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.
Sunday, February 10, 2008
Thursday, February 7, 2008
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...
Friday, February 1, 2008
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 :)
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 :)
Thursday, January 24, 2008
Inga
I have long spoken of the idea of being caretaker to a second pup. It seems the time has come.
Inga is a 3 year old German Shepherd, raised by my cousins' stepdad Bruce. Bruce has not been well of late. Inga will be coming to Atlanta from Florida on Sunday or Monday, depending on my cousin Terri's schedule.
My house will soon have a whole lotta ears!!
oh, my neighbor who hates dogs is gonna be a bit peeved.....
Inga is a 3 year old German Shepherd, raised by my cousins' stepdad Bruce. Bruce has not been well of late. Inga will be coming to Atlanta from Florida on Sunday or Monday, depending on my cousin Terri's schedule.
My house will soon have a whole lotta ears!!
oh, my neighbor who hates dogs is gonna be a bit peeved.....
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
It's snowing in Hot'Lanna
and you should see people on the roads. Hilarious. I'm so, so, so glad I live less than 2 miles from school. That said, it took me an hour today to drive 3 miles to my chiropractor and 3 miles back. :) i really should have ridden my bike.
It's supposed to sleet and slop and ice overnight. I'm hoping classes are cancelled, that'd be sweet!
It's supposed to sleet and slop and ice overnight. I'm hoping classes are cancelled, that'd be sweet!
Thursday, January 10, 2008
Zooey playing with Moose and Billy
The following videos are of Baby Zooey, Brie and Seth's 6mo daughter. We had scrabble night a few weeks back and Zooey had just started to crawl... much to the chagrin of my cat. Moose, on the other hand, didn't really seem to mind :)
Wednesday, January 9, 2008
One reason to love Georgia
is something that many of you will be a little jealous of: lax inspection requirements for car registration.
Now, you all know that my car is safe. There's nothing *much* wrong with it, except that it eats fuses frequently when I shift into reverse. My friend Dave thinks that this may be a fairly simple problem, gunk buildup in the socket causing a short, but I just haven't gotten around to taking the light panels off yet to check - esp when swapping in a new fuse fixes the "problem" just fine (the "problem" being not a lack of reverse lights, per se, but a lack of dashboard/odometer lights, and the inability to start the car. I like to call it an anti-theft mechanism: If you REALLY want my car, you'll have to figure out how to start it when the next fuse blows!) So, yeah, nothing that's a safety issue, much, you just have to stay on top of it and keep extra fuses around.
In many other states, Mass being at the top of the list, my car easily would have failed emissions/inspection today. But not Georgia. They gave me a "pass" with a smile.
Do any of you remember in 2002, when my truck "failed" Mass inspection because the frickin windshield wipers didn't work perfectly???
So, it looks like I will be keeping my car registered in GA until I feel like fixing its little "character" issue. Well, the good thing about that is, since I was 2 months late re-registering and getting emissions inspected, the emissions test will still be valid *next* november, when I go to renew my tags. Not that I've used THAT one to my advantage before.
This brings the sum total of things that could have caused me great inconvenience had I driven north for the holidays to: very sick dog (who is now MUCH better), sloppy snowstorms en route from Detroit to Ct (which might have left me stranded in PA for xmas eve, with afforementioned sick dog), nail in tire (found that when I got home; easy to fix, but that would'a put a wrench in a 2000 mi road trip, eh?), registration expired (oops), license missing (tho fairly speaking, that may not have happened had i left earlier). As frustrating at it was to have not been able to spend some time up north in Dec and over New Years, I think it's safe to say it was for the better?
Now, you all know that my car is safe. There's nothing *much* wrong with it, except that it eats fuses frequently when I shift into reverse. My friend Dave thinks that this may be a fairly simple problem, gunk buildup in the socket causing a short, but I just haven't gotten around to taking the light panels off yet to check - esp when swapping in a new fuse fixes the "problem" just fine (the "problem" being not a lack of reverse lights, per se, but a lack of dashboard/odometer lights, and the inability to start the car. I like to call it an anti-theft mechanism: If you REALLY want my car, you'll have to figure out how to start it when the next fuse blows!) So, yeah, nothing that's a safety issue, much, you just have to stay on top of it and keep extra fuses around.
In many other states, Mass being at the top of the list, my car easily would have failed emissions/inspection today. But not Georgia. They gave me a "pass" with a smile.
Do any of you remember in 2002, when my truck "failed" Mass inspection because the frickin windshield wipers didn't work perfectly???
So, it looks like I will be keeping my car registered in GA until I feel like fixing its little "character" issue. Well, the good thing about that is, since I was 2 months late re-registering and getting emissions inspected, the emissions test will still be valid *next* november, when I go to renew my tags. Not that I've used THAT one to my advantage before.
This brings the sum total of things that could have caused me great inconvenience had I driven north for the holidays to: very sick dog (who is now MUCH better), sloppy snowstorms en route from Detroit to Ct (which might have left me stranded in PA for xmas eve, with afforementioned sick dog), nail in tire (found that when I got home; easy to fix, but that would'a put a wrench in a 2000 mi road trip, eh?), registration expired (oops), license missing (tho fairly speaking, that may not have happened had i left earlier). As frustrating at it was to have not been able to spend some time up north in Dec and over New Years, I think it's safe to say it was for the better?
Thursday, January 3, 2008
Monday, December 10, 2007
Finals week, again
Man, it's like being hit over the head with a metal bat, repeatedly.
So, last week was "screw amy" week. Not literally, rather figuratively. It started Monday morning at 7am, with out Intro to Outpatient exam, which was supposed to be multiple guess and was actually fill-in. I promptly failed, and am passing the course only due to a curve. The penalty for failure would have been staying here for another quarter of clinic... and I knew on Monday that I had failed and had to wait until Friday until he posted the curved grades. Talk about hand-over-eyes. Then there was the little "assembly" debacle: we are required to attend a certain # of these per quarter, and to sign in. Someone misplaced one of my sign-ins, and it's a good thing I caught it before it was too late or i'd have been behind a quarter on assembly credit. Nothing awful, just a huge pain. And a huge pain to correct. Then wednesday during my extremities adjusting exam, the instructor gave me a move that had not been taught in class, and I had to make something up. Fun... Scratched my way thru that one... good thing, as failing would have meant I could not take boards part 2 in march, and therefore would be delayed in taking part 4 licensing exam until a few months after graduation. Thursday was my Skeletal Rad lab exam, which was bitchin'... and my grade that I got back said I had barely passed, with a meager 7/10. Not really my style, and a definite WTF moment, as the four people I studied with for that exam got 9/10 or 10/10. OK whatever. Then, to polish my week off, I barely (by accident, actually) caught one of the last appointments to do an OSCE debrief, which I did not realize was mandatory, IE, do it or fail OSCEs (entry to outpatient clinic requirement) whether or not you passed the actual exam. Lucky on that one. Others were not. Plus, Moose was sick early in the week, and would not eat for a few days. And would not come up the stairs. And hobbled on her right rear leg, nearly fell over in the yard. And, I got scheduled at work for a weekend I was hoping to have free so that my friend Dave could come visit - gr.
Moose is acting better, maybe she just twisted her hip chasing the cat :) Today I found out that my skeletal rad grade was a clerical error - which makes me very happy. Right now it's finals, yet again. Tomorrow I have three exams, two more on Wed, then two more on Thurs, then I am free of exams and classes for a blessed four weeks!!!!!!!
If anybody has any good jokes or funnies, I could use them.
So, last week was "screw amy" week. Not literally, rather figuratively. It started Monday morning at 7am, with out Intro to Outpatient exam, which was supposed to be multiple guess and was actually fill-in. I promptly failed, and am passing the course only due to a curve. The penalty for failure would have been staying here for another quarter of clinic... and I knew on Monday that I had failed and had to wait until Friday until he posted the curved grades. Talk about hand-over-eyes. Then there was the little "assembly" debacle: we are required to attend a certain # of these per quarter, and to sign in. Someone misplaced one of my sign-ins, and it's a good thing I caught it before it was too late or i'd have been behind a quarter on assembly credit. Nothing awful, just a huge pain. And a huge pain to correct. Then wednesday during my extremities adjusting exam, the instructor gave me a move that had not been taught in class, and I had to make something up. Fun... Scratched my way thru that one... good thing, as failing would have meant I could not take boards part 2 in march, and therefore would be delayed in taking part 4 licensing exam until a few months after graduation. Thursday was my Skeletal Rad lab exam, which was bitchin'... and my grade that I got back said I had barely passed, with a meager 7/10. Not really my style, and a definite WTF moment, as the four people I studied with for that exam got 9/10 or 10/10. OK whatever. Then, to polish my week off, I barely (by accident, actually) caught one of the last appointments to do an OSCE debrief, which I did not realize was mandatory, IE, do it or fail OSCEs (entry to outpatient clinic requirement) whether or not you passed the actual exam. Lucky on that one. Others were not. Plus, Moose was sick early in the week, and would not eat for a few days. And would not come up the stairs. And hobbled on her right rear leg, nearly fell over in the yard. And, I got scheduled at work for a weekend I was hoping to have free so that my friend Dave could come visit - gr.
Moose is acting better, maybe she just twisted her hip chasing the cat :) Today I found out that my skeletal rad grade was a clerical error - which makes me very happy. Right now it's finals, yet again. Tomorrow I have three exams, two more on Wed, then two more on Thurs, then I am free of exams and classes for a blessed four weeks!!!!!!!
If anybody has any good jokes or funnies, I could use them.
Sunday, December 2, 2007
Moose and Billy videos
several of you have asked how the kids are doing... they're up to about the same:
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