Anyways, a few things worth talking about. It's hard to believe that it was almost 2 weeks ago now, but we finally got a good snow! It was around 8 or so inches, if I had to guess. It was really beautiful, helped even more by the fact that I haven't seen this much snow in a long time (Isn't that sad? I swear that even growing up in Fredericksburg we got at least one good snow at least once a year).
Here's the view from our apartment balcony on Monday, March 3. I love it.
Elisa wanted to come out to see the snow too!
She may look very pensive here with Candace, but she was actually pretty scared and wanted to go back inside rather quickly. She's very much an indoor cat, and is very content to stay that way. It makes me wonder if it has something to do with whatever happened to her before we got her.
The most interesting part of the snow was finding out what was going to happen with school on Monday morning. I got a message on my phone around 6 am, saying that we had a two hour delay, which was rather exciting (apparently VA Tech rarely ever closes or has delays, even if people are slipping treacherously on their way to class. Silly mountain folk.). Since that meant we had to be in class by 10, I meandered outside around 8:30, figuring that would give me plenty of time to clean off my car and then enjoy a short walk around in the snow. Unfortunately, I found that both of my car's front doors were frozen shut and that there was a nice refrozen layer of former slush underneath all that lovely, fluffy snow. Long story short, it took about an hour to get my car warm, cleaned up, and ready to go. I then ventured out of the apartment complex, facing some of the worst looking roads that I have ever had to drive on. It was pretty scary, especially when a large pick-up truck going on the opposite direction of me started to swerve all over the place. Yikes. However, I got to school safely, braved the very icy hill from the parking lot to the building, and finally made it inside. Most everyone seemed to have been safely assembled around 10, only for one of the scheduling people to come in and announce to our class that the professor for our 10 am had decided that it was too much for him to dig out his car in time, and so would not be coming. Argh. Best of all, in true vet school fashion, we don't just lose the 3 hours that we missed, but we have to make them all up, and the scheduling people were kind enough to promptly plug in all the precious 8 am slots that we happened to have free. Sigh.
However, I am very happy to report that I still love snow, even though I seem to have reached the point in my life where it causes more problems than not. My mom always warned me that this day would come...but I think I will remain stubborn. After all, it definitely made that Monday a lot more exciting, and having a little bit of a change from the routine was great.
This semester is continuing to move along at a steady clip. It's really amazing how fast it's going by. Now that I think about it, I have less than two months before I'll be finished with my first year of vet school. How in the world did that happen? The good thing about things moving along quickly is that this last week before spring break hopefully will fly by. We have an anatomy test on the thoracic limb on Thursday, and then we'll be home free!
To finish up this post, some humor, courtesy of our vet school professors:
"Did you hear about the corduroy pillows? Yep, they're making headlines!"
-Dr. Monroe
"Now, when studying the funny bone, you have to be careful, or you could get it confused with the humerus."
-Dr. Eng
Hehehe...oh, dear. I'm sorry. I have to listen to things like this everyday, so I thought I would share!
The most interesting part of the snow was finding out what was going to happen with school on Monday morning. I got a message on my phone around 6 am, saying that we had a two hour delay, which was rather exciting (apparently VA Tech rarely ever closes or has delays, even if people are slipping treacherously on their way to class. Silly mountain folk.). Since that meant we had to be in class by 10, I meandered outside around 8:30, figuring that would give me plenty of time to clean off my car and then enjoy a short walk around in the snow. Unfortunately, I found that both of my car's front doors were frozen shut and that there was a nice refrozen layer of former slush underneath all that lovely, fluffy snow. Long story short, it took about an hour to get my car warm, cleaned up, and ready to go. I then ventured out of the apartment complex, facing some of the worst looking roads that I have ever had to drive on. It was pretty scary, especially when a large pick-up truck going on the opposite direction of me started to swerve all over the place. Yikes. However, I got to school safely, braved the very icy hill from the parking lot to the building, and finally made it inside. Most everyone seemed to have been safely assembled around 10, only for one of the scheduling people to come in and announce to our class that the professor for our 10 am had decided that it was too much for him to dig out his car in time, and so would not be coming. Argh. Best of all, in true vet school fashion, we don't just lose the 3 hours that we missed, but we have to make them all up, and the scheduling people were kind enough to promptly plug in all the precious 8 am slots that we happened to have free. Sigh.
However, I am very happy to report that I still love snow, even though I seem to have reached the point in my life where it causes more problems than not. My mom always warned me that this day would come...but I think I will remain stubborn. After all, it definitely made that Monday a lot more exciting, and having a little bit of a change from the routine was great.
This semester is continuing to move along at a steady clip. It's really amazing how fast it's going by. Now that I think about it, I have less than two months before I'll be finished with my first year of vet school. How in the world did that happen? The good thing about things moving along quickly is that this last week before spring break hopefully will fly by. We have an anatomy test on the thoracic limb on Thursday, and then we'll be home free!
To finish up this post, some humor, courtesy of our vet school professors:
"Did you hear about the corduroy pillows? Yep, they're making headlines!"
-Dr. Monroe
"Now, when studying the funny bone, you have to be careful, or you could get it confused with the humerus."
-Dr. Eng
Hehehe...oh, dear. I'm sorry. I have to listen to things like this everyday, so I thought I would share!
P.S. Trying to format this thing when you have multiple pictures, and don't just want them sitting in the middle is danged complicated. Phew.
