I wrote too much for the form) since early March. I was waiting to be cleared for a physical. The deadline approaching, I started calling my recruiters almost daily worrying about getting the physical in on time. They told me that there was nothing to do but wait for MEPS to clear me and they would ask for an exemption waiver to try to buy some time.

Well folks, I got the call today, and the exemption did not go through. After a year of work and effort I'm getting rejected from this scholarship not based on anything to do with me, not because I failed to submit information on my end, but because the system failed to get their **** done on time. I did everything right, and I'm getting screwed. I might not have gotten the scholarship, it is competitive, but I won't even get a chance now due to shear bureaucracy and incompetence.

I just sobbed awkwardly in the hallway, dried my tears, and came back into my class but cannot for the life of me focus on pathology, as soothing as the Australian professor's voice is...
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Not that it makes up for them not getting their **** in line, but isn't there a two year program, also? Obviously you'd miss out on one year of tuition benefits, but you'd get the same after-school opportunities and if you want to do military medicine, that would probably be worth it.

Sorry to hear that, though. 🙁 My father's a marine and has missed out on promotions due to bullcrap bureaucracy in the higher ups... you're not alone. :/
 
I finally got score sheets back from a presentation I gave at a competition last week. I'm a bit bewildered as to how three judges can all watch the same presentation and score me 90, 91, and 70. The one who gave me a 70 didn't really even say anything negative in the comments either. I'm perfectly fine with receiving poor scores, but please tell me what I did that you didn't like so I know how to better myself in the future.
 
JaynaAli said:
I finally got score sheets back from a presentation I gave at a competition last week. I'm a bit bewildered as to how three judges can all watch the same presentation and score me 90, 91, and 70. The one who gave me a 70 didn't really even say anything negative in the comments either. I'm perfectly fine with receiving poor scores, but please tell me what I did that you didn't like so I know how to better myself in the future.
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Maybe he didn't like your shoes? That seems silly when the other 2 gave you 90+. I wouldn't put too much stake in it 🙂
 
Well... second winter is here. 1.5 inches on the ground with a couple more coming over night that will probably be frozen solid tomorrow morning, followed by a few more inches of wet slushy snow tomorrow. Oh well. At least we're not getting tornados. Or baseball sized hail. And it'll be back in the 50s on sunday... so, there's that.
 
It was non-stop storms here for about 24 hours with hail, flash-flood warnings, and tornado watches. All ended fine tonight- but it was a pretty intense night last night trying to sleep (when we had to wake up for a 7:20 exam) with it hailing.
 
*poof*

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OMG....that is atrocious. I hope that was a lesson learned and that those people never assume again....I hope the original responders were notified somehow?

I would have wanted to rip someone's head off....

I really hope he pulls through. :xf: :xf:
 
@DVMDream Is it cold where you are? (was thinking body temp went low enough to be barely alive and heat from incinerator "woke" it up?)
 
Trilt said:
Not that it makes up for them not getting their **** in line, but isn't there a two year program, also? Obviously you'd miss out on one year of tuition benefits, but you'd get the same after-school opportunities and if you want to do military medicine, that would probably be worth it.

Sorry to hear that, though. 🙁 My father's a marine and has missed out on promotions due to bullcrap bureaucracy in the higher ups... you're not alone. :/
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There is a 2 year option, but you still have to serve the same amount of time afterwards as you do if you get the 3 year scholarship. Which bothers me. I also cannot see myself working with the same incompetent people throughout another full year - I've been holding my tongue for 11 months as they've jerked me around but to go through it all again is more than I can bear thinking about right now.
 
It's 3am here and I have at least another 3 hours of work ahead of me. I haven't been slacking off nearly enough to be pulling these sorts of nights every. single. week. :help:
 
The thing that I thought was an easy fix for my car? Yeah, turned out to be not so easy. It worked fine for a day and started doing the same thing yesterday. *sigh* Back to the garage again.
 
A really good (American) friend of mine is getting married in September. I'm lucky enough to be a bridesmaid and it's sort of a country-themed wedding where I am supposed to wear my cowboy boots with the dress (yeehaw!), so I'm excited for that.

However, Canadian David's Bridal does not have the damn colour. Why wouldn't you have the same colours as the American store??? I mean really!!!!

But the U.S. doesn't ship anywhere outside of the country, so I'm forced to order and ship to my parents in AZ, but there's no guarantee that it will get there in time before they leave. This whole shipping only within the U.S. is old. Get with the damn times.



and I love my friend and will wear whatever she wants. I'm not sure she understands how bright this yellow is though....it is a bright a** yellow...lol
 
Escalla said:
Bridesmaid woes
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Omg I know how you're feeling...I'm a bridesmaid for a wedding in July and the poor bride is going to have to ship my dress to my US address and then my parents will have to send it to St. Kitts because the company won't ship internationally. I'm surprised they won't even send to Canada though! Then hopefully I can find a seamstress on this dang island because of course my body isn't nice and I'm a mix of like 3 dress sizes spanning from 2-6 so inevitably I'll need it to be altered. Of course it is going to be ready for pick up AFTER my two week break that I'll be home for this month and then I won't be home again until the wedding :shrug: I'm going to have more gray hairs than the bride after this is all over with lol but it's also a country wedding and she is buying us all cowboy boots...which I will probably never wear again after the wedding :/
 
allieh8607 said:
Omg I know how you're feeling...I'm a bridesmaid for a wedding in July and the poor bride is going to have to ship my dress to my US address and then my parents will have to send it to St. Kitts because the company won't ship internationally. I'm surprised they won't even send to Canada though! Then hopefully I can find a seamstress on this dang island because of course my body isn't nice and I'm a mix of like 3 dress sizes spanning from 2-6 so inevitably I'll need it to be altered. Of course it is going to be ready for pick up AFTER my two week break that I'll be home for this month and then I won't be home again until the wedding :shrug: I'm going to have more gray hairs than the bride after this is all over with lol but it's also a country wedding and she is buying us all cowboy boots...which I will probably never wear again after the wedding :/
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That does not sound fun. I hope you can find someone on the island!

I used to be very much against cowboy boots....going to a school with a hunt and western equestrian team that were rivals, anything western was considered treacherous....but then I bought some at graduation and they're my favourite pair of shoes to wear anywhere. I do wear a lot of jeans though.

So you never know....😉
 
Coquette22 said:
The thing that I thought was an easy fix for my car? Yeah, turned out to be not so easy. It worked fine for a day and started doing the same thing yesterday. *sigh* Back to the garage again.
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Car back again. This time some wires were replaced. It's working, for now, but I feel the need to sacrifice a chicken or something to hope it stays that way.
 
I have several rants. Here they are, listed chronologically.
My cat was euthanized earlier this week. He had so many health problems, and I knew it would be time soon, but it's still hard to say goodbye. I'd had him since I was in elementary school, and he was such a good cat. As if that wasn't enough, I found out the next day that one of my favorite dogs (not my dog, but a dog I take care of a lot and am really attached to) may need rehoming soon. I'm going to miss him, because I've gotten used to seeing him every day and probably won't after he's rehomed. I'm also a little concerned about his adoptability. Today I learned that someone I know is in the hospital and is not going to recover. 🙁 I'm feeling a little numb right now.
 
allieh8607 said:
Omg I know how you're feeling...I'm a bridesmaid for a wedding in July and the poor bride is going to have to ship my dress to my US address and then my parents will have to send it to St. Kitts because the company won't ship internationally. I'm surprised they won't even send to Canada though! Then hopefully I can find a seamstress on this dang island because of course my body isn't nice and I'm a mix of like 3 dress sizes spanning from 2-6 so inevitably I'll need it to be altered. Of course it is going to be ready for pick up AFTER my two week break that I'll be home for this month and then I won't be home again until the wedding :shrug: I'm going to have more gray hairs than the bride after this is all over with lol but it's also a country wedding and she is buying us all cowboy boots...which I will probably never wear again after the wedding :/
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you can do that?? i wouldnt dream of having something like that shipped to grenada, it would either a)never get here, b)take forever to get here and then c)i'd have to pay a whopping amount on taxes because i'm receiving something from outside the country (all at the discretion of the customs officer of course)
 
Kicking myself because I messed up on my biochem exam on Monday, so now I basically need perfect scores on the remaining homework assignments, the last quiz, and the final to get back up to an A. Which is probably impossible since I have 2 weeks until the final, during which time I'll also be writing 5 final papers for other classes. Ugh.
 
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