tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6837914080367409002011-08-07T21:31:30.070-04:003.141592653589793238462643383279 50288419716939937510582097494Christina!http://www.blogger.com/profile/08015821237244636500noreply@blogger.comBlogger171100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683791408036740900.post-14881651148424607872009-01-04T21:52:00.003-05:002009-01-04T22:22:41.538-05:00

I guess a lot has happened since my last post, but I have a good reason for not posting. It's still not anything I want to talk about, but not out of shame or embarrassment or really anything that has to do with humans.I graduated on December 19th. It was really nice. My grandparents came down and spent the whole day with me. Grandpa held up really well despite the Parkinson's. My neighbors

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I was probably supposed to grow up before I got to college, but I still sorta don't feel like an adult yet. I'll be graduating in five weeks and I was offered a job on Wednesday. I guess it's not a real job yet; it's a "professional internship" at Walt Disney World.I suppose that the simple fact that I'll be working at Disney is further proof that I haven't grown up yet.On the other hand, I'll

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Since the vet school application is due today, I guess it's safe to assume that no one will plagiarize my work and get me in trouble for posting my personal statement.The personal statement is the essay on the vet school application. You pretty much have to summarize your life in relation to veterinary medicine and tell them about your version of the American dream in less than 3800 characters

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Last Saturday was my cousin Whitney's wedding (the 7th wedding I've attended since high school graduation, but who's counting?) The Sunday before that was Laura Dresdow(now Driggers)'s wedding. Both weddings were very pretty and pleasant, but I must admit I enjoyed Laura's more. Probably because I knew her better. And because the preacher quoted The Princess Bride during the ceremony. Trooo

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...que escribí. Time to update.Lauren and Grace and I met at Julie's apartment for dinner today. It was quite lovely. We watched 27 Dresses and then made tacos and whatnot for dinner. Her husband, Brian, is always entertaining. She gave us each a bag of Amish friendship bread that she got from a friend at work, so I'm trying to figure out who I'm going to give my bread starter to in 10 days.

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Yes, I am quite late in posting this; my fourth and final day of externship was Thursday. A thousand apologies. So let's jump right into the case studies, shall we?Charlie, 19-year-old Quarter Horse geldingCharlie is the horse with the eye problem. I don't know whether I mentioned him earlier or not, but he has had one eye removed already and now the other is having problems. Dr. Butterworth,

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Today was kind of uneventful. We sat down in the conference room thing to do rounds this morning, which was nice because standing in front of the patients' stalls for two and a half hours really makes your back hurt! However, I can see the benefit to actually going to the patient to talk about him. It helps you remember the patient better when you've seen her with her foal or you've seen how

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I learned more things today!Callie taught me how to examine a horse and some of the silly acronyms. I determined heart rates, listened to gut sounds, and watched respiration. I got to watch a tooth removal on a 15-year-old horse and met the large animal dentist, Dr. Lowder. He's a very friendly fellow and he was very inviting and open to my watching the surgery. Apparently he's one of the

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I don't know if I can really call it an externship, but I decided to go hang out at the large animal treatment hospital this week (with permission, of course). Dr. Pellegrini, the large animal vet I'm shadowing, has a few students under her charge. Let's see if I can remember their names: Sabrina, Neil, Callie, Sarah, Dana, and I think there are one or two more. They're all very nice.

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Yeah, study abroad was AMAZING, but Sean's trip is really inspiring. I kinda want to go somewhere for a period of time and do something worthwhile. Sure we taught some Peruvian kids about hygiene, but that really didn't seem that significant. I'll have 7-8 months of "free time" between graduation in December and possible enrollment in vet school in August 2009. I don't really know what to do

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I thought this semester would be really lame because I'm not taking any animal classes. Much to my surprise, however, I have found that the classes that I suspected I would like the least (Genetics and Microbiology) are turning out to be more fascinating than I had imagined. I suppose the primary reasoning behind my change of mind is that my professors are complete nerds and are not

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Postcard from SPACE!Check it out. I was pilot on this ride!

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I volunteered at the Georgia Aquarium today. I worked in the 4-D Theater with a woman named Patsy. Like me, she's been a volunteer since May, but she has a lot more experience than I do because she lives 30 minutes away from the aquarium and I live 2 hours away from the aquarium. She taught me some things and spread her contagious optimism and lightheartedness. It would be so easy to be

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I made connections to Harry Potter today in both of my anatomy classes and it made me really happy. First, in Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy, in which we are learning a little about neurology, I learned that the part of your brain that controls your anger--the amygdala (which oddly means "almond-like")--doesn't connect to the rest of your brain until you're in your twenties. That means that you

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Monday: Quadrathlon Night I.Practicum was interesting. It was fun making up names and functions for things we didn't know anything about. Allen was a great team member, even though neither of us knew how to castrate the piglet. The written exam was kind of fun, too. We made things up for that part, as well. Allen knew about horses much better than I did, but I was able to write some pretty

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This has been the most fun week of my life and I can't wait until I have time to actually write about it because the cows ain't come home yet....

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Pi is my favorite number because it's irrational. It's also homophonic to the dessert, which is spelled the same as the word for "foot" in Spanish. I kinda like this. Maybe I should post a picture of a Silkie chicken just to make it that much cooler. OR a video of my baby brother trying to eat his shoe. I think I'll do both.

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