A new lifestyle

It's coming to the end of the 2nd week of school now... and i suppose that I'm settling in to the new routine lifestyle. Every morning, wake up , spend 5 minutes saya-ing Misha, then do toilet sutff and then check that lal the books/notes for the day have been placed in the bag before dressing up to go to school. Give hay and water to guinea pigs, breakfast to Misha, then if there's time, have my breakfast. If not, there's my great theory of being actually more awake during lectures wthout breakfast in the stomach! All the better. Bring muesli bar to school just in case halfway during lectures cannot tahan anymore. Next is to drive to school in moderate to heavy traffic.. I'm trying to improve my cutting lane skills and I've got good reason to do so.. it's embarassing how I can leave the house early and reach sch later than my housemates who left much later!

Following that, we'll have 4 hours of different lectures till 12.30 in the same lectures... between lectures, I'll just sit there, stone and watch everyone get out their own stuff to eat, or go toilet, talk, whatever... when lunchtime finally comes, some of us would bring our prepacked lunch into the vet common room, either wait for the use of hte 2 microwaves or just eat some dry/cold food. Other whod are more 'lazy' would walk 5 minutes to buy lunch from nearby.. and I'm beginning to fall into this category. Following a one hour break, we then proceed to whatever afternoon pracs that we've been assigned to, which would usually drag on till 4.30. Then, still must drive about 20+ minutes to get home, or rather, a big oven. Summer's officially over, but the weather obviously decided that it wants to cook us a little longer.

nice life? i know it isn't too bad, compared to some other pple, maybe those in the medicine field. Definitely good that our lectures are packed together, and that we don't have any night classes. It's just that we have been too slack for the past 3 years it takes a little bit of adjustment to get used to.

Events from this afternoon.. I was doing small animal medicine rotation with V and M. Our coordinator PI, assigned us to this dog in the hospital, for which we were supposed to identify the breed at the very least, and then find out what's wrong with it. So there we were, 3 pple with the dog in the X-ray room. We looked at it, and thought it looked like a terrier cross with poodle. (actually come to think of it, the poodle bit was added by me... )... PI came back into the room after a few minutes to ask what breed we thought it was. Turns out, it is a purebred terrier, possibly worth over a thousand dollars because it's a rare breed. So he went away, and we were left to do a physical examination on the dog. After listening to the heart and lungs, we thought we heard heart beat irregularities and crackling sound over the lungs. PI came back and told us that there weren't problems with either the heart or the lungs. So there goes our diagnosis. Next we said that the chest area felt spongy, so perhaps there could be oedema, or fluid accumulation. He palpated the dog's chest, and told us that what we are feeling is pretty much fat. Shot down again. Turns out that the dog's real problem was with his abdomen, but we didn't realise it. As it was, the dog was under pain relief, and we couldn't see his flinch/reaction to abdominal palpation at all.

I'm looking forward to Friday... time passes pretty quickly after all.