Life and Veterinary Adventures

I am now halfway done with school! I'm still constantly stressed out and sleep deprived, but knowing I've made it this far is a pretty good feeling. As I said before, I'm a kennel leader now. I shared my first day with Kyal, and things went pretty smoothly (aside from me being extremely tired.) I had my first day on my own this Monday with the newbies and it went really well! It wasn't my normal group because I was covering for someone, but I was so glad nothing crazy happened. That being said, one of the black scrubs (we identify each cohort by which color scrubs they wear and the black scrubs are right below us greenies) mentioned that their normal leader wasn't going to return from her trip until 6 am the next day. Knowing that there was no way she'd make it to kennels on time, I decided the right thing to do was to tell the kennel manager. Sure enough, the girl didn't show up the next day and made up an excuse. But now, my friend Gina is their leader, ...

This past weekend was the weekend before Halloween, and I definitely got some partying out of my system. On Friday, my friend Jamie from school was having a Halloween party at her house (super close to the school.) I had kennel duty at school the next morning, so I thought it would be silly to go all the way to Chicago and back a couple times. I asked my mom if she had enough points to get me a room at the local Holiday Inn for the night to make things a little easier. (My mom is the midwest sales rep for Jelly Belly and racks up the traveling points.) Luckily, she was able to get me a room. I took a long nap after I got out of class because I'm just chronically sleep deprived in this program. I met up with another one of my friends from school, Gina, and we bought some alcohol and drank and got ready at the hotel before going to the party. The party was so much fun. We started off by playing the usual beer pong, and listened to music. Before we knew it, it was a full house and...