Work has been so good about everything, letting me take off a week and offering to help pay my rent. Yesterday, Steve said to me if I didn't end up going to school I should just work here and take off a month at a time, go explore Europe or whatever I wanted to do ( Read more... )

( So, here was the plan. )

The stem cell vote in Missouri is a dead heat, and I'm going to feel quite guilty if it remains that way after all the votes have been counted. I didn't get off my ass and go to the courthouse to find out how I could get re-registered to vote in the town I moved to. In my defense, the courthouse is 7 miles away and open almost NEVER while I'm not ( Read more... )

I'm going to be on the road with my boss today, meaning they'll have to take care of the 1st of the month without me. It's always a hectic day, I haven't ever taken a 1st off of work since I started there fulltime. So I was gonna tell boss I couldn't go with him, but Shelley said "we're going to have to learn how to do it sometime!" and I'm like ( Read more... )

Well today was a shitty day. First we had a patient that's in kidney or renal failure (it's too sick to do the blood test we need to figure out which). I don't know this cat, but every case gets to me. This time it's so much worse because I recently lost a cat to renal failure. I just started crying as soon as I picked the cat up. Luckily I ( Read more... )

Lastnight I had the first nightmare I've had in a long time. It's all good though because it ended well. See, I was evacuating kids from a school that somebody had decided to bomb - and we were running and alluva sudden this helicopter came down. I'm freaking out a little 'cuz I don't know if this is the good guys or the bad guys, when this head ( Read more... )

I can't believe it's June already. Wow, I remember when summer months used to mean something. Freedom. Fun. I feel like such a rat race contestant. Even though I love my job. I mean, where else am I gonna get paid to hug dogs? But still. It's June!!! I can barely remember it being March ( Read more... )