Xanga-August 30, 2006

I've been looking half heartedly for Hot To Trot, a movie made in 1988 with a talking horse and Bobcat Goldwaith. Anyway, you can't get it cheaper than like $30! So if I find it at a rental store, I'm stealing it.


Today, as I sat in veterinary molecular biology, I thought to myself, 'Boy, I really want to be a veterinarian.' So, I guess, I'll give this a go again. I don't think that I did too bad on my histo quiz today. Maybe missing like five questions. I didn't look at the key because there's nothing I can do about it; I might as well not rub it in. But the 60% in physology was a bit of a blow. So now I must suck it up and study the bOnes of the thorasic limb. And the joints. Don't forget about the joints.
Today was the class dress up day. I wore black pants, white tank top and a long pink shirt. Black ballet flats and belt. I have trouble deciding if I looked cool or dumpy or thin. Anyway, my class had a meeting today (go figure) and part of what we discussed was the dress code. Some people wanted to make two dress up days a week. Some other people, other classes/faculty and even our own classmates, felt that when we were casual (every day but Wednesday) we were too casual. (Hello! Look at the VM3s! Do you think they care? haha!) But I don't think so. I have only wore jeans one day. I don't mind dressing up but that's sure to change in a month or so. So we voted to leave it to one day. Really, it wasn't a vote as much as something to get the people complaining that you couldn't take their denim away from them and that one day a week was too much anyway.
Finally, I like Dr. Price. I find him a decent teacher and funny. He reminds me of Mick Petris (McPetris). Funny, they teach the same thing pretty much.

[Originally, published to Blogger on 8/31/11]

Xanga-August 29, 2006

Despite the fact that I missed three or four (out of ten) on my physiology quiz this morning, I feel slightly better about school. This may be because Rachel and I worked on our dog today and I know quite a few of the muscles! But it still sucks.
Today I am wearing a burgany t-shirt (which at one point after I was in the anatomy lab was on backwards! I ate lunch that way!), black ballet flats and a skirt that I made myself! Its tanish with burgany old English pastorial scenes and had red rick rack around the bottom. Its cute! But as I walked to school today I wondered why my ID was on my left hip since I always wear it on the right...my skirt had twisted and so badly that the zipper from the back was in the front. Ag.
I don't really know what else to say. I forced Joe into joining and he said that I was a good writer. Didn't he know that? I mean I hate to toot my own horn or anything but I thought that was a given...We're going to fight over being good writers now.
Additionaly, yesterday Dallas Wilson talked to me. It wasn't a conversation by any means nor was it regarding something remotely personal such as 'How is your day going?' but instead about the dog leg I pulled from the bucket of formalin. It was the first time he has talked to me this year despite both being from De Soto, working at the dairy and being in some undergrad classes (and group projects!) together.

[Originally, published to Blogger on 8/31/11]

Xanga-August 28. 2006

Today I am wearing khakis, a white shirt and brown mules.
I HATE VET SCHOOL! And I havn't even taken one test yet...I have three quizzes this week but I'm not too worried.
I'll be quitting tomorrow or the day after. And maybe this is a ploy for sympathy, encouragement or something. And you'd be right but I don't think that its uncalled for seeing as that I really dislike everything right now.
[EDIT-Originally published to Blogger on 8/28/11.]

Xanga-August 27, 2006

Martha said that I should enter what I was wearing Friday night into a xanga entry. So we went out for dinner at Teller's and I wore a denim skirt, brown heels (see a post from this summer about them) and a short sleeved striped oxford. I am recycling clothes from the school week.
Joe came down and go to my house about 3am. It was pouring rain. Saturday, we wondered around downtown, I ran out to the dairy and then we went to see Snakes On A Plane. It was so horrible it was good. I recommend seeing it just so you can validly make fun of it later. Snake vision... Then we went home and watched some TV. Joe watched the DVD of Short Circuit while I went to bed. This morning we woke up late, ate Steak'N'Shake and the parted ways as I had to meet my anatomy group at one. We're not caught up yet but working on it.
Anyway, Joe and I had a wonderfully domestic weekend together. It only confirms that what almost a year ago was just someone I wanted to drunkenly make out with will be someone that I will probably spend the rest of my life with...Here's to getting drunk! And to Erica the matchmaker! And to pagen holidays!

[EDIT-Originally published to Blogger on 8/28/11.]

Xanga-August 24, 2006

Oh, and I forgot to lodge this complaint. It seems in all of my classes (except for anatomy which has its own problems) that I am missing a large chunk of information. Its like the professors don't know about it so they aren't bothering telling me. I would like some details please!

[EDIT-Originally published to Blogger on 8/28/11.]

Xanga-August 23, 2006

Well, today is day three of class! Yesterday, I wore a yellow striped skirt and a white shirt. Today, I am wearing dress khakis and a blue top with lace. The shoes-the same.
I don't have much else to report. Using a microscope causes me to have a headache and scrunch my face up like the hunchback of Notre Dame.

[EDIT-Originally published to Blogger on 8/23/11.]

Xanga-August 21, 2006

Well, the first day of school is going well enough and I think I will log each day by noting what I am wearing. I am wearing: grey dress pants, an striped button down shirt and black leather ballet flats. Its quite nice actually.
And silly me having signed up already to work on a study have been assigned to work twice this week. Luckily its with another person that knows what they are doing. (Honestly though I think I know at least 80% of what's going on anyway.) And also luckily enought I drew the 6pm-11pm shift meaning that I don't have to get up in the middle of the night. This is both Thursday and Saturday.
I really need a computer. So maybe tonight I'll call Dell and see what I can get.

[EDIT-Originally published to Blogger on 8/23/11.]

Xanga-August 6, 2006

I broke a tooth. Its a baby tooth too so it will probably just end up getting pulled and then I'll be ready to pull my bass boat with my IROC.
Anyway, this past week, my mom and I were at the Shetland Pony Congress in Lake St. Louis. It was long and hot. Wednesday, Tinkerbell won 6th of nine in her futurity class which was good. Then her and Cody sucked it up not placing in the next two classes.
Thursday, Dad picked me up and we went to Columbia to move me into my new apartment. Its nice with vaulted ceilings and a big bathroom. I am actually going to get some furniture and this place has AC!
Then Friday, we did some more showing. Friday night I was in charge of the youth olympics which basically consisted of keeping some kids entertained for two hours. So we played some lame games and then ate pizza then played a rousing game of kickball. When those activities officially ended, the kids still wanted to play kickball so I left my ball with them and laid out some ground rules (everyone gets to play, pick up the bases, trash, etc., watch for ponies, give me back my ball). Unfortunatly, very early on my ball was kicked and lodged itself into the rafters of the horse show arena where they were playing.
Saturday, we did some more showing and Nell showed in her jumping classes. She wrecked it in hunter but placed 9th which I was totally surprised at because there were like 13 in the class. In jumper, she went clean the first round but as we were leaving the course, I tripped and fell. You get disqualified if you or the horse falls on course. Luckily, I had cleared the cones! Because so many people had clean first rounds we had to go again for time. I went third or fourth and at that point had the fastest time. In the end though, I placed third losing second by...a TENTH OF A SECOND! The first place horse was like five seconds faster. It was a good class with 11 total ponies in it.
Today, I am hanging out and doing laundry before going back to my new apartment and hoping to at least get my bed put together. Tomorrow I am going to buy or at least put on hold my furniture. Hopefully, they still have the red couch I was looking at.
One of the days at the show, my mom dropped a fan on my head while I was asleep. It hurt.

Sarah Frei is alive and well...at least I think. She returned my phone calls finally only to get my voice mail. But I heard her voice! Or at least someone that sounds like her...
So I had written something about camping but that was about the time when my mom's Wal-Mart computer shot craps and died. So I'll try again...
I went camping last weekend with Joe and his family-his mom, Jackie, Casey, Scott and Gabbi. Joe had to work Friday night and then drove straight to my house arriving at 2:15AM. What a surprise! Then Saturday we woke up and drove to the Lake of The Ozarks were camping and boating fun was to ensue. When we got there, we found nothing but an abondoned campsite. Assuming that because it was daylight and heavily populated that bears hadn't attacked, we (after several garbled cell phone calls) wondered around until we found the marina where the rest of the crew greeted us on the boat. So we did some boating and ate lunch on the outskirts of Party Cove. Then as Gabbi, Scott, and Joe were going to ride on an inflatable raft towed by the boat, the boat died and we had to limp back to shore. That put everyone in a crappy mood.
We had a great dinner and sat around drinking. Eventually we went to bed. But because Joe and I didn't get to pick our tent's site, the rockiest steepest place was chosen for us. And when nature called, we both got trapped in the tent being unable to find the tent flap.
The next morning, we left early and bought some taffy. Joe hung out at my house and watched American Splendor. Then he left but blew a tire just outside of Booneville. Being the amazing girlfriend I am (everyone should be envious of Joe), I rescued him, bought him a new tire and a soda and then took him back to his car. Then I slept some more. I guess it should be noted that Joe spent half an hour on the side of th road calling me but I didn't hear my phone ring most of those times because I was asleep with  my head in my fan.

[EDIT-Originally published to Blogger on 8/7/11.]