*Shakes fist to sky*

I'm not a religious person. I sometimes wish I believed in God or heaven and hell because I think it will give me some perspective in my life. I want to believe that there is a balance to the universe and that karma really exists - if you do good, good will come to you, and all that other stuff.

But right now, it's hard to believe that's true. What type of God would let a man go so crazy batshit that he shoots down people in a movie theatre? What type of karma is it for a woman who survived/witnessed the Toronto Eaton Centre shootings to just be shot and killed a few months later? (The latter sounding very Final Destination-like by the way).

I guess I'm just in a little bit of a shock since I'm in this little bubble in my flat studying and stressing out about an exam and I hear this horrible news. I know there are other horrible events going on right now in the rest of the world, Libya, Greece, etc., but it just seems so foreign to me that it's difficult for me to think that that is actually happening in the same world that I live in. A shooting in a theatre though, just seems so much more ...close to home. I've gone to the movies a bunch of times and now, this guy, James Holmes, has scared everyone shitless from doing one of my favourite past times. So fuck you James, fuck you and your craziness and mental instability. It's people like you that make people like me wonder why I should even worry about writing an exam that could determine my future career when  I could just one night walk into a movie theatre and never come out of it alive again - and it would have been all for nothing.

I'm not a religious person, but my thoughts and whatever prayers I make are with the victims and families of the Aurora Colorado shootings tonight. 

Another year has passed

Hi everyone!

So it's been a long time again since I last posted, I just don't have that much stuff to post about! Even though I actually do but I don't realize I want to post it until a year later. oops!

Anyways, so I'm done fourth year of vet school (technically my 3rd year) and will be moving on to final year in September. However, I have to resit one of my exams next week so if I pass that THEN I'm on to final year! One more week of non-stop cramming and reading and studying, and then I get to fly home to Canada for a whole month (and a half). It won't be just a vacation though, I'll be completing some work experience at 2 emergency referral hospitals (one for York Region and one for Toronto) and then 2 weeks at the Toronto SPCA. I just can't wait to get some hands-on experience this year; usually by now I would have completed a month of EMS and gotten my fill of dogs and cats (never!) but this summer is a little different.

As part of our course, we have to complete a 6 week research project before the start of final year, it can either be a lab project, a clinical project or a literature review. I opted for the lab project as I hoped it would give me a better structure for my report as well as getting me some hands-on lab experience (which I haven't had in about 5 years). I ended up at the Roslin Institute which is across the road from the new vet school. Most of you will know it as the place they cloned Dolly, and that's all I knew it for as well before I started. Genetic research like cloning for Dolly is no longer being researched at Roslin although they did name their cafeteria "Dolly's" to remember that time in history. My project looked at transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (brain disease that's transmissible) although I can't really delve more into that project here.

So now another year has passed, a lot of drunken shenanigans and wedding proposals and weddings have happened around me (congratulations Nicole and Mike! And that was one amazing hen night...back in November 2011 haha) and hopefully one more year to go!