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Hi, my name is Heather. I'm a 4th year vet student. 4th year... hard to believe! Time flies.

Heather's character 4th year
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LIFE-By-METER

My life reduced to a series of little meters.

Scooter-o-meter
Ratings meter

Billy-o-meter
Ratings meter

Cleo-o-meter
Ratings meter

school-o-meter
Ratings meter

health-o-meter
Ratings meter

sex life-o-meter
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apartment/living situation-o-meter
Ratings meter

money-o-meter
Ratings meter

RECENT GRADES

Equine
B

Radiology
A

Food Animal In-house
B

Orthopedic Surgery
A

Soft Tissue Surgery
B

Pet Health
A

Anesthesia
C

Diagnostic Medicine
B

QUOTES

Even in medicine, though it is easy to know what honey, wine and hellebore, cautery and surgery are, to know how and to whom and when to apply them so as to effect a cure is no less an undertaking than to be a [veterinarian].

Aristotle, 384-322 BC

Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can't help but cry. I mean I'd love to be skinny like that, but not with all those flies and death and stuff.

Mariah Carey, CPB (crazy psycho bitch)

Keep your wits about you.

Dr. Wally Cash, DVM

Work twice as hard and expect half as much.

Dr. Dan's Dad, both DVMs

Don't be screwin' around, you don't have the genetic potential.

What Dr. Dan's Dad said to Dr. Dan when he went to college.

I'd rather have a terrorist standing next to me than a Frenchman. (~15 min. later) Oh, I forgot about that, that's another reason I don't like the French, they eat horses.

Dr. Dee Griffin, DVM

In the book of life there's only two women, big ol' good ones and good ol' big ones.

Ice Cube, HipHopper

A virus can be useful to a species by thinning it out.

Dr. Karl Johnson, MD

Be a virus and travel the World! Free of ticket!

Dr. Sanjay Kapil, DVM

Now you can either stand around here eatin' jambalaya or you can come upstairs and eat my ass!

Brian Kinney, QAF Hottie!

I'm a McGriddle away from this being the best morning of my life.

Artie Lang, OCCG (overweight comedian, compulsive gambler)

Our scars have the power to remind us that the past was real.

Dr. Hannibal Lecter, CFB

No amount of genius can overcome a preoccupation with detail.

Marion Levy Jr, PhD

It's better to burp and bear the shame than not to burp and bear the pain.

Grandpa Martin, RIP

Well, I want to try everything in life.

When I gotta poop, I gotta poop.

Heather Rose Martin, CFG (crazy freak girl)

It gets right ugly.

Dr. Patricia A. Payne, DVM

If the present sucks, then look to the future.

I'm just here to be a person.

Rob Reed, Brainiac

If you eat your dog, make sure it is well cooked.

Peter Schantz, DVM Division of Parasitic Diseases CDC

Inch by inch life's a cinch, yard by yard life gets hard.

Dr. Steve Swaim, DVM

Think about it. Sometimes people are just destined, destined to do, what they do. And that's what it is. Now everybody dance.

Justin Timberlake, Hottie!

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Thursday, 23 March 2006



I feel like I'm just wasting my time being in the way

It just sucks that lambing is so slow. No one even came to pick me up this morning. I was ready to by 7:25 instead of 7am today since they didn't pick me up until after 7:30 yesterday. It was about 8am and still no one came to get me so the tech that was in my building called over to the sheep people to see where she could bring me. So when I got there nothing was really going on and then it was break time already. These people love to take breaks. They come in maybe around 6:30 or 7 in the morning and then take a break around 9 and then lunch at noon and another break at 2. They all meet back in the lambing barn and play cards and talk. It's too much breaking for me. Waste of my time. So I did nothing before the first break and then we weighed lambs and I felt like a lot of the time I was in the way. I'm working with these 3 manly men dudes that probably think women are wussies and weak and then I don't know how they normally do things and I didn't grow up w/ sheep or anything so I feel like a retard but I'm here to do something so I try to help but mostly I'm probably in the way and they just wish I would go away. After that we sat around until lunchtime. Then we went to dock tails and we had to lift up each lamb and hold them while they got their tails docked and some of the lambs were so heavy and we did hundreds of them so my arm will be sore for sure tomorrow, especially since it's already sore from shoveling snow on Monday. Then we had another break and then they dropped me off at necropsy to do the dead ones for today. This time I did them with a different guy, not the vet, but at least he systematically showed me how he likes to do things and explained what to look for and what things meant, which was way more than the vets did for me. I felt so stupid though because I've had my necropsy rotation but it was my first one back last May and I don't remember exactly how to do everything so this guy must have thought I was retarded but he was nice and helped me. The other days I just followed how the vet did it though it wasn't like I learned, because that's how he was doing it and he was fast and I thought I had to be that fast and do it the same. What do I know? I'm still just new at all this and not comfortable just doing my own thing. I guess I better start getting used to doing things how I want but I'm more the type to follow others. And when you don't do things for a long time it seems ackward to try and get the rhythm back. I'm just sick of feeling stupid. I hope someday I won't feel like that but really I can't ever imagine that happening. I'll always be the stupid girl who doesn't have common sense and doesn't know what she should.

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