Well, sorry all. Its been way to long since my last post...but in my defense, things have been insanely busy.
For one, I (dont remember if I posted on this earlier) got the internship at the CFZ. After working through the original 3 months (September-December) I applied for a second internship, and was invited back. I'm currently working through that, which runs from January until April.
I will be finishing classes on the 29th of August, and will be heading back to Auburn on the 30th of April. Summer classes do not begin until the 20th of May, which will give me plenty of time to get settled in my apartment, and start the job hunt.
It's rather bittersweet for me. I'm looking forward to going back, especially since it means I will get to take some very exciting classes, like Herpetology and Wildlife Dieseases, but I will be sad to leave my friends at the zoo. I will miss everyone there terribly. If only there were a way to transport the zoo to Auburn, or Auburn to the zoo.
I have been trying, without luck to find places to aquire venomous experience. Unfortunatly this is not working as well as I would like. I've been really hoping to get an internship with the Reptile Discovery Center in Deland, FL, but unfortunatly, Carl says they're booked on interns for the next 3 years or so. I'm still hoping to find a way in, and Carl said that I should keep checking back, just in case something opens up.
Other than that, classes are going well. I finally passed calculus (second time's the charm) as well as passing micro econ, 18th/19th century humanities, and Chem 1 (second time is also the charm here as well). At the moment I'm currently in Chem 2, philosophy and western civ 1. I'm definitley passing the latter two, but struggling a bit with chem 2. I think I have a 65, which is still passing. As long as I pass, I dont care what I get. And its the last sciency-math class that I have to take. After that, its all fun and games (like biologies and wildlife courses).
I've been giving more thought to my 'park' that I've always wanted to start when I reach 'retiring age' (which means 40-50s). Its evolved from a Wolf Park to more of a small zoo. There will be wolves there, as well as having a herpetarium. I believe the herp will be the first thing I build, since I plan to move my own personal collection into the building. The wolves I will probably have to aquire.
My plans are for it to be run by myself (or husband if there is one). We will take care of the expenses, but the animals as well. Since I plan for it to start out as family owned, I dont see there being much trouble in that. I am planning on building the exhibits, so I dont see how taking care of the animal's on top of that will be so different (then going home and taking care of them there) plus most of them will be, as stated, my own personal collection. Though there are some I will probably have to aquire after the herp is established, as I would not feel comfortable keeping a taipan in my home.
Other than that, not much else is going on. I've returned to my original Roman Catholic faith for the time being, and plan to stay that way at least until I'm confirmed. After that, who knows. I was hoping to be confirmed this May, but unfortunatly, I will not be in the area when the bishop is, and since I'd determined to get confirmed at St. Stephens (the church of my childhood) I will have to wait until next year. Which I'm fine with. It means that much to me.
20th Birthday was on Friday. Just got all 4 of my impacted wisdom teeth out yesterday morning. I have a short blurb on it below:
^^ Well I survived.
I was nervous as heck when I got in there, but
they
sat me down in the chair and put the needle in the side of my wrist,
which
didn't bother me as much as back or hand, or crook of elbow. The heart
monitor
was maig me nervous, cause my heart was racing, and I'd try to take
some deep
breaths, and calm down, but then I'd think about it all, and my
heart would
start racing again. ^^ After a minute or two, it started making
me nervous,
being able to hear how freaked out I was.
But one of my
favorite songs
came on the radio, so I sung along with that (I never sing in
public, tone deaf)
to take my mind off things.
Then they hooked me
up to the drugs. They
said it would be slow, and I'd feel dizzy, and maybe a
little tired. I remeber
feeling dizzy almost instantly. when I lay my head
back, all the tiles on the
ceiling started dancing and stuff, moving all
around.
After that the
next thing I remember was them trying to help
me into a wheelchair, and me just
sorta falling into it. Dad says I fell
into the car as well.
Didn't wake
up till we were halfway home,
about an hour drive, was in Orlando for the
surgery. Overall, the surgery
only took ~45min, to remove all 4 impacted wisdom
teeth.
I think
there was one point where I tried to growl, but dad
couldn't have realized
it, because I couldn't talk AT ALL, so I was like
'humming' and growling and
stuff, trying to communicate. Eventually wrote on a
piece of paper with
pen..
I might have howled in the car (not loudly,
but like...humming
a howl). If I did, no one noticed or said anything.
But otherwise,
everything's fine now. ^^ Drugged up on oxycodone. Its
semi-annoying. the
pills put me out almost as soon as I take em, so I end up
napping for an
hour or so, and then do as much talking, movie watching, or
reading as I
can, before I need to take them again, and fall asleep again.
I wasn't
until maybe 5 or so hours after the surgery that I finally
regained feeling
in my entire lower jaw and tongue. But I did eventually, and
can talk now
just fine.
Definitley will not be going to school
today...or
tomorrow most likely. Will -have- to go back on thursday though.
Can't
afford to miss another chem class or lab, since I already will have to
make
up what I miss today.
Thanks all for the advice and well wished. ^^
I really glad everything went well. And maybe, in future surgeries, I'll be
less
anxious about the whole thing.
-Ice
I also vaguely
remember
hearing my dad's voice when they wheeled me out in the chair, and
felt...relief?
I still to out of it to even realized I was nervous until I
heard dad. Then I
sorta had this packmate-alpha impression in my mind, and
went back into la la
land. Dad said I was flopping around in the chair, like
I was trying to wake up.
I dont remember much of that at all, but he also
said my eyes were closed...so I
guess not remembering anyting makes sense.
^^
That's about all I can think of for now. Will try to keep up with this for now on, and possibly write more later.
-Twitch/Ice Blitz
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