Back to my summer blog design :)

I was looking for something more summery than the "library" layout I was using, and this was the only one I could find. Which was the background I used last summer, too. Oh, well. At least I still like it. :)

My week off has been semi-relaxing. I studied like crazy all weekend for my Surgery final -- I spent the entire weekend in the library, which I haven't done since before Christmas! It was kind of nice, actually -- I really like studying there. And I got a good seat (my favorite seat, actually) both days. :) The exam covered thoracic, abdominal, head and neck surgeries, and skin flaps. I found some of the portosystemic shunt questions confusing, and I spent the most time of the whole exam debating between two answers to a question about the type of shunt most commonly caused by a patent ductus venosus -- it turned out they were BOTH wrong!!! I don't think that's ever happened to me before in vet school! Don't get me wrong, I get my share of questions wrong on exams. But when I can't decide between two answers, one of them is the right one. But not this time! I got a good laugh out of that when I realized it, how much time I spent on that question when I was going to get it wrong either way.

I ended up needing to do some more work on my business project after the deadline, and the secretary wasn't mailing them out to the course organizer until Wednesday so the Monday deadline turned out to be soft. So I spent the extra time and did a slightly better job on it than I would have done if I had handed it in on Monday. I also worked on the data entry for a paper that I'm "collaborating" on with one of the surgeons. By "collaborating", I mean doing brainless but time-consuming scut that will get me authorship, which my CV really needs!

Then I did my Pediatrics take-home exam, which took longer than I thought it would. Then I spent the rest of that day at my 35 week OB appointment (he was delivering a baby, so we hung out for quite awhile before we saw him) where we found out Anconeus is vertex!!! I was convinced he was transverse, since I can feel a large mass on the left and an appendage on the right, quite far away -- I assumed that was his head and foot. The OB said, when I mentioned it, "Yeah . . . . . . that's his ass." I like this guy. :)

Then I got a cold, and spent most of yesterday being a sloth (after I took the dogs for nice, long walks since it was gorgeous outside!) and waiting for the maintenance guy to come fix our leaking toilet. We watched Salt when MM got home from work, and ate ice cream. :) And went to bed relatively early.

Today I have to send out the Cardiology call schedule (I'm the rotation captain! Yay! That means I get the crappiest shifts and actually have to start my first shift before our orientation, so I'm not actually sure where I'm supposed to go or what I'm supposed to DO) and at some point go retrieve the truck from the mechanic, where it's getting hundreds of dollars of work done. Poor truck. It just needed its inspection; I didn't expect it to actually fail! I really like my mechanic, though -- I found him on the Mechanics Files of Car Talk's website, where he had lots of good reviews, and he's never tried to sell us stuff we didn't need. He's always good about telling me what he would do immediately, what could wait awhile, and what I can let go long-term. So although this is turning out to be a much more expensive visit than I expected, it sounds like it's all stuff that's worth taking care of.

So, that's my vacation week. :) I have watched several episodes of Grey's Anatomy (streaming on Netflix! I love that!) and taken 2 naps. I still need to collect all my cardiology notes from various classes and put them in a binder together, review my EKGs and echos, common drugs, listen to murmurs online, and look at the website the department put together for students to review during the rotation. If I finish that today, then I can have the weekend really, truly off!