KfH and the Monster Bag: Picture

Today marks the half-year anniversary of Satan’s Little Fart Cloud’s quarantine. Her coat is growing in beautifully, and once again I am allowing myself to dream that we can start doing cultures to see if the ringworm has cleared. The veterinary dermatologist we’re using said if she’s still good Monday, we can start. This is…

I spoke with representatives of the USDA at length during the conference last week. They are looking for veterinarians, and have openings in California. I would probably qualify for moving expenses. Paywise it would be a lateral move or maybe a slight step down, but the benefits are great, I’d get more vacation and they’d…

The world is burning. Mother Nature turns arsonist. Matches become weapons. Touch the button, a bomb explodes. The timer hits zero, shrapnel flies. Depress the key and the inflammatory cocktail whizzes along an electronic pathway to detonate at its assigned address. Forget to set the parking brake and the car becomes a missile, its targets…

Is there anything in life quite as awkward as a holiday spent with someone else’s relatives? If so, don’t put my name on the list of participants. I’ve had my share of awkward for this season. The original plan was that the Professor’s grandmother would be making dinner Christmas Eve, which Daughters #1 and #2…

I got up an hour earlier than normal to study. I could use another couple of weeks to go over brand/generic names (we need to have well over 200 of the memorized, and since most are human-only drugs they are not in my previously acquired veterinary repertoire). We need to know legal history of pharmacology,…

as in “Contemplating my …” I’m in a funk. I tried explaining it to The Socialist yesterday, but the process of exposition is made difficult by the fact that I can’t actually explain it to even myself. I think that, in part, it’s got to do with the fact that I’m now nearly eleven months…