My friend Eddie, while I was standing in his PBL group room bemoaning the fact that my group is stuck in "the closet," the corner room with no windows to the hallway ( Read more... )

Usually I only get the boring kind of spam in my spam folder. "INCREASE UR SIZE" "FINANCIALE DIFFICULTYS?" "TRY NOW!" This one was a pleasant surprise...

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A rude cocker spaniel overwhelmingly conquers a sheriff, or an imaginative dolphin seldom trades baseball cards with a cocker spaniel. The greedily skinny blithe spirit ( Read more... )

My apartment building, being in Southern California, has open hallways between apartments. Doing my laundry the other night led me to discover a number of interesting insects clustered around the various lights -- a grasshopper, a praying mantis, a true bug of some kind (they've got a certain shape; other "bugs" are just insects, but these guys ( Read more... )

...well, maybe I can post one picture from today.


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This past week I've taken a few bird walks around the neighborhood after getting off work. Today yielded Yellow-rumped Warblers, Bushtits (I found another nest! and probably freaked out the neighbor in whose yard it was in by standing there staring at it for five minutes), House Sparrows, House Finches, American Crows, American Robins, Rock ( Read more... )

Browsing through my old documents, found this: minipersonalstatement.doc

As a future vet student, I will bring my thirst for knowledge, my yearning to improve my skills, my formidable sense of humor, my love for animals, my love for people who own animals, and my dashing good looks to the university.

Really that's all there was to it.

Friday night Ben was falling asleep and I was getting ready for bed when I heard Butterfinger meowing at my window. I'm in the basement so it's just a matter of jumping into the little well to get into the window for a passing kitty. "Hey, Ben, look at this, this is funny," I said because I'm always amused when a fat cat comes up to the window to ( Read more... )

So yesterday, between the golf-ball sized lumpectomy, the spurting artery, the cats with bloody diarrhea, and the anal glands, the day's young relief vet and I got to talking. He's a very funny guy and curses frequently (for a professional, anyway), and he likes X-Files and wants to be Mulder for Halloween, and was a Mormon zombie (complete with ( Read more... )

One: I wonder why after 10 hours of consecutive standing my legs and feet don't feel that tired, but my upper back and shoulders KILL me.

Two: I got to pluck cat testicles today.

I am totally wearing a ring right now that has a miniature pair of working handcuffs on it. It's pretty badass. And the best part? It was only fifty cents.

Yeah, I'm hot. XD