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Happy Anniversary!
| November 24, 2011 | Posted by Melinda under Uncategorized |
On this day, in 2007 I braved bay area day-before-thanksgiving-traffic with a horse trailer and brought Farley home. The next day we were off to my aunt’s house and some trail riding. I had already planned to bring Minx and spend the holidays trail driving (Minx was recovering from an injury and was only being […] more
Mel writes the columns…
| November 22, 2011 | Posted by Melinda under Uncategorized |
…so you don’t have to buy the magazines! I don’t currently subscribe to any horse magazines, (AERC excluded) because with the exception of one (Equus) I find them rather repetitive, trivial, and simplistic. While waiting in line to buy cat food (at TSC, taste of the wild, if you most know) I observed the following […] more
More notable vetmed wisdom
| November 22, 2011 | Posted by Melinda under Uncategorized |
How to have happy clients – prep them for failure. Then they are happy! Better NOT to suprise them with bad news right? –I’m a little unsure how I feel about this – stress and worry on the clients part isn’t exactly comforting from their point of view… Funniest thing heard today “sometimes you can either […] more
Fair Warning
| November 17, 2011 | Posted by Melinda under Uncategorized |
I’m giving you fair warning. This post rapidly disintegrates into a whiny bitchy moaning post. First the good news. Good news 1: I aced the test on Tuesday. Yeah! Another test this afternoon. (update – did well, but I’m not sure I did as well as the first one.) Good news 2: I finally feel […] more
You know you are a vet….
| November 15, 2011 | Posted by Melinda under Uncategorized |
…when the first thing you do when your animal is sick or injured is to take a picture of it for a future lecture, blog, or project. This goes along with the other fact of vet school: Now that you are a vet, your animal will get all sorts of exotic diseases. Best to sell […] more
Change is in the air
| November 14, 2011 | Posted by Melinda under Uncategorized |
Hello my devoted readers. And yes, by “devoted” I mean YOU. Since it’s not like I’ve posted anything of interest since starting school, I’m assuming all I have LEFT is you, the devoted reader, who is probably subscribed to this in Google reader, since heaven knows all those who come here directly have given up […] more
’tis the season
| November 7, 2011 | Posted by Melinda under Uncategorized |
For snuggling under comforters And down coats And rain And bottles of vitamin D And colds. The ones that, like alien invaders, get into your head and make it all fuzzy. Remember that I told you that there was nothing like establishing a new routine and new goals to bring all sorts of misfortunes? Like […] more
