Memorial Day

I hope many of you are having a wonderful memorial day... the day we are supposed to remember those who have served and died.

A friend of mine signed up for the military to train to be a corrections officer (jail guard....)

He's being sent off to Iraq once he's done with training in about a month. He signed up to be a corrections officer so he wouldn't be sent to Iraq. As I have already stated... I do not like the fact that we are over there. I won't get into it... but right now I had a very disliking to the government. End of story.

Anyway, I have to work today. Unfortunately we aren't allowed to let the dogs shit all over themselves....

I no longer have an ass...

because it was chewed out today.

Everyone got chewed out.


Grrrrrr....

Bored out of my freakin mind!

So not much going on since my last post a few hours ago except to say that I'm watching movies and vegging in front of the couch.

And well... I'm so bored I'm going to make some lists...

Some things I learned so far at college:
-the number of drinks you are limited to is however many you can down without throwing up
-you "waste" more money on food and drinks than you do rent
-never go out on a thursday or friday night unless it is out with your girlfriends
-the hottest guys aren't neccesarily the dumbest ;) (David....)
-"Talk Sex with Sue Jo" is one of the greatest shows ever!
-I love David Zachary Mokry with all my heart
-a B in organic chemistry is like winning/beating dave at risk
-I can never sleep in past 11
-sometime in the last year I have become such a girly girl
-After two semesters of organic chemistry I can finally draw the structures of some of the ingredients of my shampoo bottle.... strange.


Reasons why I love David Mokry:
-sweet, brutally honest, understanding, intelligent, knowledgable, funny, loveable and cuddelly, kind, gentle, loving and caring, know how to have fun, wise but yet child-like, hott, passionate, handsome, sexy
I could go on forever with this list...
-his calm, serene look when he's sleeping, cooing when I tick the back of his arm and head and back, sweet kisses, tickles me, he's ticklish hinself

I miss him so much when he goes home to the badger state.

Things I've considered doing with my life other than becoming a vet:
-interior designer
-landscaper
-arcitect
-astronaut
-fire fighter
-police officer


Since the making of this post I have let my sister cut my hair... it's REALLY REALLY short!!! I love it! Hopefully Dave will approve. :)

Line of Command

As much as I love working at the animal hospital... some times it just gets so stressful.

There is always DRAMA!!! My goodness!

I personally don't have a lot of problems with anyone. Sure there are some things about people that irk me, but I don't complain.... much.... to anyone but a few select people.

So here is some of the drama currently happening:
So Dr. W is one of the relief doctors that comes in on mondays and wednesdays. She is the weirdest and most.... there isn't even a word to describe it. Here are some examples:
1. She tells a tech something to do with a cat or dog and then completely leaves them all alone to do it. Umm...that's not right.
2. She makes the worst diagnosis for every case.
3. She's LAZY!!!!

These are just a FEW things worng. And another relief doctor, Dr. H, is the greatest ever! And they are firing her.... because she only works one day a week. Something isn't right here.

I thought having a professional atomosphere, which the vet has always tried to uphold, means everyone has respect for everyone... whether you like it or not. Not happening with this situation.


I always try to stay out of the drama (but I do want to know what is going on...). However, I seem to have found so drama myself. I am not lazy when it comes to work. If someone asks me to do something I try to do it to the best of my ability. Yesterday (Saturday) was soooooo busy!! Saturdays are always busy. However, one of the receptionists did not show up for work. So alot was backed up when one of the techs went to help out up front (on her own accord... it is not her job to do that). Around 11, the kennel needed to be started and we were all very very busy. So I was instructed by said tech to go down to the kennel with another inexperienced tech (side note: Yes, I am still inexperienced even though I have been there a while. I am not full time.) to clean. We walked the dogs, cleaned their cages, and cleaned the runs. Because it was so busy, I had to keep going back upstairs to help. I kept being dragged into rooms when I was about to go back downstairs to clean. All in all, I walked two dogs and double check the other techs work. (Side note: I have never done the kennels by myself before, so I didn't know everything that was needed to be done.) The grates and dishes weren't cleaned and floor not mopped.

Ok.... I take some of the responsibility for over looking those things. But said tech NEVER checked up on my work... NEVER!! And when she came back in later that night to do treatments and such... she claimed she was there for over 3 hours cleaning and shit. I'm sorry, but had you checked on me, an inexperienced tech who was never really "trained" about kennels other than walking dogs and cleaning cages, and told me what else needed to be done. I would have done it. But you do NOT need to call one of the other techs to complain about it. Call me... it was "my" fault anyway. One of my friend techs forewarned me that said tech would be "talking" me about. I doubt she would tell the head tech though because she never checked up on me and she would get talked to about that... but whatever. I hate drama... I really do.

Rocesa?? sp

Ok for the past few years I have aquired some kind of bumpy, red rash on my face that really never seems to go away except when I put this cream on my face. At first I thought it was just a reaction to my make up....

then it seemed to happen whenever I stressed out or over exerted myself.... now alcohol worsens it (dear God!!!!)

Online it says that exposure to sun makes it worse as well (and spicy foods.... another thing I really like....). So far that hasn't happened. I think I'm going to make an appointment at the UHC when I get back to athens. AARRGG!!!

Everyone at work and my family has finally said something about it.... guess it's time huh?

I FINALLY heard...

from said doctor....

Apparently there were many people who applied for the job... only two were given interviews and one of those two got the job....

fuck.


Guess I should have asked if there were anymore openings.

I went to work today to pick up my paycheck and sign up for working and the such. Dawn and Amy were not surprised I didn't get the job because the vet school is so fucking political. You have to know people... connections. I feel like I'm in Jane Autsen's books where you have to have connections in order to do well in society... guess it's along the same lines.

Anyway, they are letting me work and take off since I didn't get the chance to go home.

Here is my schedule
Tues (tomorrow)-Saturday 6-1 (ACK!)
Sunday (whatever time...)
Mon and Tues uummm... it was either 6-1 or 8-4
Monday-friday 8-4
Saturday
Monday and Tuesday (8-4?)

Then school starts again and I'll be job searching....

Here are a list jobs I'll take:
vet tech
doctor's office
denstist office
chiropractor's office
bartending

list of job I won't take:
waitress/server
fast food
(hosting.... maybe)

RIP Snowflake

This past week, another beloved cat of mine and my sister's, Snowflake, died from cancer and a severely infected mouth.

We will miss the queen bee. We will, however, not miss her foul smelling breath of death (had to put that in there...). We will miss her lovey cuddeliness (sp?) and her snippiness.

Her waking up in the middle of the night howling/screeching will be missed as well.

She was a beautiful white kitty.

I remember when she was really fat and came rumbling up the hill when we called her for lunch or dinner. I remember loving on her and giving her baths.... all the lovely scars I still have. She was always silly when she got into the cat weed (aka cat nip).
I love her and miss her.

Sweet and Sour

The sweet:
Grades for Spring Semester 2006:

Organic Chemistry B (HELL YEAH!!!)
Ochem Lab A
Biochem A
Physics A
Poul Seminar A
AESC Seminar A

Term GPA: 3.79
Overall GPA: 3.78

Oooh Riight!!! gigitta gigitta! (or however you spell it)

Now for the sour:
I still haven't heard from said doctor of last post. I'm getting extremely testy. I called today and left a message for him. I also went to his office to find that he was not in today. WTF!!!

I was told I was going to have an interview so I want my FUCKING interview damn it!!! I don't care who I have to kill or push down! I WILL succeed!!!! GGRRRR!!! I'm going to call tomorrow again...... a lot. I don't care if I'm overbearing. I'm going to be jerk about it... until I get to talk to him that is... hehe.

Then I will just smile and nod and brown nose my way in.

If I don't get the job then I'll call work and tell them to put me on the schedule. And I'll ask for a raise.... and a recommendation.

Problem??

Okay... so last month-ish we had this doctor come into the pre-vet club meeting to talk to us. He works in the physiology and pharmacology department, which currently I am interested in. I sent him an email stating my interest in working in a laboratory to gain research experience. This month, he FINALLY replied saying that he has a job opening. I replied with my resume attached...

I haven't heard a THING and the job starts on Monday. I was supposed to go home to alabama to spend some time with my mom and dad.... now I won't get to see them until August because I've been waiting for a reply. I'll tell you why: I decided to give said doctor a call. The secretary contacted him and told me that he would contact me for an interview. This was on Tuesday...

it is not Thursday and I haven't heard a peep from him... not even an email!!!

I emailed him today.... still no reply. I'm going to give it until tomorrow. Then I'm going to call this other number I found on the Vet School website. I hope this one will lead directly to him or to a different secretary because that other one just had the worst attitude problem with me.

I'm going to be really pissed if I don't get this job because I just cancelled at work AND I have wasted quite a few days here. I want to be home with my parents so that they can buy me stuff I need cuz I have no money!!!!!GGRRRR!!!

Fucking amazing!!!

I feel like I did pretty good on my ochem final. I calculated i needed an 85 out of 130 to get a B.

I JUST MAY have pulled it off. We will see when grades are released. hehe!!!

Now... I'm going to relax with a drink and a movie. :)

hehe!!!

BAH!

I think I've studied so much for this freakin final my brain has over loaded and has completely shut down. Too bad this fucking ochem final is in T minus 4 hours. I'm taking a long break from it all, and around 5 i'll pick it up again.

I'm going to pick up my biochem test 4. I'm sure I got an A on it, and so an A in the class.

So grades thus far:
Biochem A
OChem lab A
Poul Seminar A
AESC Seminar A

Now just awaiting for organic chemistry and physics. If worse comes to worst those grades will be C and B. I believe I would still have above a 3.5 GPA, which is good for the application.

As for the jobs I have applied for (the Athens Vet Surgery Center and the Laboratory Assistant). I haven't heard anything as of yet. I'm just sitting around twiddeling my thumbs..... and biting my nails. I REALLY hope I get one of these jobs. If I don't hear anything about the lab job after the weekend I'm going to assume I didn't get the job. I do remember his lecture to the pre-vet club though. He said that he didn't get a job and went up to the professor and confronted him with why he should have hired him and such.... he got the job as well. I may do the same thing. *crossing fingers*

Finals...

Ok... so I have two finals to take. Amazing right? One being organic chemistry and the other physics I. So I think I got the physcis in the bag ... even though I haven't done anything for it in the past two weeks.

Organic.... organic... what a thorn in my side!!! I'm getting my first C. I haven't made a C since like... elementary school!!! This sucks...

Good bye to my hopes and dreams of getting into vet school during my junior year... BUT! Alas, Dr. Brown, a docotor at the vet school doing research and who is also part of admission committee, has finally replied to an email asking about summer work. There is a position open at his lab. I've applied...

one problem... it starts may 15.

I was supposed to go back to work at the vet then....

Hmmm... problem yes...

I hope work understands that this is a once in a life time chance.

Now this is all IF I get the job.