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Monday, May 3, 2004

Well I was going to stop posting for a bit since I'm in the middle of switching from Radio Userland to Blosxom but it's not happening right this minute so I'll have to post. I got through my hellish week last week and am awaiting the scores from my exams. I'm not worried about virology though I'd love to have gotten an A on that test but I'm not sure. Cardiology did suck but it could have been worse; I did know how to answer some of the questions. I'm just hoping to get at least a 70% but I have no idea. I didn't do well on the short explanation questions. I was operating on a couple hours of sleep friday, we took the test from 7am-9am and then had class at 9am. Dr. N was giving us a hard time because we weren't so responsive but hey just give us credit for being the few that actually stayed for your class. Had class until 2 and then Rebecca and I tortured ourselves at the gym. I just did my usual workout but I was so tired it was hard to stand up let alone run. I was pissed to remember that when I got home I still had to do my online Clin Path quiz. It took me about 90 minutes and I got a 9/10 though while I was taking it I felt that I knew nothing. Stayed up to watch The Cure on Leno and then went to bed around midnight. Got up at noon and hung around the house with Cleo, my roommate and Cooper were gone, did some laundry, no studying, I forget what else, oh yea I talked on the phone a lot. Watched Nashville Star finals at night to see the guy I liked, Brad Cotter, win. Took Cleo running Sat and Sun. Stayed up til about 3am last night, feel asleep watching The Prince of Tides. How anyone could have an affair on their wife w/ Barbra Streisand even in a movie is beyond me. Got up at 1pm today, finished laundry, cleaned my room, the kitchen. Did one chapter of Clin Path. 7 more to go for the test Thursday. I'm going to try and go to sleep though I got up so late.

The most disturbing news this weekend was my dad got in a major crackup earlier in the week and didn't tell me until Saturday. Some lady ran a red light and rammed into my dad's door. His air bag went off and he tried to get out but he was in so much pain after getting his leg partway out, some guy at the scene held his leg since he couldn't move it in or out anymore until the ambulance came. He went to the hospital and had xrays and MRIs to make sure his brain was okay and his internal organs. He has a bump on his head and a bruised kidney and spleen. This freaks me out cause he's also on warfarin so I don't want him to have internal bleeding or anything. I made him get an medical alert necklace when he started taking the warfarin exactly for times like this, wonder if he was wearing it. So he said he didn't want me to worry about him, he was okay. He said next time he'd have someone call a couple days after he's dead. Thanks for nothing Billy Martin! He also has a new 'girlfriend.'

Oh and also the good news: I got the MIT externship so I'll be spending my summer back in Boston and living with robreed and martiansmelli and BILLY my ferocious dalmatian. Now I need to figure out what to do with Cleo the hound. Hopefully it'll work out so he can stay w/ Jen and James and Josie the Schipperke and Cleo the kittycat.

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QUOTES

It's better to burp and bear the shame than not to burp and bear the pain.

Grandpa Martin, RIP

Keep your wits about you.

Dr. Wally Cash, DVM

If the present sucks, then look to the future.

RobReed, BadBoy

Well, I want to try everything in life.

Heather Rose Martin, CFG (crazy freak girl)

In the book of life there's only two women, big ol' good ones and good ol' big ones.

Ice Cube, HipHopper

I'd rather have a terrorist standing next to me than a Frenchman. (~15 min. later) Oh, I forgot about that, that's another reason I don't like the French, they eat horses.

Dr. Dee Griffin, DVM

Think about it. Sometimes people are just destined, destined to do, what they do. And that's what it is. Now everybody dance.

Justin Timberlake, Hottie!

Even in medicine, though it is easy to know what honey, wine and hellebore, cautery and surgery are, to know how and to whom and when to apply them so as to effect a cure is no less an undertaking than to be a [veterinarian].

Aristotle, 384-322 BC

Going to Kansas for Vet School is like going to the Special Olympics to play chess.

RobReed, BoyGenius

Now you can either stand around here eatin' jambalaya or you can come upstairs and eat my ass!

Brian Kinney, QAF Hottie!

It gets right ugly.

Dr. Patricia A. Payne, DVM

I'm just here to be a person.

Rob Reed, Brainiac

When I gotta poop, I gotta poop.

Heather Rose Martin, CFG

Inch by inch life's a cinch, yard by yard life gets hard.

Dr. Steve Swaim, DVM

Our scars have the power to remind us that the past was real.

Dr. Hannibal Lecter, CFB

Be a virus and travel the World! Free of ticket!

Dr. Sanjay Kapil, DVM

PICTURES

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RECENT GRADES

Clinical Pathology

Precourse Assessment 10/10
Quiz 1 9/10
Quiz 2 9/10
Quiz 3 8.5/10
Exam 1 78%
Quiz 4 8.5/10
Quiz 5 7.4/10 (1 of 2 lowest: doesn't count)
Exam 2 66%
Quiz 6 10/10
Quiz 7 6.3/10 (2 of 2 lowest: doesn't count)
Quiz 8 9/10

Radiology

Exam 1 98%
Exam 2 91%
Exam 3 96%
Exam 4 88%

Systemic Pathology

Problem Set 1 5.5/7
Problem Set 2 7/7
Exam 1 75%
Problem Set 3 5/5
Problem Set 4 4.5/5
Problem Set 5 6.5/7
Exam 2 78%

Medicine

Exam 1 62%
Exam 2 82%
Quiz 1 9/11
Quiz 2 11/11
Exam 3 90%
Quiz 3 9/11

Virology

Exam 1 83%
Exam 2 68%

Lab Animal Medicine

Exam 1 88%

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	Hi, my name is Heather. I'm a 2nd year vet student. Email me. I love giraffes! I wish I had a pet giraffe and I would name it Mr. Giraffe. One time I had a pet elephant and his name was Loyal. I sent him a letter in The Jungle when I was in undergrad but I don't think it made it there. Loyal was cool! Life sucks when you have to study all the time but don't, never relax without feeling guilty and never go out dancing!