Ginger's Blog of Miscellany: Birthday Blog Post

As my friend Catherine has twice pointed out in the Comments, this blog has been a little neglected lately. One reason is the “I’m busy!” excuse. School really has been keeping me busy. This is the first semester of school where I’m honestly starting to relate to some of the “vet school is hard” rumors. The other reason for the blog neglect is related to the first, and that reason is that all of the topics I’ve thought about blogging recently have been a little depressing. Recently considered topics have included

Cytology: Purple, purple everywhere. Or Cytology: All this s*** looks the same.

Hematology: Damn you breed differences! (Did you know that greyhounds can have grey eosinophils? Or that the Dutch Partridge Hound has “bowl-shaped” red blood cells associated with a hypertrophic gastritis? Or that Birman cats can have pink granules in their neutrophils? It goes on and on.)

Systemic pathology: My brain is full.

Nutrition: This should be an online pass/fail course. (Also, this is the course that I have an exam in next week, so blogging is a form of procrastination. I already did my taxes, applied for financial aid, and vacuumed this morning instead of studying.)

So you see, I’ve really just been sparing you the rants! There are some great things about vet school, though, and right now, those are keeping me going. Namely, we a) get to work with cute animals, and b) take pictures of the cute animals.