but I am afraid that it won't be a LONG, awaited update due to the face that I have gen path soon.
When you were last given a glimpse of my story, I was nearly on my way to Texas for the SAVMA Symposium. It was an interesting experience, that is for certain. Parts of it were fabulously educational or wonderfully fun. But parts of it were just stressful or stupid or disorganized (or any combination fo the above. The experience was kind of like "Vet Student Girls Gone Wild". There was plenty of drinking done by my colleagues. I did a little myself as well, but I am afraid that I just don't go to conferences to get drunk and be too hung over to attend the meetings/lectures. I did find some subjects that I need to research more/for the very first time. One of them is the Bowen Technique. Anybody who reads this have any info (on any side of the issue) to recommend to me on this subject??
Jeff Corwin was the keynote speaker. That was pretty damn cool. He is from Boston, but doesn't usually have the accent. On certain sounds, though, it does tend to come through. I thank the goddess that he once had a cat named Charlotte that came up in his address. I hear that boston accent and I just melt. Mmmm...
The wet lab on parrot restraint, handling, and clinical exam techniques was useful and I got to help other people learn some stuff that I already knew (as well as make a little friend of a quaker parrot who didn't like anyone else really. I guess that I am a bird whisperer:).)
"Overview of parrot behavior" workshop (lecture, meeting, whatever. At queer conferences they are called workshops) was useful. I definitely came away from it with some good ideas to implement or at lease try out in the present and future.
17 hour bus ride in each direction. This was less-than-pleasant and was very frustrating at times. I did sleep about 10 hours on the way down and off and on for most of the way back, so I guess I can't complain much.
It was great, when I returned to town I got a ride back to my place, dropped some stuff off, grabbed a couple of things, and headed to Troy and Rachel's. As I turned the corner onto their street from the south, a car turned onto their street from the north. It was Rachel! How's that for timing? We couldn't have done that if we had been planning to do so.
It was really awesome to be home. I missed sleeping with my loves in a giant bed. Sleeping three people who don't mind touching during sleep in two side-by-side queen beds is a very starkly different situation from sleeping two people in a double bed when touching is disallowed. And I hadn't had sex from anyone, including myself, in five days. This, too, is not an ideal situation to me.Spring break was glorious. Rachel had it off from work and we spent pretty much 24 hr/day together [:)] from Monday until this Monday when I had to go back to school [:(]. Then she was off to work on Tuesday until this Saturday night! Talk about cold turkey...
The trip to IC on Tuesday was bittersweet, what with Ruby's closing and all. We did get to see a couple of very important friends, though. We also obtained peacock feathers with which to play around. This is VERY exciting. Oddly enough, though, we haven't really used them at all yet. Oh well, that will come. It would probably be even more fun with rope, though. But, then again, what ISN'T more fun with rope, right? :))