NaNoWriMo

I read all the time and for years I've had story ideas percolating in my head. Some of them I've even started to get on (virtual) paper, but I've never finished anything. I'm always too busy, or too picky about editing when I've barely started. No more!

I've joined NaNoWriMo this year, and I'm going to prove to myself that I can finish a story. It's in November, and the point is to write 50,000 words in one month. You're supposed to let the word vomit flow and not worry about bad grammar, plot inconsistencies, or anything else. My only worry is that it takes place at a really bad time of year for me to be able to meet a goal. It may come down to writing a first draft or staying in vet school. That's why I will take part in JulNoWriMo this summer! It's the same concept, but it takes place in July. Since the only thing I'm going to be doing this summer is working at a clinic I should have plenty of time to let the creative juices flow. Even if what I end up writing is complete crap I think the journey will be worth it.

Caturday Night Fever!

Sausages!!

It's a sad day for cats in the news

First, the story of a kitten born with six legs. The family that owns it can't pay for the operation to remove the two spare legs and torso hanging from the belly of this poor thing. Luckily, with the help of some donations, a vet is going to operate and they think the kitten will live. I don't know what vet wouldn't want to help with this case. It's the right thing to do, but from a financial standpoint (which they're trying to teach us to think about here at school) it's free publicity for your clinic.

Second, a story that's much more sad. A three year old boy put the family cat into the microwave and turned it on. Of course they couldn't afford to pay for treatment, so the clinic they took it to will soon be putting him up for adoption. They had to amputate his tail and ears, and he had surface burns and I'm sure internal damage as well. The poor kitty is lucky to have survived. I hope that little boy didn't understand what he was doing, because the alternative is frightening. As with the previous case, this is great publicity for the clinic and frankly, I can't imagine being able to turn the poor thing away. I do wonder about the potential long-term effects (such as cancer) on the kitty.

I'm going to have to snuggle my babies when I get home from class today after reading these.

If hell exists, I've got a ticket

I just watched the address the pope gave American bishops last night....and nearly fell off the couch laughing. There's something about a pope with a strong German accent that just tickles my funny bone. "Eet ees easy to be entrainced by zee almost unlimited possibilitees zat science und technology press before us." I kept expecting him to break into an angry Hitler speech or at least a "Sieg Heil". See? Hell.

Free Books!

I've been inspired to give away some of my too-large book collection. The first two are posted over at This Book For Free. It's the least I can do since I've won a couple myself and really, if I'm going to keep buying books I'm going to need to get rid of some and what better way?

I'll be posting a short review of one of the books I won (a mystery) when I get around to finishing it. School makes that take a little longer than I wish was necessary.

Now it's time to get some sleep since I have a presentation tomorrow on hemolytic E. coli in pigs (I know you're all quivering with excitement) and a test on Wednesday.

This pic made my day

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It's a good thing, too, because I just had a Surgery practical and I was so nervous I did my suture pattern wrong. Something needed to go right today.

Guess-a-Test

We just had a Virology test where it seemed that most of the answers were a choice of "A and B" or "All of the above" although he swears he doesn't make tricky questions, followed by an "easy" quiz to "boost our confidence" in Path that caused the most dissension of the semester in our group discussion. It's a good day.