I'm the surgeon tomorrow!

Ack, okay, 10+ days without a post! I fail again :-P

Tomorrow is our second surgery lab, but my first time being the surgeon! Going to need some prayers and happy thoughts to get through this one- my dog is an 80 lb (very sweet) pit bull... in heat. Which they haven't really taught us much about (as far as how it affects the surgery procedure) except that I know it makes it riskier and more time consuming (as if the 4 hour procedure needs to be any longer!)

So wish me luck. This is going to be intense!!!

First Spay today!

Whoops, I've already failed on my attempt to keep this thing updated. Started getting the hate text messages yesterday so I figure it's about time.


Third year has been insane the last few weeks. We had two exams last week: Surgery midterm and GI exam 1. Surgery went well, very straightforward, very fair. GI, well, haha- lets put it this way. There's a disclaimer in the notes that warns that we will get lower grades in this class than any class before it... and yep, that's pretty much right. He gave a 10 point curve right off the bat (THANK GOODNESS!), so the grade in the end is okay. Oh well. At least there are a few more grades in that class.


Over the weekend K, T, A, V and I went to the little fall festival at Sinkland Farms in C'burg. It was a nice break from studying- beautiful weather and the start of fall. We're going to go back at the end of October to pick some pumpkins before Parent's Weekend. Sunday Tahlia went to the DogSwim at my apartment complex. She was one of only three dogs to even get in the pool- everyone else just ran around like crazy people until their owners would toss them in. Crazy golden retriever.

This week continued the insanity. Monday we had a bone marrow biopsy lab for Small Animal Clin Tech. It was sort of stressful, because there wasn't a whole lot of preparation and we were sort of thrown back into anesthesia/pain management, something alittle fuzzy for most of us. Two of my group did BM bx, and then we all did joint arthrocentesis (joint tap) and lymph node biopsies. I was in the first section, and we were supposed to recover our dogs and then go to our afternoon Communication Skills butttt our dog Velma had other ideas. It took her almost 2 full hours to recover (we had given IV morphine for pain control) and eventually the staff had to reverse her to get her to wake up. So we missed the Comm Skills Lab and actually had to sort of do it in the lab, while recovering our dog.

Tuesday was the public health exam, which went suprisingly well. I say suprisingly because his questions have been getting more and more challenging through the years... and most of us had zero motivation to study given our hectic schedule this week. Tahlia also decided it would be a good time to get sick, prompting a good clean up of the apartment- evidently pool water does not agree with her. Poor puppy- she was fairly miserable... as was I.

Tuesday evening we had our pre-surgery exam for today's spay. That went well- our group works really well together and J had done a lot of the physical exam by the time we had gotten there. Our dog is super cute and very well mannered, more than I can say for some of the other dogs in the lab. We came back early this morning to check on her again and walk her.

I'm the anesthetist today, which I'm pleased about. I did a lot of it over the summer, and while I'm still very nervous, I feel prepared. It'll be good to have a lower-key role this first lab I think, to get an idea for how everything works and get over some of the initial anxiety. We'll start preparations around noon today, and hopefully be done by 5. Then I have a group meeting, check on the dog this evening, then home to collapse in my bed!!! Tomorrow I have to come in early again to check on our surgery dog, then it's my day to care for/medicate our bone marrow dog Velma both in the morning and tomorrow evening.

Let's just say I can't wait until Friday- entire day off :)

Okay, time to go calm down before surgery- wish us luck!!

Senior Schedule

Ahhh, well we had our senior scheduling meet today. To sum it up... stressful. A lot of rules to learn and requirements to satisfy, but the end result was we got our tentative schedules. I don't really know if this is a good or bad schedule, so I didn't switch anything. But here's where it stands right now:



Rotation 1: 5/11-5/31: Lab services (VMRCVM)
Rotation 2: 6/1 - 6/21: Production Management Medicine (VMRCVM)
Rotation 3: 6/22-7/12: Ophthalmology (VMRCVM)
Rotation 4: 7/13 - 8/2 : Small Animal Med (VMRCVM)
Rotation 5: 8/3 - 8/23 : Radiology (VMRCVM)
Rotation 6: 8/24- 9/13: Anesthesia (VMRCVM)
Rotation 7: 9/14- 10/4: Small Animal Surgery (VMRCVM)
Rotation 8: 10/5-10/25: Community Practice (VMRCVM)
Rotation 9: 10/26- 11/15: Large Animal Clinical Services (VMRCVM)
Rotation 10: 11/16-12/6 : Speciality Med (Cardio or Neuro) (VMRCVM)
Rotation 11: 12/7 - 1/3 : Speciality Med (Cardio or Neuro) (VMRCVM)
Rotation 12: 1/4- 1/24: Elective Block (TBD)
Rotation 13: 1/25-2/15: Elective Block (TBD)
Rotation 14: 2/16 - 3/7 : Elective Block (TBD)
Rotation 15: 3/8 - 3/28: Small Animal Surgery 2 (VMRCVM)
Rotation 16: 3/29-4/18: Small Animal Medicine (VMRCVM)
Rotation 17: 4/19-5/9: Elective Block (TBD)



Overall, I'm fairly content with it... happy to have a SAM block at the beginning before boards (Nov/Dec) and one at the end before launching into an internship or private practice. Any VMRCVM alum have any ideas?



Now I also need to decide on my elective blocks. One is dedicated to public/corporate- which might translate into a shelter medicine block for me. The other three are electives, one of which may be used as vacation. The other two I'm considering different speciality practices, since we get little formal exposure to Oncology (it's not offered as a speciality here) and to also see where I might like to apply for internships. Aye aye aye, so much to think about!



In other news...
This weekend went well- the game was fun, although the play itself was rather boring. C. and F. came with us- their first Hokie game ever!! So that was neat... taking them over on the BT, teaching them football cheers and traditions, and just enjoying the overall Hokie football atmosphere. T.S. Hanna held off to the East, so we had beautiful weather (althought a little warm at times). A. Some of our other classmates showed up later to sit with us, although most of our seating group was MIA (I'm thinking a wee bit too much Novartis tailgating before hand, haha).

And with that, time for bed. We have two big exams next week (Surgery and GI 1) that I really should get started on... eventually. :)

End of week 2

Ah well, week two is done. And I have to say, third year still beats second year by a long run. Poor second years had their first midterm this morning, while I went to school at 1pm and don't have my first test for another 10 days.

Well, I guess I should technically say my second test. Yesterday we had our Surgery Pre-Test before beginning our surgeries. Without saying too much and violating the honor code, I'll just say that it was a pass/fail test where we had to demonstrate various surgical (sutures, instruments, etc) and surgical preparation skills (scrubbing, gowning) in order to perform our spay surgeries beginning next week. While we were all nervous as hell, it went well and without any major trauma. Definitely thankful it's all over though! And now on to surgery... fortunately for my group not for another few weeks.

We have our senior schedule meeting on Monday to determine next year. So in three days I'll know where I'll be until May 2010. The way scheduling works is they print off pre-determined rotations for each person within each track (small animal, food animal, equine, mixed, public/corporate) and then we simply pick one out of the pile. Very scientific. Since I'm a small animal tracker, most of my rotations will be in the hospital with two electives. I'm not sure yet how we're allowed to schedule our external blocks but hopefully that will be cleared up on Monday and I can get to work on that. I'd like to spend my electives at different oncology centers to help get an idea of maybe where to apply for internships.

Other big news... tomorrow kicks off the first home game of my seventh season as a Hokie! Last weekends game against ECU didn't go so hot... so let's all hope we can beat Furman tomorrow (or as my friend called it... our debut against St. Mary's School for Girls). So bring it on, TS Hanna- it's time for HOKIE FOOTBALL!

GO HOKIES!

First Post of Third Year

Well, I've decided to try and turn over a new leaf and actually update this thing more than once every two years. That being said, it does pretty adequately sum up vet school so far:
- first year everyone is excited and anxious and thrilled to be there
- second year- forget it. If you have time to be posting, you have time to be studying Pharmacology (or Path, Bacti, Clin Path, etc. etc.)

So now that second year has been conquered, I'm going to try and keep this better updated for the start of third year. We'll see how we go.

The first week of the semester is already complete and thank goodness for that. Many of us agreed that we felt more nervous starting this year than previously, not entirely sure of why.

Third year begins the really scary stuff (or the most exciting courses, if you still have any optimism remaining). Our course load for this semester includes:

Core classes (that we all take):
Surgery P&P
Gastroenterology
Public Health
Communications Skills
Ophthamology
Neurology

Track Courses (small animal for me)
Small Animal Medicine 2
Small Animal Techniques

Electives
Goat and Sheep Med
Oncology 1
Career Development

Fortunately, despite the scariness of the course load, this semester already seems better than last year. For one example- first day I had a class later than 8 am? August 28. First day for the second years? September 26. Poor little souls.

Surgery P&P feels like the biggest obstacle at the moment- mainly because everything is so new and there are so many new skills that we're being expected to learn. We have our surgery pre-test next week, and we're expected to be proficient in about 6 different suture patterns, aseptic technique (that is, gowning, gloving, prepping and transporting the patient all without breaking sterility- actually much harder than it sounds!), anesthesia protocols, and probably some other things I'm choosing to forget at the moment. Amy and I watched the surgery videos this past weekend and practiced in the lab, so hopefully we'll be okay.

Surgeries are scheduled in rotations of three. The first time my group has surgery, I'm scheduled as the anesthetist. The next round I'll be the surgeon and finish up as the assistant surgeon. So cross your fingers for me (and my patient) on October 8!

Other than that, GI is the major backbreaker this semester. I'm hoping that after Clin Path and Pharmacology from last year it will at least be managable.

Outside of vet school, not too much else to report. Trying to decide what to do after graduation (internship, private practice, etc.) and where else I might want to try living. All I know is that it won't be Blacksburg (come on, I think 8 years is enough) and it won't be Northern Virginia. I guess we'll just see where life takes me!

Okay, time to go to Oncology.

Semester 1 is DONE!

Phew. What a ride. I am very proud and happy to say that semester one is finished! It has been the biggest journey, possibly only second to my time in Australia.
Let's recap:
- 9 classes:

• Ethology
• Professional Foundations
• Anatomy
• Biochemistry
• Physiology
• Immunology
• Large Animal Husbandry
• Histology
• Embryology

- amazing lab partners!
- fabulous new friends
- not nearly enough sleeping or having fun, although we managed to squeeze it in when we can!

I learned not only about the foundations of veterinary medicine, but also a lot about myself and my other 89 classmates. It's amazing the different personalities we all have and the progress we've made in working together as a cohesive group. Even my arch nemesis has slowly started to gain my respect :) Our class had some drama, both inane and tragic, but we all managed to survive to the end! So, semester one is done. The grades all turned out great, even better than I expected in certain classes such as Biochemistry "*coughcough* . Now it's time to go home, rest for a few weeks and come back ready for Semester 2 and a whole new set of challenges. And despite the long hours of class and studying, the insane amounts of information to learn, and the huge quantity of stress- I love (almost) every second of it!

Two tests down, 197 to go.

I don't know if it's really 197, but I'm sure it's a lot.
So as of 4:00 today, I am finally done with my first physiology and anatomy tests. Both went well, I think. Anatomy was tough, but I studied for more hours than other final before now, and I think I knew most of the answers. The practical portion I thought was fairly easy, but the written section was a little tricky! We'll see soon enough how it went :)
the rest of the week is FINALLY a bit slower. Tonight the second years are hosting the first years at PKs downtown. Then the rest of the week will hopefully consist of catching up on all the work I fell behind on last week, and preparing for the Grey's Anatomy premiere on Thursday. You can see where my priorities are! It should be fun though, we're having a bunch of classmates over to watch it- a chance to relax and hang out away from school!
That's pretty much it for the moment- off to relax and do nothing for the rest of the evening as a reward for two weeks of constant studying :-)

Vet school owns me

Just as my wonderful professors predicted, you do tend to drop off the face of the Earth now and then. This past weekend, Physiology consumed my life. We had our very first vet school exam this morning, and it went okay! I'm cutting myself a little slack because a) definitely not in school mode yet b) I knew next to nothing about Physiology until now and c) this professor's notes/lectures are terribly confusing! So all in all, I'm happy with the grade I got!

Other things to catch up on- Anatomy has become slightly more interesting. Two weeks ago we signed up for large animal specimens in lab. Being a class full of horse crazy girls, we all scrambled to sign up for a horse. Haha, joke was on us! My new lab group- Katie (my roommate), Megan, and Patrick, ended up with a fat little pony. The four equine specimens were evidently Hackney ponies that had grown so mean that their owner "donated" them to the vet school because he could no longer handle them. Not only were they badly embalmed, but they had about an inch of subQ fat covering the entire trunk. So while the people working on goats and calves spent 15 minutes cleaning their specimen, we spent two lab periods. Gross. We named our pony Star Jones, for obvious reasons.

Tahlia and I spent a fair bit of time exploring this past week/weekend. Her spay incision from four weeks go (!!!) became infected, so after a visit to Dr. Debby and a hefty dose of Clavamox, we decided to avoid the dog park/Duck Pond for awhile. Instead we discovered Heritage Park, a 169 acre park owned by the Town of Blacksburg. It's so serene and not very many people know of it, so it's the perfect place to go and relax and walk through the wildflowers and the fields. Definitely one of our new favorite places!

Okay I think that's about it for now. We have our first anatomy test coming up next Monday- going to require a lot of preparation for that one, so don't be too surprised if I fall into the abyss again!

Hope you all are doing well!

5 days down, 1349 to go

I don't know why I torture myself, I really don't. A member of the class of 2009 had a countdown to their graduation going so I thought... sure, why not have a giggle and see what it is for 2010. How utterly depressing... see for yourself at:

Countdown To VMRCVM Class of 2010 Graduation

Anyway, week 1 went pretty well. Glad its under our belts and we can move on.
On Thursday we began our dog dissections... and they let us play with scapels. You know we all had mad-surgeon fantasies with our gloves and dissection kits open! Anyway, our dog is Gooey- her name comes from the fact that she is, well, gooey. She's a black shepherd mix who will be with us all semester. We didn't do very much on Thursday except begin our basic dissections and locate external features. I think Gooey will become one of our closet friends in the coming months!

This weeked I spent relaxing. Friday, Heather and I went to the dog park with Tahlia and Oakland. We had to wait for the silly C'burg High School Cross Country team to finish practicing, but the kids waited patiently on leash until they left. By that point, about 15 dogs were running around the park. This is only the second time Tahlia's been here, so I was a little nervous, but no need- she immediately forgot about me and ran around like a crazy puppy. She found the little section of the Duck Pond and immediately dove in. While every other dog would hop in for a moment and then run out, my little water retriever refused to get out. About 25 minutes or so later, she was bouncing around in the water with a boxer puppy when she let out a loud YELP. Then she comes slinking out of the water, non-weight bearing on her left rear leg, it just kind of flopping behind her. Greattttttttttttttttttttttttt. Instead of panicing, I palpated her leg and checked her range of motion- her response was only to lick my hand and wag her tail. A young guy who had been there awhile came over to check on her, and couldn't see anything visibly wrong either- except that her leg was still floppy. No worries, despite the near heart attack on my part, Tahlia rolled on the ground for a minute or two, then bounded up and ran away like nothing had happened. Jeez. At least she's okay- although smelled pretty darned awful!

Saturday, Sara came down to play. She helped me put my new bed together, then we had a classic undergrad-esque night of O'Charlies and some TV. Unfortunately, we're now old people and we were asleep by 11:45. Hahaha. Up early this morning, we went out for breakfast and then watched some more TV. i tried to do as little as possible until this afternoon, because I know my weekends will be getting progressively more stressful. Might as well enjoy it while I can!

Anyway, tomorrow is a pretty light day! Anatomy at 10 and Physio at 11... and thats it. I have to come back for a SCAVMA meeting (student chapter of the american veterinary medical association) that's pretty much mandatory at 5, but until then I'm free!

Hope everyone had a great weekend!
Two of my favorite pictures that my dad took when Tahlia was just a baby! Man, she used to be so cute!

First full day of class

Well I finally made it through a full day of vet school, without crazy murderers running around.
The day started off bright and early (okay, 9:30) arriving on campus to once again find no parking spaces. How annoying. Vindication came only slightly when I saw that about 40 or so orange VT parking tickets littered the windshields of the Resident pass holders. That'll teach 'em!
Today we had Biochem and Histology. I'm a little nervous about biochem only because I had a lot of difficulty with it last semester as an undergrad. However, with Dr. Eng teaching, I think it will go a lot more smoothly! Histology I'm rather excited about- being the nerd I am, I'm actually excited about learning a skill completely foreign to me as of now.
Following lectures, I had a three hour break for lunch, because my lab didn't start until 3. Tomorrow I'll have it at 1 and be done at 3, and Thursday I'll have one lab at 1 and another at 3. As you can see, our schedules aren't very consistent. Anyway, it was nice to come home and relax a little, and I was able to take Tahlia on a nice long walk. She hasn't been out much since her spay 10 days ago- her incision is just now starting to really heal. So she enjoyed it greatly, chasing the butterflies and smelling every mailbox along Sandy Circle and Walls Branch. Goofy kid.
Following our break, Katie and I headed back to VMRCVM for our three oclock lab. Being the nerds we are, we were secretly thrilled once again at putting on our white lab coats :) Then we spent the next two hours learning every bump, angle, ridge, foramen, and tuberosity on various bones- or at least attempting to. Katie is one of my dissection partners, along with Sarah whom I met today for the first time. It should be a good semester as we're all pretty willing to venture guesses and admit our mistakes. I'm actually quite excited!
Okay, off to do some studying and prepare for day 3 of vet school!

First day of class.... kind of.

Well things never go quite as smoothly as you anticipate. I had everything all planned out- left my house in plenty of time, had everything packed and ready to go. Then the day started laughing at me.
First, upon pulling up to the intersection of Duckpond and Washington St., I was instructed by a VT employee to either go right or left. Southgate (straight ahead) was blocked off by a series of police cars. Curious. As I proceeded to pull into the Cage (the huge resident/commuter lot next to the vet school) I noticed many of my classmates circling, looking for parking spots. Even more curious. Turns out all 400+ spots reserved for vet students were full- mainly because a huge quantity of stupid resident freshmen parked in our half of the lot. So after having parked in the Litton Reeves lot (something I swore I would never have to do after graduation), I hiked to the vet school and arrived just in time for class. Phew. We had claimed seats last Friday with sticky notes, so I had anticipated my seat to be open- hahaha, not so fast missy. Someone evidently did away with the system and I was stuck in one of the few open seats in the very last row. Bummer.
Dr. Eng begins lecturing our very first anatomy class ever. 45 minutes into it (with 5 to go), a VMRCVM administrator enters and walks up to speak to a perturbed Dr. Eng. Thinking it was related to nametags or lab times, etc., I don't think any of us were prepared for what followed.
Sunday morning, an inmate, (William Morva, 24) from Mont. Co. Jail was transported to Mont. Co Regional Hospital for treatment. While there he managed to overcome the deputy, wrestled his gun away, shot the deputy and then shot and killed a hospital security guard. Then he escaped towards Blacksburg. This morning, around 7:15, he was sighted on the Huckleberry trail, a popular hiking trail that extends from the edge of campus to Christiansburg. He was confronted by a police officer who he then shot and killed. Then he vanished. Someone reportedly saw him in Squires Student Center, on campus, and prompted an emergency closing of the university. We were then instructed to return home and stay inside with the doors locked.
So my entire first of my veterinary career consisted of a 45 minute anatomy lecture and a lot of worrying.
Thankfully they captured him this evening without anyone else being injured. Quite an adrenaline filled morning! To read the whole story, click here.
Now it's off to bed to try again tomorrow- a whole day filled with histology, immunology, and some fun Anatomy labs!

Orientation week/ First day of class.

Hello all!

Since everyone at school keeps warning us that we're going to disappear off the radar once classes start and I'm horrible at keeping in touch regardless, I thought I'd give this blog thing a try once again. Check back frequently- I'll try to update at least once a week so you all know what's going on down here in Blacksburg as I begin this new adventure.

Class begins tomorrow, but let me first tell you all a little about Orientation Week. In Australia, we called it O-week- here it's nowhere near as glamorous- or fun. Monday began by herding all of us little scared first years into room 125, aka The Dungeon. It's in the basement of Phase IV of the vet school, where we will be spending the next year. Like the nerd I am, I arrived very early, having been told by my Big Sister (Erin, a second year I knew from Town and Country Vet Clinic) that we chose seats on the first day. At 8 am, everyone else had arrived and we sat through a morning of intro speeches, followed by lunch provided by Hills Pet Nutrition, then a tour of the hospital. Then we had a bit of a break and returned to the Commons (the cafeteria) at 6 for dinner and a panel discussion in which we were able to ask questions to faculty, graduates, and current vet students. Following this period, we attended the bonfire- which was really nothing more than a fire around which we roasted some marshmellows for S'mores. I think the highlight of the day for everyone was a) surviving and b) receiving our fancy schmancy name tags.

Tuesday was the day we were all dreading. Katie, my roommate and another first year (I knew her also from Town and Country) drove the 30 minute drive to Shawsville in almost complete silence- we were exaughsted from the night before. We had to spend the entire day at Camp Alta Mons, which is an "adventure" camp with high and low ropes courses etc. What was intresting was the fact that also attending the camp was Hayfield Secondary, a rival highschool located about 15 minutes from my Burke home. Small world. Anyway, the day kicked off with an awkward breakfast, followed by an awkward get-to-know-each-other game, only to be followed by an entire two hours of awkward games. I think the real bonding occurred in trying to avoid playing the awkward games. The morning session was spent doing various activities such as "Take these 6 sticks and arrange them in an equalateral triangle." "While blindfolded, build something out of boxes." Yes. I'm not kidding. When looking at the prompts, it clearly stated that the target age range was "elementary-junior high". Sort of humorous to picture 91 doctor of veterinary medicine students (ages 20-45) playing with sticks, but nonetheless torturous. After a peculiar lunch and more awkward group games (we had to pass a frisbee from person to person using nothing but our backs... simple enough if you're 10, not to easy at 22!!!), our instructors put their feet down and insisted we spend the afternoon on the ropes course. By this time its close to 90 degrees with the humidity so high we might as well be swimming through it, and we're cranky. Our first activity consisted of standing on a moldy damp log in random order and having to arrange ourselves according to birthdays without stepping off the log. If three people fell off, you had to start over. Again, most of us aren't the same size we were when we were 12 and did this game, and the log was slippery! After 15 tries and some very cranky outbursts, we finally succeeded. The rest of the afternoon went better, although I didn't participate very much due to the extreme pain in my left foot from my severe plantar faciitis. Lucky me. When I got back to Blacksburg my foot was twice the size of my right one. Delightful.

Wednesday: Another morning of speeches, a lovely lunch from the business club, then an afternoon of picking up our class notes, buying unattractive coveralls for large animal husbandry, taking official pictures, picking up dissection kits, and renting microscopes. Incredibly expensive afternoon! Luckily we were done by 1:30 which was a nice break!

Thursday: A really nice breakfast by Purine, more speeches. Then Dr. Eng, our anatomy professor, spoke to us about the realities of vet school and how hard it would be. He told us that it wasnt that the information was difficult, but that the quantity and time in which we had to absorb it was the problem. He told us that there were oceans of information to learn= and illustrated this with a massive crashing wave. "This is what it will feel like... and that's you," pointing to a spot at the very point where the crest crashed to the ocean floor. Greeeeeeeeeeeat. By this point we're all considering dropping out and becoming Wal-Mart check out clerks. We all waited for the upbeat lesson at the end- but it never came. Basically we learned that we will have no free time, our families will forget what we look like, and that while this semester will be hard, first semester of second year is incredibly more difficult. I can't wait. ha. Following this uplifting talk, we had a diversity workshop which was interesting in that we were able to meet more people and got to see some of the true personalities of our classmates come out. I won't say anymore than it should be an interesting year!

Friday: We were all excited to be finally finishing up the week! After a few more speeches, we had lunch in the Oak Grove (a big stand of oaks on the campus, with a catered lunch) and had the opportunity to meet some more people as well as some faculty members. Then we had our matriculation ceremony. Each person had their name called and were then "coated" by Dean Shurig and officially welcomed to the profession. As dorky as we all felt, secretly we were all thrilled to have our starched white coats on. We're on our way to becoming doctors at last!
Then some of us who thought we knew things about large animals took the Large Animal Husbandry course pre-test. If you pass, you don't have to take the class- needless to say I will be taking it this fall. Of all I know about horses, 10 out of the 75 questions covered equines. The rest was on sheep, pigs and cows. White, pink, black/white- that's all I know about the aforementioned creatures. Haha, oh well. At least I know what to expect of the course because the pre-test is evidently very similar to the final!
(pictures are class of 2010 after our white coat ceremony, and some of my classmates and I at the luncheon)



This weekend has been very relaxing with finishing setting up the house, hanging out with friends, and taking Tahlia on playdates. Tomorrow classes begin and my life is forever changed! If you want to know my schedule at every waking moment, you can find it here. It's going to certainly be an adventure!

Well, bedtime is calling! I will try to post as frequently as I can on this, but we all know how that goes. Please email me your contact info- I'm trying to update my address book now that everyone has moved away and started new jobs!

Wish me luck!