I was browsing some medical/pre-medical student blogs yesterday and noticed that a lot of them focus on admissions to med school and all that jazz. And I know some fellow vet/pre-vet bloggers cover the same topics. While I feel like I can contribute to that general conversation, I think it's kind of boring when the information is already all out there. I'm the sort of person that likes to know about the lifestyle when you're in more so than how you get in, so I try to make my blog more about my life than how to get to my point in life. It's probably worth an effort trying to tie things together for anyone that reads this blog looking for vet-centric content, but when you get into vet school it tries to consume your whole life. I try to fight that.

See? This post is getting boring already!

Anyway, my birthday was yesterday. All of the classes I had yesterday were my favorites, too, which is weird and wonderful all at once: diagnostic radiology, pharmacology and comparative med. Unfortunately I was definitely not in the mindset of paying attention but it happens. Danny sent me some gorgeous flowers at school that are now brightening up my kitchen (except they're kind of huge, so they take up a lot of space...) and I got calls, texts and emails all day from friends and family back home. It's nice to know they still think about me. My parents had a birthday party in my honor at their house - had my sister, her boyfriend and Danny over for dinner and cake; my sister sent me a picture :) I went to a house party that wasn't technically for my birthday but an extra thing to celebrate was cool with everyone. I didn't get home until 4:45am.

It is unfathomably cold outside today - the car thermometer read -10F on my way out last night - and since my furnace broke a few weeks ago I've been making due with a large space heater. Well, I had to turn that up and plug in my small space heater and even that wasn't enough, so I've got the oven on and open. Starting to feel right toasty in here :)

Plenty of stuff to accomplish this weekend: comparative med paper, fish health presentation and pharmacology assignment. And oh yeah, we select our internal rotation schedule on Friday - ack! I'm not really feeling like doing any of that right about now in my post-birthday daze but maybe I can convince myself later on today when my caffeine kicks in...