So, my predictions were right--I did, in fact, get a B on the virology exam. :) I'm just waiting on the pathology grade (the exam was Monday, so we should be getting it soon) and then it's the home stretch of studying until final exams.
The school is too kind to me for my birthday--it seems to always fall during the weekend of Midsemester Break, so we get Monday off. :) This left the weekend for a lot of events--I had dinner at PJ's (which will sadly be closing soon) with my closest friends down here--Steven, Nicholine, Kristi, Trent (and his wife who's visiting this week, Jamie), Katy (and her husband, Joel) and Robert. It was nice--I definitely prefer more laid-back events. Nicholine and Steven brought me a pineapple upside-down cake... and Robert tried to trick me with the trick candles I got him with on his birthday. I know the difference, though. ;)
On my actual birthday, I opted to spend the morning at the Marriott--they have the best breakfast buffet I've had in aaaaaaaaaages. The West Indies Veterinary Conference (WIVC) was over the course of this week--and they brought down Dr. Kevin Fitzgerald to lecture on rabbits, ferrets, and venomous/toxic bites. Yes, that is the same Dr. Fitzgerald as the one from "Emergency Vets" from Animal Planet. He's a bit scatterbrained with his lectures, but he's clearly very intelligent and absolutely hilarious. (I tried to record a lecture of his, but my microphone on my laptop is absolutely horrible.) I just may consider an internship with Alameda East--it's not in Texas like I originally thought... it's in Colorado. Despite all the car troubles, Kristi (my friend in the picture here) was more than kind to get the both of us to the Marriott over the weekend for his talks.
Oh yeah... as for the car situation... well, we planned on going back to the Marriott for sushi and to play bingo (which we quickly found out that it was cancelled because of the conference). I made it up the hill to pick up Kristi and tried to coast down it in neutral (like usual), but towards the bottom of the hill, I found out that the car wasn't shifting right. It got stuck in reverse and despite being able to move the shifter, the car thought it was in reverse... so I couldn't even get it to start. Amber (my upstairs neighbor) had been working with a new mechanic who really seemed to know his stuff, so I let him fix it. I had it back within a day and it's running soooooooooo smoothly again. :)
Other than that, the birthday was very low-key and I spent it with many of my closest friends down here.
On Monday, Steven came to my room at 6:00 in the morning (after I had stayed up to 3:00am studying for the Pathology I midterm) to tell me to check on my cat. She had gotten into the cabinet above the microwave and into his stash of powdered milk. We don't quite know how much she ate, but there were three piles of vomit throughout the kitchen interspersed between the piles of the powdered milk packets she shredded. In a panicked moment, I had Steven and Nicholine bring her up to the clinic (I know it's not toxic, but I was worried about her ingesting plastic/wrapping of the packets and dehydration). Fluids, Cerenia, and famotidine later, she was discharged at noon after the midterm exam. By the end of the evening, she was back to her normal ravenous self, luckily!
I spent a lot of money, but at least everything's okay now. :) So, until this weekend!
