snowing
Thursday began with a relatively warm morning before an unexpected downpour of snow coated everything in white. I was the only person in the office to bring a heavy coat, which also made me the warmest person walking through the parking lot - an important detail given that I had parked up the road, down a hill, and two lots over from the veterinary hospital. A woman in the radiology department went online to check the forecast for the afternoon, and the image that came back was a big, white cloud that looked to be either exploding or heaving in spasmodic fits over our location on the map.
Included below are two photos from outside the vet hospital earlier today - the first taken at 3:00 pm and the second at 4:00 pm. They're both thumbnails, so click to see a larger version of either one.
One of the back-up receptionists in the office answers the phone by letting the caller know that they've reached the "veterinarial hospital" -- which can sound very similar to "venereal hospital" if you're not paying attention. What compounds matters further (in either a comic or disturbing way, depending on how you view this sort of thing) is that the hospital also contains an 'exotics' department. Because what 'veterinarial' hospital doesn't have an exotics department? Oh yes, and this was also the department that I showed one of my flatmates on her birthday. How is that for fun?
Actually, a pair of Australian sugar gliders were admitted to the hospital that day as well. Now that would have been an interesting sight to show my flatmate ...
