I want off this train!

Because it's going too fast! 

Seriously, where has the semester gone?!?  Only four more days of class (and two pesky little exams in the way) before Spring Break is here!  After that, only three more weeks until Easter and the end of semester classes.  I do NOT feel ready to face the fact that I'm almost 1/4 of the way to a DVM.  I don't know enough yet...

School is rolling along, but it's not even funny how "out of love" I am with anatomy right now.  Last semester, yes, it was a pain in the neck sometimes to be learning all of these itty bitty pieces of animal and how they connect and where they go.  But it was bearable.  It was still very new, sometimes interesting, and usually only mildly painful (ahem, neuroanatomy).  This semester?  Ouch.  I'm so, so, so sick of that class.  I'm sick of sitting in lab for eight hours.  I'm sick of cramming my brain with a bunch of teeny details that I know I won't remember next year or use in practice.  I'm sick of the smell of moldy cadavers.  I'm sick of hugely ridiculous exams that are worth two credit hours a piece.  Don't get me wrong, it's still kind of fun to joke around with labmates and learn some of the really weird or cool bits of anatomy, but overall?  I'm over it.

/end whiny rant.

Ooooother than that, same old, same old.  Immunology and renal physio exams this week which, hopefully, will go okay.  We just about wanted to kiss our current physio teacher because she decided to make the test multiple choice - a first for the semester in any of our classes and a huge load off!  It's probably bad, but I definitely study for a multiple choice test differently than for an essay test.  My brain is slightly fried, and I'm excited that recognition and recall rather than regurgitation and comprehension is the name of the game on Thursday.

After that, I get to pack up and head home for a few days to see  my mom and puppy dogs!  Hoping to visit a few friends in the area and get some nights of good sleep before then flying out to Omaha to spend a weekend with the boy at his  new project site (how's that for an exotic vacation locale?).  As much as I don't want to...I probably will have to do some work over break seeing as how we have an exam the Wednesday we come back.  Ugggggh.

I also got word that I got a position in the research program here for the summer!  I'll be doing work on respiratory epithelial cell transitions that occur during fibrosis, which is pretty nifty.  Hope to learn a lot!

And, in happier news, I'll be on a baking frenzy this week for the many bakesales at school.  On the docket?  Pumpkin pie bars, white chocolate coconut blondies, and cinnamon rolls.  Tasty!

P.S.  I want a dog.  Bad.  *sigh*

More goats!

Drive-by posting to report that my lab group successfully castrated a baby goat last Friday!  We also got to watch a debudding (removing the horns) and helped get both babies and moms up to date on vaccines and wormers.

Not a bad day in school!

The boy was here this weekend and when we went to see all of the animals, we JUST missed two kids being born in the barn.  They were still all wet and barely standing and soooooo adorable!  We did however see the huge number of them in the fields frolicking and fighting over clumps of hay. :)

Oh, and anatomy is still going to likely kick my butt on Friday.  Nothing much has changed!