Two weeks to go!

It's harder than you think to keep up a blog, especially when there are approximately three hundred and fifty-four things going through your mind at any one minute. Here is a sampling of that approximation:

* Two more weeks of school! Nevermind that finals take up two weeks after that. There are only ten days left of going to classes. I can't believe the semester has gone by this fast. Doesn't bode well for the next thing on my list...

* Christmas break! Almost three whole weeks of no classes, no studying, no worrying about school-related things. Three whole weeks where I am within reasonable driving distance to the people and places that I love, eating awesome food, sleeping in and catching up with everyone and everything. Christmas is one of my top three favorite holidays (Thanksgiving and Fourth of July are the other two) and I literally cannot wait to be driving through neighborhoods looking at the lights, helping decorate the tree and listening to annoying Christmas music on the radio.

Anyway, I'm off to study some more. Can't forget about finals :(

Joys of the long weekend.

Remebrance Day (the Canadian version of Veteran's Day) was this weekend, giving us a third day to our weekend. Danny and I met up in Portland, Maine and had a great time. Granted, I spent most of Friday and Sunday driving but the day and a half total of seeing Danny made it worth it. I don't think I realize how much I miss him until I'm with him. He really is a great guy. We visited the local (huge!) mall as well as a historic-esque region called Old Port. There was a good amount of stuff to do but I didn't want to rush around and cram stuff into the day, so we just moseyed (moseied?) along. I bought a really pretty scarf in one of the stores. The best part (besides seeing Danny) was getting a burrito from my beloved Chipotle. The down side was that I spent a total of two and a half hours crossing the border this weekend. Ugh.

In other news, I'm making an effort to lose some weight, so I went to the gym for the first time in forever today. I went during lunch time because it's the only good time for me to go; don't want to wake up early, can't stay late because I have to let Ella out. So that's the plan.

First Snow!

So this is what I woke up to this morning:

Granted, it isn't a ton of snow by any means, but the fact that there was visible white stuff on the ground was fun to wake up to. Although I kind of had an idea there might be snow on the ground since I heard it coming down all throughout last night. I think it's mostly an icy/sleet component, anyway, and most of it has melted but it's been flurrying all through the morning. A "happy November" from nature, I guess.

The inclement weather has given me reason to stay inside where its warm and I can wear my PJs all day. This is also good because it's forced me to start going through my physiology notes, which I've admittedly been putting off over the course of the week. Ever since midterms finished and I did well on them, I don't have as much motivation to be diligent with my notes. Which doesn't seem like a big deal right after midterms, until you look at the schedule and realize there are only four weeks of class left! How the heck did that even happen!? And then I remember that I haven't booked tickets to go home for break yet and I need to start thinking about Christmas presents and cards and then I feel a little overwhelmed. But feeling overwhelmed is good for motivation, I find, so it's not too bad.

Anyway, back to the books!

So much to do!

Even with midterms behind me I still feel like I have a bunch to do. I'm caught up on about half of my notes from lectures during midterms - need to add a little to histology and immunology and all of physiology but done with productions. Also need to do the immuno assignment. I'll feel better when I'm all caught up. Grades have been coming back and I've been doing well, which makes me really happy. Anatomy came back a lot better than expected, too, which was so nice. I worked really hard to cram all of those muscles into my head! The downside is, finals are in like, five weeks! Eek.

I'm going to resume going to pathology rounds, since I missed a couple for various reasons the past few times. I think clin path is today at lunch so I'm going to plan to go to that instead of waiting until the first class at 1:30pm. There was an equine fieldtrip today which probably would have been fun to go to, but I'm glad I'm taking the time to get caught up with notes and such.

Also, Ella update. The vet I took her to thought her hookworm never got entirely cleared up - apparently it's more difficult to get rid of than other parasites. So he gave her a round of Flagyl and an Interceptor tablet to take on top of her regular Heartgard. She seems to be feeling perkier the past couple of days so we'll see.

This is a really discombobulated post. Sorry :\