A flashback and a look forward

This is from the vet school 80's party, I really don't go out looking like this to Northgate every week. And I owe the radness of this outfit all to Walmart. Thanks Krista, for the great pic. Even I can't help but giggle at my array of awesome plastic bracelets and fingerless gloves.

After 3 years of indecision, fear, and a little bit of questioning my commitment to my future career, I've stumbled onto what I want to do after I graduate. I've been spending the past few weeks at different research animal complexes in Bastrop, College Station, and Houston and each visit gets me more and more excited about laboratory animal medicine. Yesterday I visited the Texas Heart Institute at St. Lukes Hospital in Houston. I was part of a large group of veterinarians, pathologists, medical doctors, technicians, biomedical engineers, students, and even a photographer all gathered around a sheep fitted with the latest in ventricular assist devices being developed to save human lives. After seeing the collaboration between all these different fields and then going upstairs and seeing the patients being treated I thought to myself "Wow, I can really be a part of something bigger." I haven't felt this excited in a long time. I can't wait for my internship at MD Anderson Cancer Center this summer. The thought of working in a small animal clinic seems so boring to me now, that I can't believe that I ever considered doing that after I graduated. I just had to share my enthusiasm.

Springtime in Texas

Epitomized by a cute dog in a field of bluebonnets...

Can you tell I'm procrastinating?

I don't understand the deal with Agyness Deyn. First of all her name sucks. I really hate names with unnecessary consonants. Secondly, she has terrible taste in clothes that everyone keeps oohing and ahhing over. I feel like I'm witnessing the emperor's new clothes.
I think the fug girls said it best:
"People are always going on and on about the effortless, incomparable-to-mere-mortals style of model Agyness Deyn -- like she's some kind of Chloe Sevigny of the catwalk, and we mere mortals can only DREAM of rolling out of bed every morning as fluent as Agyness is in the language of Awesome. "
Third, she's beautiful and fabulously skinny, which automatically puts her on my hate list. I'm not too worried though, soon she'll be boring and everyone will roll their eyes at her wardrobe antics like Sienna Miller.

Generalized apathy

brought about by a combination of 3rd year laziness and medication side-effects have made me neglect a lot of things that I used to find important, such as this blog. Quite a few things have happened this Spring. I'll recap:

Grommet and I visited the Grand Canyon over Spring Break.

It was really...Grand.

At a place called the Watchtower on the East Rim there was a Native American playing the flute.

During my travels through Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona, I saw quite a few ravens, a mountain chickadee, a juniper titmouse, pinyon jays, steller's jays, and a northern flicker. I also saw some rock squirrels, a chipmunk, mule deer, and an impressive bull elk.

Last weekend was the vet school open house. The public is invited to take tours, attend lectures, play surgeon on stuffed animals, and interact with a lot of live animals.

Oooh fistulated cow fun!

I worked the indoor events so I got to hear all the lectures and see some neat creepy crawlies.

Unfortunatly when I returned home yesterday I discovered that my minature lawn flamingo had been violated, probably by a neighborhood kid. You just can't have nice things in this side of town.

I wasn't able to find the head to reattach it. Poor little flamingo!