the exam is _____OVER!!!!!!!!!!_____ ( Read more... )

alu is finishing up her grad school apps. all places in ny, arizona, colorado and wash state. argh. somehow, i can't imagine bringing myself to change my plans to follow another. i guess i am still very selfish. she is more limited in where she can go (program she is looking for, where she will be accepted) in truth, i am at this turning point ( Read more... )

more sea otter today. got the mass out and, as a metronome, the fuzzy thing began 'hiccuping' again right at the 2 hour anesthesia. but we were ready for her and she didn't arrest. yay. studied (or tried to) all day. subject line care of tech at the zoo. i actually got a bit melancholy as i stepped out the hospital for the last time today. ( Read more... )

late night studies in one of the coffee shops i hung out in during the college years... strange. and now, though so tired, i though to check email and of course here i am up on lj.

here's tiger and me: http://www.flickr.com/photos/48991446@N00/70823236/

yesterday: started out with anesthetizing female sea otter and taking it up to the hospital. it has a mass on its right abdomen of over 2 years duration. though a sterile cellulitis, but it has increased in size after being static for some time. we took some rads and started surgery after about 1hr into anesthesia. none of her pelt was shaven ( Read more... )

alu left today and i was soooo fricking sad. and once in the hospital, learned the male kudu dies last night. one left out of the four. spayed another bat and she seems ok. bat from yesterday is doing great. looked at some goat feet, some rabbit weight. worked most of the day on my project entitled (brace yourself for the titillation): " ( Read more... )

today was odd. first an exam on a very frightening sea otter. history of numerous human attacks with massive pearly canines fully engaged. but things went ok, with ready fear in the background keeping a low hum of thrill throughout the tasks. then i spayed a bat all on my own and felt very happy and content with my improving surgical abilities ( Read more... )

A has been here a few days and i have really fallen in love. i cared for her throughout this time but while watching an 1975 nicholson movie at cinema 21 i felt my heart perform that familiar gallop when she moved her fingers over my leg. i thought about her all today as i worked on a bat, a rabbit, a goat, a duck. the day moved effortlessly ( Read more... )

yesterday was dominated by anesthesia and oral surgery on a siberian tiger with a cracked canine. 170kg of amzaing felid with the unfortunate circumstance of captivity placed over its body and instinct. after 6 hours of anesthesia, we took the tiger back to its exhibit to recover in the back area. it remained hooked up to the gas anesthesia ( Read more... )

went out and listened to some live bands for the first time since i have been in oregon.. which has only been two weeks but actually feels much longer... it was a digging it good time but alas awake until 3 and i just don't do that shit well anymore. was supposed to go to a counter-protest at the lovejoy clinic this early morning but woke unable ( Read more... )