Feeling really stressed lately, mostly under the surface where it's hard to get a handle on it. I suppose I have a fair amount of things to be stressed about.

( The state of the Gina )

Finally got sick. All the cool kids were doing it, so I figured I'd jump on the bandwagon. Sore throat yesterday and today, moving into a cough tonight with some stuffy nose and a temperature 2 degrees higher than normal. Awesome. -_- Mostly I'm annoyed that Ben isn't here to take care of me. Though having Mom here to take care of me would be ( Read more... )

I could never be an ophthalmologist... too many horrible eye problems just plain give me the willies. They don't make me want to throw up or anything, but they make me go "jesus fuck that is the stuff of nightmares!" (Yes, I wrote that in my notes during a presentation on eye disease yesterday ( Read more... )

Today is World Rabies Day. While only 3-4 people die of rabies yearly in the United States, at least 55,000 people die of rabies worldwide every year ( Read more... )

Three weeks into my second year of vet school and I've been busy, busy, busy. Not always in a productive sense, mind, but busy none the less. In the past three weeks I have ( Read more... )

My summer research is over. Huzzah! If anyone is really interested in what I did this summer I can send you the Powerpoint, ha, but I'm too tuckered to go into it any more today. Gave my presentation today and listened to everyone else's summer research presentations, which took ages. I still need to work on the paper, but I'm going to take a ( Read more... )

-- As wonderful as my trip home to Portland was, it did have one major downside: namely, the disappearance of my trusty point-and-shoot camera. ;_; I have taken literally thousands of photos with it, and many of them were quite good, but after tearing the house and cars apart several times my last few days there, with my mom continuing after I ( Read more... )

California earthquake #5 as of 15 minutes ago. 4.4 60 miles away, still enough to make me and my chair go back and forth for a few seconds. Oh California ( Read more... )

First icon I've made of myself in a long time... first one with short hair, even! I've decided it will be an excellent zen icon ( Read more... )

In addition to the delightfully awful day I had Thursday, Friday decided to toy with me by first putting my leg back to normal by midday and second by letting me have fun helping to run a garage sale with my fellow ZWEACC (Zoo, Wildlife, Exotics, Aquatics, and Conservation Club) cabinet members (I am the wildlife/conservation chair). I also ran ( Read more... )