A random stranger commented on a many year-old post... so I went back and read the last couple of entries in this journal. I did so with laura reading over my shoulder about the first time we met and how happy I was in the first summer of our romance. The lovely thing is that 2.5 years later I'm still happy! passed my national boards, will know ( Read more... )

"The woman who has been early accustomed to horse exercise gains a courage and a nerve which it would be difficult to acquire in a more pleasant and healthful manner. She also gains morally in learning to feel a sympathy with the noble animal to whome she is indebted for so much enjoyment, and whose strength and endurance are too often cruelly ( Read more... )

what a summer. Some things have gone as planned, but for the most part its been an excercise in get-over-failed-plans (of the lucrative nature) and fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants. Not so wildly exhilerating as some summers, but also not as painful... all in all, it has been VERY good. I'm currently involved in a back-and-forth with a woman ( Read more... )

the good news? I just won another $2,000 scholarship for school, and I have this amazing new friendship, and I'm having a blast and feeling really fulfilled by the teaching I've been doing recently

the bad? My graft is insufficent so I need another bone graft surgery and I'm feeling crazy again.

where that leaves me? I don't really know.

I'm not going to try to describe the past two weeks... too many little teeny "you had to be there to see it yourself" moments... basically the world is impossibly beautiful sometimes, I've been well entertained in good company and stuffed to the brim ( Read more... )

At some point on friday, it was decided that I would host a dinner party at my house. I did not have enough glasses, silverware, or chairs... and my lack of cook-ware was quite embarrassing (though meryl's ingenuity was awesome) but ultimately I provided a bottle of wine, bok choy, oil, lettucy greens, rhubarb sauce, strawberries, and icecream, ( Read more... )

Life is pretty amazing right now... last night I went out for a walk in my backyard for the first time... I walked out the door into a light drizzle around 8pm, shrugged, and started off up the hill. I walked through knee-high meadow and innoculous clouds of gnats down towards the lake... there were deer popping in here and there... and the sky ( Read more... )

Back from some serious adventuring... Four days up on punchbowl glacier hiking (which on a glacier apparently includes snowshoeing and scrambles and climbing mountain faces a leeeeetle too vertical droppy for this flatlander's comfort), sledding down mountains (again with vertical, but less terrifying and more crazy fun), log rolling down mountains ( Read more... )

... I'm done ( Read more... )

so I know I shouldn't complain about grades, but... it really sucks when you get a 79.4 in a class where you got a C on the midterm and an A on the final...

silly vet school... only 1 exam left... and I had my last class today. such craziness.