Amazing how just ten days ago I was super sick, stressed and strung out. Ten days go by and I am home, healthy and happy (and alliterative).

Ten final exams are now behind me, the last of my veterinary school career. I imagine there will be more (hopefully) when I'm a resident in a concurrent Masters program, and there's still that pesky little licensing exam and (hopefully) a board certification exam in my future but I'm happy to be done with the vast majority of classroom sitting for the rest of my days. From all accounts, fourth year is so much better than any of the other years and I look forward to the change of pace.

I also moved out of my darling little house in the countryside and into a bright little apartment in town. I'm really going to miss being out there - it was peaceful, nice views, great landlords and (my favorite) a skylight in my bathroom. But the way my schedule is, it wasn't going to work out to rent for that last year. So I found a new place that should do the trick for the six months I'll be living there. Then, at the end of November, it's home to the US for good. It seems so far away and a little unreal to think that in only six months I can be home for the rest of ever.

The best thing about being home is getting to see my husband. He is such a trooper and I know it isn't easy for either of us having the other so far away for so long. I'm hoping to get to do a lot of fun stuff while I'm home on this little mini-vacation and also some special stuff for our first anniversary (including eating our wedding cake that has inhabited my parents' freezer for a year...heh). After all that, it's back up to Canada for rotations. I still can't quite believe it!