an undone calm

Tracy gave me this card for my birthday two years ago, and I found it in my desk this week.  Still, I believe, the funniest card I’ve ever received.

While normally I’m pretty good about finishing projects that I start, my knitting projects seem to suffer the most from lack of sustaining enthusiasm.  This sweater took me 8 months or so to complete, but I would argue that no one can be expected to knit wool sweaters in the summer so those months don’t [...]

When people I know personally (from situations outside of work or veterinary school) complain about their veterinary bills, it’s hard for me not to take it as a personal offense. I was thinking about that on Friday as I was walking home from a bar where I’d met up with some college friends. [...]

 
Introducing the newest member of the Cloudman clan, Cheddar. He is approximately four months old, and so far enjoys: pouncing on my head at four AM, clawing at my new FLOR tiles, and purring nonstop. I decided being the only vet in New York City without a pet was starting to seem like [...]

I had a genius idea at work this week. I conjured up a project! Not just any project though. It is veterinary + nutrition + internet + math + numbers + amazingness. Obviously I can’t give the idea away here because it is going to be revolutionary and make me world famous. [...]

Say goodbye to your favorite sidebar graph! I removed the internship countdown and it seems only appropriate to retire this feature as well. Towards the end I think I lost most of my “blues” (the blue colored carbon copy of the top sheet that we use to track our visits) so my numbers [...]

Setting: 7th floor laundry. Hundreds of clean hanging lab coats organized haphazardly (no regard for size). Many coats are stained, missing buttons, pockets torn off or open. We used to have free reign in this room to get our own coats… no more.
Characters: me, newly-hired laundry staff member (aka. lab [...]

I’m having a bad day. I found out this morning that I didn’t get the job I desperately wanted. In a year when I was pretty sure things couldn’t go more wrong or get much worse, today was just another blow. It’s days like these when really all I want is to come [...]

I’ve never had a pet of my own. My family’s had two Golden Retrievers who were, obviously, the best dogs ever. When my roommate told me she had cats a few months before we were due to move in I was skeptical. Cats? They seem so stand-offish. And they can [...]

Tomorrow is “match day” for residencies… but I didn’t apply. While I don’t wish that I were heading immediately into two or three more years of long hours for no pay, I wouldn’t mind having someone else decide where and what I’m going to do at the end of this internship.
Dealing with employers makes [...]