I am taking 14 credits this semester here's my schedule
computer basics
essentials of human nutrition
family foundations
foundations capstones
veterinary clinical pathology 2 MW 10:15-11:15 and lab T 7:45-8:45
veterinary surgical nursing 1 MW 11:30-12:30 and lab T 3:15-6:15
large animal nursing F 1:30-3:30 with lab alternately every other week
The classes that don't have times are all online. Yay. I'm also a teacher's aide for animal anatomy and physiology so I attend that class MWF from 9-10 and I am in charge of teaching lab Tuesdays 11:30-1:30. I also hold a couple study groups a week for that class and grade lots of papers and lab books. I really enjoy it and I can get as many hours up to 20 as I want. So as long as I do the minimal amount, I can work as little or much as I like. I really enjoy doing this, I've done it before, I'm good at it, and I will always remember the specifics of anatomy and physiology because I've been able to teach it so much. I'm still working at Cedar Ridge, although I'm only working every other Saturday from 8-12, because I'm a nice person. It's a long story...
Michael is also in school this semester. He is taking 14 credits as well. He decided probably 2 or 3 days into the semester that maybe business wasn't for him. He liked some aspects of it, but when it came down to the important stuff, like financial reports and budgets, he'd rather not be there for it. So he switched into the Ecology, Range, Wildlife, and Fisheries major, well all those words in some sort of order anyway. He is planning on doing fish and game or park ranger or something. So he gets to take classes with me! Some of them anyway, I was able to help him squeeze into the anatomy class I am TA'ing for, so we get to see each other then. It's been kind of a challenge for me to have him in that class, I want so bad to just take the quiz or test for him, but I can't. And heaven forbid I know what the quiz has on it ahead of time... Oh man, it's so hard not to tell him everything it says. But I figure I probably shouldn't give him an advantage over the rest of the class. So I should just tell everyone what the quiz says! Maybe not. Back to Michael. His schedule looks like this:
animal anatomy and physiology MWF 9-10 and lab T 3:15-5:15
english MWF 11:30-12:30
college algebra W 5-6:30
biology orientation T 12:45-1:45
computer basics
family foundations
Funny story, Michael was supposed to take Biology Orientation as a prerequisite for many of his other classes. Well, someone decided they wanted to go on a vacation, which might have actually been a teaching mission to another country or something, and the person that was supposed to make this class unavailable, since the person on vacation was the teacher of the class. So Michael gets to class, no teacher, lots of other students there, and his class got combined with some other orientation class. Now he gets to learn about pharmacists, business men, and maybe even a fish and game officer.
Other updates, Michael is still working at the front desk at the Marriott, but he did change positions a little. He is now called the night auditor, cool huh? Probably not, he now gets the privilege of working 5 nights a week from 11 pm to 7 am, Sunday through Thursday. Now he sleeps during the evening, except when he has class and does his homework at work. In other news, my computer has decided to die. Lately I've been receiving updates from my computer saying the "battery is reaching the end of its usable life." Encouraging, right? I had lost a few buttons a while back, some were able to be reattached, others just got thrown away. Today it took a turn for the worst. Michael turned my computer off, to get it out of the way, and when I turned it on an hour or so later, it did not turn on. Now this had happened a time or two before and I always waited a little bit and turned it back on and it would always work. Knowing that my computer was quickly degenerating, we bought an external hard drive to backup everything on my computer. So here I am, all weekend, trying to get things ready, particularly pictures and recipes, to be added to the hard drive. I deleted probably a 1000 pictures or more just going through and getting rid of duplicates or stupid things I didn't want. And I only made it from 2008 to the middle of 2009, I have a lot of pictures! So today when I couldn't get my computer to start up, I was so SO upset! I called around to see what computer places in town could get the information off my computer and onto my external hard drive and found a place that would do it for 50 bucks. That's not too steep a price to pay for my precious memories, cuz let's face it, I won't be able to remember forever. I was finally able to get my computer to start and have backing up all my files since. I think I'm going to try leaving my computer on all the whole time and trying to make it live a little longer. We'll see.
Ivan has been doing rather well with all the changes. He's been rotating through babysitters the past week and this week while his regular sitter is out of town. He has learned how to roll from back to front, just after he forgot how to roll from front to back. So once he rolls over, he's stuck. But I haven't seen him roll the past couple days, maybe he's learned he doesn't really like it. Who knows. Today I got him to laugh a whole bunch! He's so dang cute and this is the first time I've never seen him laugh so much. We also just got new couches, yay! We've been sitting on a futon and a couch we found for free. Not the most comfortable and definitely not the most seating. So we got a couch and a love seat from O'Dells after much searching. We're pretty picky and if we were getting something different, it was going to be awesome. And it is, they're microfiber with a protective sealant on it, and an awesome warranty on any stains. We were able to get rid of our free couch pretty quick, we put it up on Craigslist for free and it was gone within the hour. Our futon on the other hand... Well, let's just say we haven't been able to find a home for it yet. We're enjoying our little home, other than the fact that it's kinda chilly, except in Ivan's room where the space heater is, and we have a cat trapped under the house.
That's all for now, but here's a picture of our couches and a video of Ivan laughing.
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