Temperature fluctuations....

i THINK spring is here. The pattern lately is a week of 50s or 60s, then a day or two of cold (it was 24 degrees this morning and snowed the day before that) then back to warm. The snow around here is funny, it's this granular stuff. Wierd texture.

Well, at any rate, my daffodils think it's spring:

boards, part deux

To help you all feel a bit better about living in cold yucky climates (and to offset my slightly gloating last post): guess how i spent my weekend? In a review course for national boards, part two!!

8am to 5pm yesterday and today. Yes, I was in CLASS on sunday morning at 8am (where were you, you lucky dogs??). Next weekend, fri-sat-sun, same deal. Then, midterms (weeks 5 and 6 of the quarter), boards (week 9, weekend - March 14-15), and finals (weeks 10 and 11), in a quick 1-2-3. Smack, smack, smack.

Did I mention a few times already that my family's Bahamas trip, planned for the week after finals this quarter, is a GIGANTIC carrot? Because hell knows i need something to look forward to!

So what's boards review like, you wonder? Imagine being barraged with concept-based (as in, "thought" questions rather than knee-jerk responses) multiple choice questions for sixteen hours (it will be total 40 when the review class is complete) on ALL of the material you have learned in the past 2.5 years, and imagine the questions being phrased in tricky ways that make you have to qualify or disqualify each of the four options. Essay exams would have been a hell of a lot easier. Especially when you take a mildly analytical brain like mine, that is trained to find the exception to EVERY rule.

Boards part two (of four total, part 3 will be in sept, part 4 in nov) will be six exams, 100 questions each, of the same material, over two days.

My brain hurts.

not complaining

so it's early february in atlanta. can someone please tell me what these things are that are sprouting all over my yard? :)

not to gloat, but.... i just spent a while looking at online pix of a sloppy snowstorm in milwaukee. hm, shovel snow or watch daffodils grow... hm that's a tough one...

no inga, yet

sunday as i was heading for my car to meet my cousin in SC, she called and said that her daughter, my cousin Heather, wants to try to take care of Inga. so, for now, moose and billy have their peace and quiet. i have left the offer to my cousins open, so if Heather feels that she cannot handle Inga, she still has somewhere to go.

and so my trio remains as is. Moose is back to herself, even doing her little puppy-hop to greet me as i come in the front door. and her little puppy-bark when i don't feed her quickly enough! like today, when gasp, i fed Billy first. Moose did not like that. what a princess :)