If I seemed less prepared than last year for this ride and tie event, perhaps the following timeline will give you a clue why. Saturday Oct 5: Whoo hoo! this is going to be fun. Sunday Oct 6: Uh Oh. Stashi is super lame on right hind. Very likely a shoeing issue (just shod), stepped […] more

SO STRESSED. Most of it is short term, let-me-get-through-these-2-weeks type stress.  Scheduling my externships is not going as well as I want, and I REALLY want to get out of the teaching hospital for the entire 12 weeks that I can use for externships, and right now, I only have 2 weeks for sure. Everything […] more

My my my it has been a long time!  Long enough that this post deserves to be a “what Mel has done in the last couple weeks” so we can be all caught up on recent events, and thus ready to dive into other topics. 1. History essay. Thank you for everyone who has given […] more

I’m convinced that you, My Dear Reader, have all the answers to the very difficult questions that come up in my life. For example – What topic should I write my Ride and Tie Scholarship on? –> My winning submission was the DIRECT result of a reader question, and a series of posts. Or, should I […] more

Editorial note: apparently I’m scaring people. Rest assured this is a post that is written tongue in cheek.  Me and Funder both agreed that worst crew every is the BEST…you know – in that “worst sort of way”, and I had a lot of fun, and was very caffeine deprived (forgot to drink caffeine because […] more

Part of my curriculum this semester is a comparative medicine class that consists of mostly group work 2x a week on various subjects.  There is usually a quiz, and then discussions.  We are required to individually write a “portfolio” entry every week that is either reflective, discusses clinical relevance of the subject, do further research […] more

I’m currently scheduling my life through May 2015….that’s right – this month I’m picking my clinical rotations and scheduling externships through my GRADUATION from vet school. Even though I’ll get a total of 5 weeks vacation between April 2014 and May 2015, only one of those weeks will be “guaranteed” – ie only one is […] more