MySpace-April 30, 2007-Poodles, Tax Refund, Weekend

Basically, MySpace ate my last entry so I break it down into the short version.
Tax refund-all of $13. I can buy a pizza. Maybe.
Poodles-People in Japan were buying sheep thinking that they were poodles. When I looked for an article about it all I could find was that it was a hoax. Anyway, I still think that there are people I know, even in my vet school class that would believe that a sheep is a poodle.
Weekend-It was good. We didn't do much.

[EDIT-Originally, published to Blogger on May 22, 2011.]

MySpace-April 30, 2007-Scary Monster Man

Joe always makes me listen to his crappy music. Not that I don't listen to crappy music because by most standards, I'm sure that it is. Anyway, he made me listen to this Tom Waits 'song' called Nirvana.

Not much chance, completely cut loose from purpose,
he was a young man riding a bus through North Carolina on the way to somewhere.
And it began to snow.

And the bus stopped at a little cafe in the hills and the passengers entered.
And he sat at the counter with the others, and he ordered, the food arrived.
And the meal was particularly good.
And the coffee.

The waitress was unlike the women he had known.
She was unaffected, and there was a natural humor which came from her.
And the fry cook said crazy things.
And the dishwasher in back laughed a good clean pleasant laugh.

And the young man watched the snow through the window.
And he wanted to stay in that cafe forever.
The curious feeling swam through him that everything was beautiful there.
And it would always stay beautiful there.

And then the bus driver told the passengers that it was time to board.
And the young man thought: "I'll just stay here, I'll just stay here."
And then he rose and he followed the others into the bus.
He found his seat and looked at the cafe through the window.
And then the bus moved off, down a curve, downward, out of the hills.

And the young man looked straight forward.
And he heard the other passengers speaking of other things,
or they were reading or trying to sleep.
And they hadn't noticed the magic.
And the young man put his head to one side,
closed his eyes, and pretended to sleep.

There was nothing else to do,
just to listen to the sound of the engine,
and the sound of the tires
in the snow.

[EDIT-Originally, published to Blogger on May 22, 2011.]

MySpace-April 28, 2007-Completely Random...As Usual...

At Open House, these two girls who were probably between 13 and 15 were petting on Nell. They were facinated by her mane. They just thought it was beautiful and soft and so pretty. Granted, Nell does have a beautiful mane that is all of those things but what was asked next was weird and random. They then proceeded to ask me if that (horse hair) was what weaves were made from. I was clueless. Mostly, at first because I didn't know what they were talking about. But when I caught on, I told them no. Not that I really know for sure...

When Martha, Frei and I go to Ludo shows, we have the habit (that we've had since the beginning) of yelling during Tim Ferrell's solos and yelling for them to play Laundry Girl. I like to believe that if they hear this single voice or small group of voices yelling, that the know its me or us. I told this to Martha pretty sure that she was going to shoot me down for being dumb, but she admitted to thinking the same.

Yesterday was my anatomy test. The last test over large animals. This week we'll dissect a chicken and look at a pig. I really hope that I didn't mess up my anatomy test. All of my grades otherwise are going fine. Two Bs and a A at least. AND I beat one of those guys that thinks they are so smart on BOTH immunology tests and the latest epi test!

I'm in St.Joe and as usual Joe and I haven't done much. We went out for lunch and then drove around some. I bought a book about grocery lists-think that is more like the PostSecret books though. I just started to look through it and laughed and laughed. The odd thing-many of those lists could easily be mine-misspellings and random vagueness included.

My mom loves Lester Holt-the weekend Today show host. As Joe put it, she's got jungle fever. Weird.

I had editted this a little while ago an included that yesterday afternoon I went the  dairy farm to palpate some cows. I went on and on about how much I miss working out there and what my days there consisted of. I'm not going to do that again but suffice it to say that I really miss cows and most days would rather be at the farm than in school. That could change if I'd ever actually learn about cows.

[EDIT-Originally, published to Blogger on May 22, 2011.]

MySpace-April 24, 2007-Help Wanted-

Wanted: A best friend to get me through vet school. Must teach me anatomy, listen to my rants and raves about school, classmates, teachers, boyfriends and whatever crosses my mind. Must think I am funny and that most of my ideas are pretty good. Must like ice cream and buffets. Sharing jellybeans to prevent 'JellyBean Envy' a must. Must be willing to talk about everyone behind their back, even 'friends'. Can't sit next to me in class and studying together is optional.
Well, despite the fact that I am sure to stay friends with Tiffany, she is no longer in my vet school class. And I plan to be very selfish about this and think that I am the one having the trouble not her. Now I completly realize that her absence has nothing whatsoever to do with me and was something that she had to do for here own sanity and well being but WHERE IS MY BEST FRIEND?! WHAT AM I GOING TO DO? This is a fucking shark tank and now I have a huge gaping wound bleeding all over the place. The sharks are going to get me...My plan-stay low for the next three years, come out swinging when needed and in the end have everyone think that all along they've been my friend. (Friend loosely translated to-she talked to me once and it wasn't to yell at me or punch me.)
Josh might have to be that new best friend I'm looking for. Gotta love that beard!

[EDIT-Originally, published to Blogger on April 26, 2011.]

MySpace-April 23, 2007-The Vet School Doesn't Trust Us

 But first, I would like to express my disappointment. I just got the election results for Mule Club and was as predicted voted out. However, it was far from what I would of liked it to be. If Josh had won, I would of been disappointed but known because of what he does for the club that he deserves it. However, I feel that popularity far outweighed good decision making. Has Jesse ever even been to a single Mule Club event? Oh, well, this just means that I can skip out on Saturday's event and go see my boyfriend...unless Sarah despratly needs me.
Anyway, the vet school doesn't trust us.
Why? Well, since January they've been changing how we take tests on computers to make it harder to cheat. Our thoughts on this is 1)Why do you keep changing something that was hard to get used to in the first place? and 2) You wouldn't have to change things if you didn't let cheaters back into school.
Supposedly this girl got kicked out last year for cheating and threatened to sue her way back in and will be joining our class at the end of this block-in a few weeks.
Anyway, they have gone from obvious blocks of color to mark right and wrong answers to smaller text and graying things out and putting the correct answer in italics. Then today they had filters on the computer screens so you can't see the person sitting next to you but still the people in front of you which I would worry about more. And we had to sign and turn in our scrap paper. That's dumb.
I know that no matter what there are some people that will cheat even when you've worked so hard to get to this level but maybe they just cheated their way here too, but it hurts the honest hardworking people too.
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[EDIT-Originally, published to Blogger on April 26, 2011.]

MySpace-April 22, 2007-Vet School Open House

Yesterday was Open House at the vet school and everyone and their brother came from Columbia. All of the first and second year students were expected to work it in some capacity. There was alot of trouble because (as it is every year) its not very well organized. You'd think that for something as big as it is and that's been going on for like 20 years they'd have a professional to organize it and not students. But as every year, what looks like its going to be a cluster fuck turns out all right.
My mom and dad came for the day bringing two mini horses for the petting zoo and the pony, Nell for the breed show. Nell let everyone pet her and was pretty well behaved. She was very excited and somewhat hard to handle for the breed show. I hung out with Mom and Dad for the day and got a sunburn. I spent a couple of hours inside hanging out with the mules too. After they left, I helped to clean up and then when home to lay on my couch not feeling so hot because of my sunburn. Be low is a link the the Channel 8 News. They did a story that included shots of  the minis in the petting zoo and Nell's nose. In the slide show, there is a picture of me and Nell standing there. And if that doesn't work, try the other link and you'll kind of have to look for the story.
Vet School Slide Show from the News If that didn't work, try this one.
Now off to maybe buy some clothes and just end up hating myself.

[EDIT-Originally, published to Blogger on April 26, 2011.]

MySpace-April 17, 2007-I'm With The Ferret...

Despite it being Tuesday night, I thought I'd let you know about the weekend. Friday, I got home late from school because I didn't leave until I took a quiz. I also had to study for said quiz and by studying I also mean spending some time sleeping in the library. I got a B on the quiz! Then I laid on my couch and watched National Treasure. I tried to motivate myself to go back to school to do more homework but couldn't. It was rainy and the movie was good.
Saturday, I woke up expecting to find snow but it was still raining. I had to help with the mules that morning but as I got into my car, Sarah Snyder called and cancelled the plans. So I spent more time on my couch until Frei called. After lunch, I motivated myself to go to school for some more homework knowing that I was going out that night. That night, Frei, Martha and I went to the Ludo show at the Blue Note. Our night started with taking Skeletor, Andrew's ferret to visit. For this we got to go backstage and into the basement of the Blue Note. It was cool! I've always wanted to do that. We hung out for a while and tried to sneak the ferret up the merch booth but totally got busted. Martha, Frei and I left to take the ferret home and ate some dinner before returning to the show. We had been put on the guest list-this was the first time I've ever been on a Ludo guest list in the entire time that I've known Ludo. Hard to believe but true. The show was okay and Martha made it out with a set list (as always! I don't think there's been many if any shows that we've been to that haven't resulted in us getting a set list.) and a drum stick. I went home and talked/yelled at Joe.
Sunday I practiced with my group for our presentation on Monday and then went to dinner for Rachel Ray's birthday. After that I studied.
Monday, I had a test in immunology-and totally rocked it! A B! And our presentation went really well.
Today, I yelled at a classmate. I was mad and on the lady illness so I'm a little crazy. Its okay though. I stood up for what I believed was true and told her what I thought. (I may have resorted to personal attacks however. Oh well. )
Tomorrow or later this week I'll tell you all why I think e-mail and the internet is killing society and why cell phones are killing bees...and eventually us.

[EDIT-Originally, published to Blogger on April 26, 2011.]

MySpace-April 16, 2007-I want a cat...

The last time Joe came down and saw my new goldfish, he said I had a problem. I didn't know what he was talking about! Just because there's a dog, rabbit and goldfish in a one bedroom apartment doesn't mean I have a problem. Goldfish shouldn't even be considered pets. He takes up just as much room as a vase of flowers, which by the way I haven't recieved in a long time! (Just kidding Joe, get off the phone with the florist.) And takes nothing to feed and change his water. His water gets changed more offen then Teddy's cage gets cleaned. I'm a bad rabbit mom. However, the goldfish does get pretty excited about me entering the kitchen.
Anyway, the main thing was that Joe was just saying that if I could get away with it, I'd have a cat there too. And I would. BUT I can't get away with it until one of the animals leaves. (Goldfish not included.) Namely, Riley. I keep telling my mom that I'd trade my dog for her Manx cat. They both are about the same size, shape and color. No dice.
Again, anyway, what brought this on? This morning when walking Riley, all the cats in the two story apartments were in the window sills in the sun. There's a black and white in the first apartment, a yellow tabby and a black in white in the next, no cats but two yorkies that Riley plays with in the 3rd, and a calico and another cat in the fourth. You see why I want a cat. All these adorable cats are in the sun mocking me when I have to walk my dog. They're so cute! I think I need to visit the blood donor cats again...

[EDIT-Originally, published to Blogger on April 26, 2011.]

MySpace-April 14, 2007-Big Announcement!

 May 1st, I will be announcing the dates of my vacation. That is all. Had you fooled into thinking it was something big didn't I? Ha!
Whoo! I just noticed that my blog just reached 2000 views! People do love me! Now that just makes me wish I had something more to say...

[EDIT-Originally, published to Blogger on April 26, 2011.]

MySpace-April 11, 2007

I think people think that I think I'm better than them. Don't we all think that about someone else at some point or another? Do I really do this? Is it really all this obvious? I'm worried. Fuck vet school for being so high school and for another three years of this bullshit. ERG.

[EDIT-Originally, published to Blogger on April 12, 2011.]

MySpace-April 9, 2007-The Rest of The Weekend

Saturday night, Joe and I watched Children Of Men. I baked a cake for lunch on Sunday and made flashcards about the nerves and holes of the skull. Sunday, Joe read the newspaper and I made lunch. Lunch was good except for the fact that after eating it Joe was promptly ill. I'm sorry! Joe went home and I sat on the couch faking doing homework for the rest of the night.
Joe and I like sitting around doing nothing. Riley likes it, too. Seemingly, being in each other's company is good enough. It made us wonder what other long distance couples do when they finally get to see each other. We can't help it if at times it seems we were married fifty years yesterday. That's how we roll.
No tests this week! Yea!

[EDIT-Originally, posted to Blogger on April 10, 2011.]

MySpace-April 7, 2007-Stuff...

So Joe finally got an entire weekend off and came to visit me! And it wasn't one of his roll in at 2:30am Saturday morning things either. He got here around 8, we waited for Tiffany to take her quiz (which I had taken at 6 and got a 100% on!) and then went with Tiffany and Steve for pizza and beer at Gumby's. Today, we went grocery shopping and then out for lunch at Joey's-a new seafood place I've wanted to try. It wasn't all that great. The food was really bland. And then we came to the library to study (well, I'm playing on myspace right now instead). On our way here, we passed by the mule team but it must of been a secret meeting because I didn't get an email about it. An 'I Love Dr. Dodam' party I suppose. I know you're getting mad Martha. And then I almost hit a guy on a bike in a cross walk. Not really. He didn't even stop when I was trying to go through the intersection. He has too yield to traffic too. He wasn't even riding the bike and he spit at my car. I flipped him off.

[EDIT-re: mule club]

[EDIT-Originally, posted to Blogger on April 10, 2011.]

MySpace-April 6, 2007-Parking Lot Drama

Last night, when I came home from doing Tons of Trucks with the mules, I was freezing cold. I had forgotten to wear my coat there. And I was sore from dealing with an unhappy Terry-too many little kids, too many honking horns-and from lifting the heavy harness. Anyway, I was dreaming of a hot shower before getting some studying done for my test this morning. However, when I pulled into my parking lot, who should be in my spot? Little white Jeep Wrangler-the same one I had ticketed but not towed on Sunday. What was I to do?
I took my shower and called the cops. An hour and an episode of Scrubs later, they showed up and started writing a ticket AND calling a tow truck for me. As we were in the parking lot doing this, two guys walk up to the car. The cop asks them if its theirs. Yes it is. Well, did you know its an assigned spot? Is it? And then I chipped in-yeah, it is. Its mine. You've parked there before. Oh, I didn't know. Then one guy to another-I told you not to park in the numbered spots. And then to the cop-are we going to get a ticket or something? The cop tells them its up to me and I tell him to write the ticket. He tells me he's cancelled the wrecker and that's fine because they are going to move it anyway. Then I tell the guys that I had them ticketed on Sunday and that obviously didn't mean anything to them so yeah, they were getting a ticket this time too. Then finally one guy to the other-are you mad? Yeah, I'm mad' They got the ticket and left and I did some studying. I was glad I stood my ground even though I came off as a mega bitch. But they were pretty little frat boys living off of mommy and daddy's money anyway.

[EDIT-Originally, posted to Blogger on April 6, 2011.]

MySpace-April 3, 2007-Studying

What does it mean when I get up to study two hours early and then when taking my nap between 6 and 6:30am, that I have some of the most vivid dreams ever? And even more what does it mean when they are about studying?
I need to start paying attention in class. I answer questions with completely wrong answers. Maybe if I pay attention more, I'd do better in school, too.
I didn't do great on my anatomy test. I didn't do horrible either. I guess overall, I was pretty pleased esp. considering the amount of tests we had beforehand.
So you may be asking yourself- What did Leslie actually learn at AVC other than how to drink? Well, I learned about the response to the Colorado blizzards, how to keep everyone in the loop about antibiotics and about a bovine STD. There were other things too.

[EDIT-Originally, posted to Blogger on April 3, 2011.]

MySpace-April 2, 2007-Spring Break!

Okay, so after I came home Monday morning from St.Joe, I officially began my own spring break. Monday and Tuesday didn't account for much. I got my hair cut, got my oil changed in the car, ran assorted errands (I love running errands or also as I call it to the laughter of my friends 'going into town'. I can't help that I've always lived out in the country.) and cleaned my house from top to bottom. Riley got in the way and got a bath too. I'm pretty sure I did some more things too and then got the satisfaction of crossing them off of the list.
Wednesday, my mom came into town because she was going to take Riley and Teddy home with her. We went to the casino in Booneville. Mom was only going to spend $20 so after 45 minutes came and found me because she had already lost it all. I cashed out with the orginal $20 I started with. We drove back to Columbia and did some shopping. I tried on a really cute dress but if I change weight in anyway it wouldn't fit, so I didn't buy it. I did buy Children of Men and can't wait to watch it again with Joe. Mom and I shared some McDonald's (her love for it is close to mine) and she went home with my animals. I then clipped and groomed the mules with Martha and Sarah Snyder. After that I went to dinner with Brad Scharf from undergrad. We went to Jazz and I had crayfish creole. It was good. We hung out and had some beers afterwards...Which now leads me to Thursday which means....

OKLAHOMA WHERE THE WIND GOES SWEEPING DOWN THE PLAINS....
I met everyone at the parking lot at 9:30am after having packed that morning. Someone asked me if I was the only girl, I thought I was and it was confirmed to which I cleverly responded-'well, at least I'll be the hottest one' There were nine of us riding down in the van and ten total going to the conference (Academy of Veterinary Consultants-mostly feedlot/beef vets). There were two first years, two second years, four third years and two fourth years. We went through BFE and caught I-44 outside of Springfield. Boy, do guys like to gossip. There were lots of jokes, talking about classes and professors and working for assorted vets. It was good times. We stopped at McDonald's in Buffalo. It started to pour when we got to Oklahoma and there was a tornado on one side of Oklahoma City. We checked into our rooms at the Mariott-I had a room to myself on the 15th floor and the guys (nine total) shared three other rooms. Then an open bar, dinner and a lecture. After that it was up to the hospitality room for some more free beer! I was living it up. We threw beers off the balcony and tried to hit an industrial fan. Do you know what it looks like when a full beer can hits an industrial fan? I do. Its cool. After the shut down the hospitality room, some of us went and bought beer at 7-11. This was how Pat was carded-'how old are you?' '24' 'Okay, its $23.98.' I however didn't get to return to a hotel room. I instead shared a cab with four guys and went to Brick Town-the bar district in downtown Oklahoma. We drank some more. I told a guy from a Budwiesier distributer that I thought he was hot. We called the same cab to pick us up and we got screwed over again. ($30 each way) We ate pancakes, hung out in a hotel room, and then I drunk dialed Joe. Friday was meetings all day. I took a nap in the afternoon getting up in time for dinner-more beef. Friday night I drank more free beer but chose to go to bed rather than go to the hotel bar. Saturday morning we sat in meetings and then checked out. I saved us a $110 by making the comment to the clerk that I had no shower pressure and the water in the tub had ran yellow. It did. The back into the van for the trip home. We chose to go north on I-35 into Kansas rather than 44 trying to avoid storms. When we stopped for lunch, gas and to allow me to buy some snowglobes for my collection, the guys oogled over a hot girl. I kid you not one of them said 'I'd pee in her ass.' Then we all groaned and told him he was gross. For about an hour outside of KC, we tried to catch up to a car of girls so one guy could moon them. I was told not to look at his junk and he sat next to me on the seat with his pants undone. He eventually gave up and mooned a line of cars. Ironically, when we were just outside of Columbia, we got mooned by a van full of teenage boys from Kansas. This guy returned the favor to them. I'm pretty sure that I've forgotten some great funny details but as they come to me, I'll add them as I think of them.

[EDIT-Originally, posted to Blogger on April 3, 2011.]

MySpace-April 2, 2007-Some randomness...

I saw a turkey this morning...crossing the road.
I almost rocked the endocrinology test...and sort of rocked the immunology test. Now just waiting on anatomy to kill me all over again. Two test this week-tomorrow and Friday. And that damn weekly quiz...
When I came home from Oklahoma, there was someone parked in my spot. I let it slide because there was an open visitor parking space nearby. But I did leave a note. The next morning when I left for DeSoto, the car was still there. When I got home from DeSoto, it was there too so I had to park next the pool and carry all of my heavy stuff alot farther than I would of liked. I was angry and called the cops. Three hours later the CSA came and wrote a ticket. Since now it was after 9:30pm (the CSA had been busy with accidents and then got lost coming to my house) and I had been asleep on the floor, I decided that I didn't want to wait around for the tow truck. I would simply let the ticket serve as a warning. Hopefully, it will be gone this afternoon otherwise, IT WILL BE TOWED!!! Sweet revenge...
Next edition...spring break!

[EDIT-Originally, posted to Blogger on April 3, 2011.]