This week has been really long for me. Its been crazy stressful and emotional. I've pretty much been willing to cry at the drop of a hat. Its partly the stress, partly the lady illness.
But now school is out and I can reflect on all that summer brings.
But first, let's recap finals.
Friday, we had finals in emergancy and critical care and in surgery. I had passed the two graded surgeries and only needed like a 50% on the comprehensive test. I missed like three. So that was cool. I passed surgery! And emergency and critical care-I think I had an A going into that final. Maybe not. The class had a messed up grading scale and whatever my A was, it was very close to the cut off. And I got lower on the final than I needed dropping myself into the next lower grade. Oh well. I didn't really study as hard for that final as I needed too and resigned myself to that grade.
Monday, we had an open note small animal medicine final. I had frantically worked all weekend trying to solve the twenty four cases that they had given us in advance. The test was much harder than I had imagined it to be but pulled a C out of it which is about normal for me and locked in the C in this class.
Tuesday was the equine final. Despite having been around horses since I was five, I still can't determine lameness unless the horse is dragging its leg or something equally as severe. And I had made piece with this. Except on the final there turned out to be like seven lameness videos and I got only a handful correct. I had a B after the midterm and hence going into the final. I knew what I needed to keep said B. And missed it by ONE POINT! One fucking point! One point because I didn't read a question about quarter cracks well enough. ERR!
Wednesday was the last day of finals and of school. We had two finals-a surgery test and a honking food animal medicine final. The surgery test went well scoring only slightly lower than I normally do and finishing out the class with a B. I really like surgery and think that my grades adequatly reflect so. I easily could become a surgeon but hopefully not a cocky one. And then food animal medicine, which relied heavily on some clinical pathology that I didn't remember. I got a B on the final but missed the A in the class by ONE FUCKING PERCENT! And then yesterday, I found out that we got some points back and that was enough to give me an A in the class! Woo!
So to finish it up, it looks like it will be one A, two Bs, two Cs and a pass in the actual surgery lab.
So how do a bunch of vet students celebrate being one summer and one block closer to clinics! Drinking of course! And ignoring the rest of your class to have your own party and not going to theirs.
Amberle kindly hosted a party at her Providence Hill apartment. Everyone cool showed up for some major boozing. I polished off two and a half bottles of Boone's Farm. (I had bought only two; Joe went on a run for us.) We were loud and screaming and ranting and raving and drunk. We complained about school, classmates and professors. We talked about sex and who was going to get some-not me, I have lady illness, which brought a laugh to everyone. Not Kevin, though he did proclaim that he can get a distance of six feet when masturbating. I think a little more booze in everyone and we may of seen something that we regretted. Anyway, there are pictures on facebook if you care to see them. Nothing too bad, just a bunch of drunkys.
And how does summer begin? With me taking my car into the repair shop for an oil change and state safety inspection. Which ended up costing me $750! So I apparently have been driving a death trap. My car wouldn't pass safety inspection because the muffler was leaking and because the front brakes were shot. And even though they could pass it, the back brakes were about shot too. And the front tires needed balencing, but I knew that. And something else was broken, which I also already knew and actually had the parts to fix but haven't been able to go back to DeSoto to have Jerry do it.
So after looking at like four estimates from Meineke, I settled on fixing the front and back brakes and the muffler. In addition to the oil change, tire balencing, and inspection. $750. On my Discover card. I should be getting some cash back bonuses from that. And when they pulled the back brakes, they found that my parking brake was shot too. It would be another $100. So I passed on getting that fixed and simply told them that I wouldn't park on any more hills!
I never made it to the DMV. Maybe Monday. I am excited for those new Missouri plates.
And because it was noon before I could leave, I missed my appointment with the relationship study person. I have that rescheduled for next week.
Riley also had to go to the vet for vaccinations yesterday. Andrea Miller was my student which was cool because I actually like her. She did a good job. Riley's temperature was 104 degrees though. We gave her ten or twenty minutes to settle down and the temperature dropped and she got vaccinated. We didn't however address Riley's weight as much as I would of liked. She's over thirty pounds! But I don't think that she's really all that fat. In fact, even though she weighed more than she did last year, I think she has a better BCS. She has more of a tuck to her abdomen. If any of my veterinarian friends want to look at her and evaluate her, I'd be cool with that.
Last night, Joe and I made lasagna. It was the best one that I've ever made. Joe helped too of course. It was really good.
Tonight, we plan on watching fireworks from my apartment. It'll be cool except for dealing with all of my neighbors.
Tomorrow, I head out to the fairgrounds for a horse show. I don't think I get to show since my mom isn't bringing any of our horses but I get to hang out and help with another lady's horse.
[EDIT-Originally posted to Blogger on 7/5/11]
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