went out to santa fe with folk from work and it was very pleasant. hippy mama with well-rounded, happy granola children as we all snacked on cilantro and black bean burritos. spoke with vet grads several years out and had some eye openers about what is coming ahead. this following receiving an announcement for a job at banfield that starts at ( Read more... )

beautiful day in portland today and i ( Read more... )

been in portland since very late wed and things are feeling equilibriated. thur was a fabulous reintroduction to the places and people that quickly felt of my tribe. heard about a margaret cho reading at powells that night and managed to get there, randomly round up some friends and laugh for some time. the place i am staying is right on the max ( Read more... )

weekend relatively good with cleaning, organizing, packing, considering in prep for my 3 months away. in hindsight, i think about the little zoe around me throughout the day with a calming run somewhere in there. then off to michigan city and staying at a's fathers place. a beautiful home for the architect in the midst of pines that really did ( Read more... )

plane ticket bought, interviews set, staying at mike's house in ne portland right on the max line and his new roomie is a vegan chef (oi yay!) things ok in clinics. sa surgery is often busy and intellectually rather stimulating. keep coming up with nagging research ideas. might have to proceed onto phd work when i get a few years of clinical ( Read more... )

yesterday i discharged a patient and felt like a doctor for the first time. a confidence rooted in hundrads (thousands?) of hours of lit review and more and more practical experience. the little guy felt like *my* patient as i spoke with the owner (a med student) it was satisfying and invigorating to have sound answers for all her questions and ( Read more... )

now that i am in orthopoedic small animal surgery, the character and nature of middle of the night emergencies have changed. From 500kg of writing, painful, colicking horse to 10kg of non-ambulatory, often overweight, frequently sausage shaped dog with a ruptured disc ( Read more... )

small animal surgery started yesterday... the last of the "big 4" rotations is on. something like the home stretch... or, yeah. graduation day official: may 12. seems surreal to have an actual end date on this. may be applying for internship next month, but still unsure. if so, what/where. i am going ahead with the interviews in december. ( Read more... )

not so busy day; cute little heifer calf for probably abscessed urachal remnant removal...

but, had to mention: cow on the loose running around harrison street. 10 vet students in traffic with arms waved, ropes ready... hahahaha. good times

filled out and sent off my application for the california veterinary boards on the last day possible. will be sitting for them on dec 19, right after taking the national boards and the oregon boards. will be staying with the sister for a week, taking the exam and interviews branching out from the sacramento epicenter. they are buying a house ( Read more... )