The Beginning of the End of the Beginning

Hello, all!  I just had my large animal anatomy final (which went well) and two large slices of chocolate cake, so I am both a) on my very last day of smelling like a mausoleum and b) all sugared up!  It's a good morning!  Add to that the fact that Eli is coming out for the weekend and it's a damn fine Thursday (except for the SNOW but we'll leave that out of it because we're so charitable).

I'm sorry to have let the ol' blog slip so much this semester.  It was a bit more strenuous than the last and I wasn't staying on top of it very well, but I'm slowly reforming and hope to be SuperStudent by next year.  SuperStudent opens her books at least twice a week, not just in the days leading up to exams.  SuperStudent uses her daily planner.  SuperStudent goes running more often.  Come to think of it she sounds sort of obnoxious.  Perhaps another goal would suit...I know, I'll figure it out later....  That's more like it.

Next week: Nutrition, Physiology, Immunology, Pathology, Neuroscience finals.  Anatomy...check!

I'm so looking forward to coming home for the summer--with the water, and the mountains, and the horses, and the people.  I will need to find gainful employment but you know, that's not really what I daydream about while I'm here.  I have a couple weeks of work at my job here in Pullman--my department puts on a continuing education small animal endoscopy (small camera on a tube for scoping guts) lab for area DVMs, and I'm very excited about that.  I have so little experience with small animals and anesthesia, and I love imaging (and gadgets!!), and also they have air conditioning at work.  Really nice here in late May.  (We have AC at home in Poulsbo, too, but you wouldn't know it, MOM).

I'm excited for my cousin to get home so we can start working on his house again, because he lets me use tools.  For some reason a lot of people are reluctant to let me use tools on their property but Evan doesn't know this yet and I'm inclined to let him make his own mistakes decisions so no word from the peanut gallery, thanks.  I'm excited to kidnap Jackie and go find hiking trails at the very ends of twisty precipitous dirt roads.  I'm excited to be riding again (don't laugh at me Janet I've been busy and I'm out of shape), and to be able to just throw my dog in the backyard when she's annoying and have a dishwasher.  I'm excited for Mariel to move to Arizona and MB to move to Nawlins because then I'll have more trips to make although maybe not this exact summer.  I'm excited for Eli to send me photos from Alaska and then come home.  I'm excited at the prospect of being so bored that coming back to school sounds like a good idea, because I'm sorry vet school but I've lost that lovin' feeling.

Summer is so thrilling.