3.29.2006

my "to do" list

1. update my blog. yes, i keep meaning to do this one, but i never seem to get around to it.

2. find a job. this one should be #1, but it's scary and keeps getting put off as well. i think i'm close to actually applying to a few though. hopefully more on that one coming soon.

3. finish powerpoint presentation. i have to speak this weekend, for pete's sake. i just can't seem to find the perfect pictures to add though.

4. get taxes done. well, that one's almost done, i just have to get it in the mail.

5. call mandy. i have to find out if ol' pregos is having morning sickness yet.

6. call tony. geez, he's finally back on this continent and i haven't even bothered. that's pathetic.

7. update flickr. actually, i just did that one so i can cross it off the list. who's the biggest nerd ever for posting pictures of cats on the internet?

8. call *insert name here.* damn this pacific time zone.

9. finish another powerpoint. this one's for my spring seminar, and theoretically i can still procrastinate for a few more weeks and be fine. but really, i should get my act together. oh that's a good one too.

10. get my act together.

11. go running. yeah, blew that one off today. the 100K is this weekend (i only have to do 5.6 miles of it, i don't know how many kilometers that is).

12. decorate jerseys for the 100K. we are giant dorks because we're going to have team jerseys with nicknames on them.

13. laundry. that one never really gets crossed off the list.

14. make a real list and complete the items on it. pat self on back.

3.13.2006

i'm sorry, but lucky has tumors everywhere. big ones.

every time i spend time on the "referral medicine" service, i have to see these cases that other vets send our way because either a) we have diagnostic/treatment capabilities that most practices don't have (ultrasound, endoscopy, CT, etc), b) there's something really screwy going on, c) someone wants a 2nd (or 3rd, or 4th) opinion. and a lot of the time that happens, we find cancer. it kind of sucks to always be telling people that their beloved companion has cancer.

so today i had an owner that came for an ultrasound, prepared to have the "C" word dropped on her, and i got to tell her that her cat DIDN'T have cancer! she was so excited. sure, he'll still be peeing blood for a while until they can get rid of the bladder stones, but at least it's not cancer.

hopefully tomorrow there won't be a rebound effect after my good fortune today.

3.08.2006

eew, my tonsil is gross

so i had this sore throat (really half of a sore throat, it was only on one side) that was bugging the crap out of me for like a week. and i couldn't stop palpating my big lymph nodes, i was becoming obsessive. so when i was getting worried that i was starting to get an earache in addition to everything, i finally went to the doctor on monday. when it was only my throat, i figured the doctor would just tell me to suck it up and wait it out again like the last gime. but then when it was my ear...

anyway, my ear was totally fine, he told me the pain was all referred from my throat. and he also told me i had a tonsillolith, or basically a inspissated/impacted wad of crap that was brewing in my tonsillar crypt and irritating everything. gross. anyway, i popped the sucker out and my throat feels great.

when i googled "tonsillolith," all these ads came up for fighting bad breath. apparently these little things are supposed to smell foul. geez, i hope i didn't have horrible breath for like a month when this thing was building up.

so my grossness was more yellow than this guy and also more round.

the moral of the story is, if your throat hurts and feels like there's something stuck back there, check out your crypt for a wad of nasty. eww.

3.07.2006

weeee! (or is it "AHHHHHHH!")

and this is what i feel like right now. so much craziness lately that i've barely had time to check my email. i haven't even posted since i've been back from vegas, which still seems like just last week, but definitely is much longer than that now. i did upload some photos onto flickr (that's what this one is from) if anyone wants to see me acting stupid. i had a great time though and reality was very difficult for the first few days after i got back. but that's all i can say about that; you know how that saying goes about the happening and the staying...yeah whatever.

i appear to be an emergency magnet this week. this weekend was crazy, usually monday is the really quiet night of the week and i took in three cases, i just hope the rest of the week slows down just a little because i have a bunch of stuff i need to get done. it's not like i can go home and do it after my shift, that's my valuable sleeping time.

they just got cable on the tv in the lobby here. if it's quiet on wednesday, i might have to sneak away and watch the project runway finale. i love that show! it makes me want to play with my sewing machine, but it seems that my time has been a little occupied for the past several months. i did have time to put together a little concoction last week (well, i made time by putting off other things i should have been doing, it felt great).

so chris and i finally decided to find another home for our sugar glider. the amount of time we spent with her was pretty pitiful, really. shame on us. so we thought she'd be better off with someone who could devote a lot more attention than we were. chris posted something on sugarglider.net and within two days we had found someone just over in moscow. i think this girl is exactly the type of person we were hoping to find so i'm hopeful that cinnamon will have a much more enriched and exciting life from now on. good luch cinnamon!

ok, better check on the icu. then it's down to business getting some work done! or maybe i'll just go to sleep.