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| Alfy's House: Version 2.2!Here's the new addition to the cage, which is what I spent Grandma's birthday money on. I improved the connection between the cages with a T-piece, allowing me to uncover the hole in the smaller cage and put the blue elbow back in place instead. Good thing, because I had to plug a new hole with that Altoids container (small, metal so he can't chew through.) I also added a viewing tower w/ circle run (plus a new toilet paper roll, which started in the front but was dragged to the back because apparently my furniture plans do not suit Sir Squeakypants at all.)
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| Google SquaredGoogle Squared: this is an awesome new tool, which I think vet students would find useful. It lets you type in a category-- for example "beta blockers"-- and it uses this to generate a spreadsheet; down the left side is the "items" which, for beta blockers, returns a whole page of stuff I don't want (conditions for which you might use beta blockers) but if you go to the next page, you get a list of drugs. Across the top are attributes; it will select some common attributes by default, but then you can add your own. In this example, the automatic categories were "image," "description," "metabolism," "excretion (hepatic or renal), and "generic name." I added "half life," and it immediately searched across pages to find the half life of each drug. A simple mouseover a square tells you the source of the info so you can go and double-check for accuracy.
Try it; it is really really awesome.
http://www.google.com/squared/search?q=beta+blocker#
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| Meet Sir Alfred SqueakypantsIt is going to be an incredibly tumultuous two weeks-- sometime between studying and taking my final exams, I need to pack and move stuff, buy a car, and prepare for my summer job at Banfield Hospital. I leave for home the day after my last final, and get back to Cali the day before my first day on the job.
But the other day I got a pet mouse!
He moved in on Saturday, in a really big cage with a wheel (he loves his wheel) and other toys. The next day Lisa loaned me a mouse ball and her mini hamster cage which I hooked to the main cage (with cardboard and duct tape, but I must say it works nicely!). Sir Alfred loves his mouse ball; he tries to explore the dark corners of the room. He can go under the bed and under my desk; every so often I don't hear him rolling, so I have to find him and get him unstuck (he might have rolled over a cord and can't get up the momentum to get back, or stuck under something just shorter than the ball.)
He smelled when I got him; today I spent about 3 hours disassembling every piece of the cage, washing it with diluted bleach, and then rinsing each piece carefully under the shower. The smell is gone; we'll see how long it takes to come back. I'm hoping if I change the bedding twice a week it won't be bad at all. (Just in case, I bought a Glades Plug-In and a bottle of anti-allergenic Febreze.)
Anyway, here are some pics/videos! Later I'll post some videos of Mr. Squeakypants cruising in his pink ball, but don't you think I've wasted enough time for today?
Sir Alfred's new home.
The home cage.
An overhead shot of the small cage that Lisa gave me.
The videos are giving me headaches right now, and I don't have the time to deal with it; if I can get them up during study breaks I will :)
Alfred figures out how to get to the new, higher shelf.
There is a whole new cage at the bottom of this tube! But enough of that; I must clean my whiskers.
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| It is hot.And stressed backwards spells desserts.
I bought a Croton v Petra; then I sprayed it with water, turned a fan on, and left the window open all night. Needless to say (ha, just kidding, you all needed me to say it; I was just humoring you), a Croton does not like cold drafts and has since dropped its bottom leaves. That is okay; the top leaves are where it's at. It has a sprout; I am trying to decide if it is a mushroom or a new plant. Kelly says mushroom; I optimistically say new plant.
Optimistically? Why yes! I'm being optimistic again. I am always leery of placebo and nocebo effects, so I shy away from making strong statements about patterns in my own behavior. I can't decide whether I am going through extended cycles of up and down, or if things are just happening at random to change my mood, and that's how it appears at this point. Anyway, one day I suddenly felt like vet school was a challenge instead of a task, and ever since then I've felt great. Hopefully this lasts!
Banana muffins are excellent; banana smoothies are excellent; banana chocolate-chip peanut-butter pancakes are excellent. Doing dishes is not excellent, but certainly less not excellent than the excellence of the associated task.
I have an exam tomorrow; I have to do pretty well on it. By "have to" I mean, would like to. I need to replace the ice cream I ate. The other day Lisa and I had ice cream from Rite Aid; I had a triple scoop and it was awesome (cherry, chocolate brownie, and mint chip.)
Okay; if I continue developing positive mental habits as I have been this week, maybe a return to Xanga is in order, with an increase in pictures from my camera. I believe this was a goal for me at some point, and I forgot about it.
And now, on to studying small animal medicine! Diagnosis Wenkebach!
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| I took some picturesToday I played with the Digital Macro feature on my relatively new camera. Okay, so I should have been studying, but it's better than Reddit. Maybe.
 Beeeeee!  You can't see me!!  I made a card! I can replace that text with better words if you like bees and want a nice personalized greeting card! | | |
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