Today started our journey of dissecting embalmed dogs in Morphology (Gross anatomy) lab. I think that I have a good group. There are only three of us and one of the girls seems to have a real way with a scalpel, the other isn't bad either. And I think that we will be able to work well together and learn what needs to be learned. Boy were the dogs juicy today, though. Nice and freshly done.... I think that we did a pretty decent job on our first dissection, too. Trimmed a good amount of a fat and connective tissue to show the beautiful, striated muscle beneath. They (being the powers that be) have stressed to us (being the VM1 class) not to ruin our dogs, because there are no extras, these are the only ones that we get and have to learn from for the entire semester. We did the superficial dissection of the left thoracic limb. Thursday we will be transecting the major trunk muscle and then the layer of muscles just deep to it on the limb.

I read so much nowadays... I have a new-found respect and empathy for my friend who has been doing this whole professional-type program for months now. Whenever there is a break at school, I study, when I get home, I study. When I get up, way too early, might I add, I go to school and the cycle begins again.

On the brighter side of things, I think that I have a friend-to-be at vet school and am fairly excited about a couple of my seven classes, well, all of them, really, if I don't sum the amount of apprehension and terror that I have for them in with the excitement. Also, I have chocolate pudding and sharp cheddar cheese in my fridge.

Oh yeah, and Thursday is Taco Bravo day!