So I've just been watching "The Departed" on TV2, which is one of New Zealand's public television channels. In case you're unfamiliar with this movie, it has a lot of graphic violence and strong language. People get shot in the head with appropriate splattering and stuff, and there are (according to IMDb) 237 uses of the word "fuck" and its ( Read more... )

Can't quite bring myself to study for my last exam for 3rd year, so what do I do? I update Livejournal! For the amusement of the five or so people that might happen to read it ( Read more... )

Russell brought me flowers today. :-)

This is the list of courses I take next year ( Read more... )

So it was an eventful weekend for people living in my flat ( Read more... )

Been very busy with school stuff lately. We had two tests week before last, both of which were OK considering how little I studied for either. This past week we had an assignment on bovine obstetrics due, which was reasonably interesting but time-consuming. This coming week we have a scary microbiology lab test, and Friday our big assignment for ( Read more... )

I got to drive the tractor at the dairy farm today! Whee big tractor. AND I got to use the big arm thingy on the tractor to pull concrete posts out of the ground. Vroom vroom.

Tomorrow instead of going to class I get to stay home and sleep in because it's the start of our two-week vacation! Well, I don't really get to sleep in because I have to be at the hospital at 8am to give platelets. And it's not really a vacation because I have to work my butt off to try to get caught up on all my study and assignments, because ( Read more... )

I think I'm coming down with this flu-like illness that's been passing around the vet students so devastatingly that we've dubbed it the Vet Plague. Grr. I hate being sick. Right now it's just a sore throat, but I doubt it's going to stop there. Various of my classmates have had symptoms ranging from high fever to coughing/sneezing to GI upset ( Read more... )

I'm halfway done with vet school! Yesterday my vet class had its huge Halfway Day outing to celebrate this fact. This was funded mostly by calendar sales, plus a few other fundraisers; in total we raised about $25,000 ( Read more... )