97/66

Not exactly hypertensive. :)

I don't really know how accurate the thingy that you stick your arm into at CVS is, but that's a pretty typical BP for me so I'm inclined to believe it's in the ballpark.

Also, I walked 4.5 miles with the dogs yesterday morning, and my feet almost look like MY FEET again! I still had to wear my "stunt rings" yesterday morning, the fake wedding band set I bought for $9 in the mall to wear when I'm going to be doing something messy, or something like surgery where my rings will spend most of the day on my watch band in my pocket and I'm afraid they'll get lost, but I still want to wear them the rest of the day. They bear a moderate resemblance to my real rings, and I get compliments on them almost every time I wear them -- it's really funny, and I never know how to respond. I feel dishonest playing along, when someone's admiring my gumball-machine jewelry as if it were real, but I also don't want to respond to a compliment with, "Thanks, but they're fake. And really cheap." because that seems insulting. I usually just say thanks.

Anyway, they're maybe half a size bigger than my real rings, so they fit perfectly when my real ones were too tight. But by yesterday afternoon, my real rings fit again! So, maybe the lesson here is that I should walk several miles every day! I'm sure the dogs wouldn't complain. :)

In other good news, I scored some old Surgery exams this morning! We're all supposed to inherit a box of old tests every year from our buddy the year ahead of us, but I guess by 3rd year people aren't so into retrieving and filing their old exams. Plus there are a lot of electives, so you could end up having very few classes in common with your buddy, and therefore a gigantic, useless test box. For this one class, I figured old exams would be really helpful, if only for getting an idea of the format of the exam (one lecturer told us his section is M/C, and the other 11 lecturers haven't said a word), so I was really happy to see that one of my classmates had brought a few old exams to class this morning!

Other than studying for Surgery, the big thing I have to do this week is finish my business project -- I decided to do a tax-based project (whyyyyyyyyyy????????????) setting up an imaginary sole proprietorship to moonlight for extra income (FT job as a private practice vet), and which would also allow me to write off a bunch of school-related expenses (textbooks, computer, software, CE, depreciation on my car, etc). I actually do know why I chose this -- I figured it would be useful in real life, besides fulfilling the course requirements, since I'd like to get certified in veterinary acupuncture once I graduate and then do house-call acupuncture part-time. So I actually MAY use all this information in real life in a couple of years, which I figured would be better than doing some totally made-up project that I'm never going to think about again.

BUT, in real life, I will TOTALLY have an accountant do all the tax forms for me! I've already spent about 15 hours on it, and I'm so confused that I can't even tell how close I am to being done. MM has stopped asking me how much more I have to do on it, since I almost cried the last time he asked. :) From the examples the accountant who gave the relevant lectures used, it LOOKS like you can write some of the same expenses off multiple times, which doesn't make any sense to me. How can that be legal?!?

So, I keep starting and stopping and starting and stopping, because studying for Surgery is a lot more enjoyable since there's a defined endpoint and I actually know how to do it. Which isn't going to help get the project done!