Updates

Today I have to stay at school till after 8 PM for a make up class. I quickly wrote the paper I needed to write and since I would rather wait to be home to learn the 20 amino acids. So other than listening to the Sox game I figured now would be a good time to update. Seeing as my mother asked about my other blog I feel like I have to admit when I first started that blog it was easy for me to come up with new things every week at some point it started getting harder and harder to the point where now I feel like I have no new ideas. I keep waiting for the time when I get the inspiration back and I'm sorry that you guys have to wait till that time.

Classes are still good and it feels great to be back on a schedule instead of what my life was like over the summer. I've been slowly trying to get most (get everybody has a little) drama out of my life. How do I do that? I hang out with the right people. I have found a new group of friends which are just less dramatic and more down to earth and focused on school. Thats not to say we don't have fun, we just don't like drama.

Its the season of TV shows coming back or starting up. I haven't tried to many new shows so far. I half watched Two Broke Girls but wasn't blown away. The new 2 and a half men seemed to try and create the same dynamic between the new character and Jon Cryer which if they keep up will be the end of the show. Looking forward to watching yesterdays How I met your mother tonight when I get home.

I know all three of those things really had nothing to do with each other but my life is a pretty simple one right now. I wake up, go to school, hang out with friends, study, watch TV and repeat.

school school and more school

Now a little more than a two weeks into this semester I can say it might be one of my favorite ones so far. I love my schedule, classes seem good for the most part and because I live 20 minutes from school I can't just go hide/nap in my room between classes and have actually gotten a lot closer to people I have classes with. I'm taking five classes: Upper division writing, globalization, biochem, anatomy and bioethics.

Upper division writing has been fun so far but very little writing has actually happened. I enjoy the teacher though so I am just having a great time.

Globalization is a lot of info to absorbed and I feel like if I wasn't a science major/busy all the time on classes that matter for my future I would enjoy it way more.

Biochem has been my favorite class so far, it mixes every science we have taken so far and it just finally feels like I'm using some of the stuff I learned.

Anatomy hasn't really started yet. But I'm looking forward to when it starts picking up. Also we are dissecting a cat which sounds horrible but I know I'm going to have to do it a lot in veterinarian school.

I have taken a class from from the same teacher as Bioethics and not even joking its a carbon copy. He even uses the same examples to explain the same points that he did in the other class. >_<

I'm 22, oy. It was also my birthday over the weekend and one of my roommates and our friends from class threw me a party. The past couple of years I have had a girlfriend over my past two birthdays and as wonderful as they were for doing things for me it was really nice to have the party then have the day to lie on my bed and watch football and just relax.

Also this week marks the start of a new TV season. Even though next week is when most shows restart I started a new show this week called Ringer. It was amazing to see Sarah Michelle Gellar back on TV and she seems to be very happy with the role. My only problem was that the pilot was very very convoluted. Hopefully after the first week of trying to introduce all the characters and story it will find a nice tempo and not seem to be random scenes tossed together. 

I don't know how often I am going to be able to update this blog, I have a very busy schedule and trying to find the perfect mix of time with friends homework and everything else I want to do.

Interlude with Kittens 2 - Ferals Unite!

In 1998, our family fostered a pair of feral kittens for the Neponset Valley Humane Society. One socialized well and was adopted out; the second was a little more fearful of humans and we ended up adopting her ourselves. And then she spent the next 10 years hiding under our bed and earning herself the name SOHO (Scared Of Her Own) Shadow. In recent years, she has been coming out more and more under very controlled circumstances -- like when we are lying flat on our backs in bed -- and demanding to be petted.

The Shadow was our first feral kitten and we learned a lot from her about how to teach feral kittens that (certain) humans can be trusted. To an extent. The three feral kittens we have been socializing this summer are living proof of how much we have learned. They are still skittish around us, but we can stroke them (and they even purr!), pick them up, and even hold them for short periods.

The babies have also been venturing out of the bedroom more and more. One even made it into the garage the other day. Then early this morning, I noticed this tableaux as I was about to head out:

That's Oreo cleaning himself on the futon couch, Moony staring distrustfully from the floor, and Tiberius perched on the arm of the couch right in front of the books. And as a bonus -- that's our Shadow in the cat tree, keeping an eye on me as I snapped this picture.