this was kind of fun

http://www.mensa.org/workout2.php?

and i remembered that i always sucked at word scrambles.

worst cases of this week

and the week's not quite over! but can i top these? we'll just have to see.

natural selection does not work in humans. i blame welfare. i see an alarmingly high amount of people like this on emergency. they never come out during the daytime, always at night, and they never have money.

so this one shouldn't even count as a case, but it's a stupid story anyway. yesterday at 3:30 in the morning, i got a special delivery of baby mice. it wasn't totally unexpected though, about an hour earlier i got a call from some lady in a frenzy becaue she found a nest i her closet. i told her over the phone that if she really needed to get rid of them she could bring them in the morning (and we'd probably feed them to the raptors), so just put them in a box until then or leave them where they are. but she was convinced that these guys would chew through anything and she absolutely didn't have anything they couldn't escape from.

then she showed up with these mice in a *glass fishtank* and the little guys didn't even have their eyes open yet.

i can understand being a little freaked out to find mice in your house, especially in a closet, but does it really warrant a huge ordeal in the middle of the night? and why are you going through your closet at 3 in the morning?

tonight i got a call about someone accidentally dropping their bed on their puppy's head. yeah, i had to ask twice so verify that that's really what they said. a little background, this dog was just in last week for acetaminophen toxicity because he got into some children's tylenol. a couple hundred dollars later (most of which they haven't paid)... the puppy is rummaging around under the bed and oh, finds some more children's tylenol that no one bothered to clean up. then the struggle trying to lift the bed up and get the dog out results in an end of the bed getting dropped in just the right place.

i think she's going to be ok, lucky for them because they can't afford extensive treatment. and i think we got her to ralph up any pills she ate. she's got to have a killer headache though; she even had a seizure after the bed-dropping happened.

i secretly think the olympics are stupid

yeah, that's right. sorry to all you guys who have worked so long and hard to prove you're the best and your country's the best and all that. you're doing very important work out there, didn't mean to offend you.

so it's been another couple of weeks of nothing but work, and i'm very excited for friday morning when i leave for my little vacation to vegas. i'll be reunited with my dear amber who i haven't seen for nine months and we will together conquer sin city for a few days. oh yeah. look out celine dion, here we come (not to your show, though).

reunited with hippies and books

we finally found the only place around that appears to have interesting live music. oh, it's been way too long since i've seen hung out with wierd dudes in tye-dye getting down to the extended breakdown of a jam band. the band we saw was called frame of mind and they were your stereotypical jam band, entertaining though.

i finally sound normal when i talk (i think). hooray!

i've been trying to read more things unrelated to veterinary medicine lately. it's working out pretty well, i've managed to read a couple of pretty good novels recently (well, i'm pretty much impressed by anything at this point because i'm just excited to be casually reading things again). and it's turned out to be a great way to procrastinate. i think i'm going to go do some reading right now...

narcotic-induced peace

leo's owners came to take him home today, hooray! they were so excited.

so i finally got fed up with the throat thing not getting better and went to the doctor yesterday. he told me that i should rest my voice as much as possible and get a lot of sleep....not really sure how i'm going to do that. oh, and if the problem lasts for about three weeks, then i should come back. very helpful. actually what was helpful was the cough syrup with codeine. now i can at least sleep.

state of the union address last night...same old crap mostly...amusing to see that someone still hasn't learned how to prounounce "nuclear." also female senators in boxy, hot pink blazers...not a good idea.