Author: Meg

It’s been a while, I know. Things have been busy, as for everyone around the holidays. It’s quiet around here right now though. The dogs are both sleeping on the couches nearby. The cat is sleeping in the guest room where she prefers to spend her time. Justin is upstairs working out. The only other… Continue reading Another year over, another one just getting started

It happened again. Someone came in with a cat that they either didn’t want to be or couldn’t be responsible for, and the cat definitely needed someone to be responsible for her. The backstory, of course, is different than Barnacle’s was, but similar idea with euthanasia being on the table. She technically belongs to the… Continue reading There’s a cat in the house

Halloween 2022. Two years ago, we set up a table at the bottom of our porch steps and laid out candy on the table for kids to grab. We sat back on the porch and restocked as needed. That was our COVID Halloween solution. Last year, things were pretty normal at Halloween. Justin and I… Continue reading Happy Halloween

Anyone that has been following along knows that I started this blog about a year and a half ago because, a year into the pandemic, I was feeling a little lost in my career. I was stressed, not entirely happy or sure how I ended up exactly where I had in terms of my relationship… Continue reading What’s next?

It’s been a while since I wrote a post focused on an individual animal, as I had started this whole blog thing off doing. On Saturday, my tech and I were talking about this cat. Next month is 3 years since he came into my life, and last month was 2 years since he left… Continue reading Barnacle

It’s here again: August 29th. It is one of the happiest dates and one of the saddest dates in my life. On August 29, 2008, Flint officially came to live with us. On August 29, 2017, I woke up to the cytology report from Penn saying that he had little sarcomas all over his abdomen,… Continue reading August 29th

I recently read a book about what students learn in and take away from vet school and how their perspectives change between matriculation and graduation. The researcher met with and followed a small cohort of students throughout their veterinary education at an unnamed university in the Midwest. I think this group of students graduated in… Continue reading Starting off on the wrong foot

Some people have recurrent, often unsettling, dreams about being back in school: they missed attending a class for an entire semester, they forgot about a final, etc. Some people dream about losing their teeth or falling through indefinite space. The stressful dreams I remember most often are work-related. Sometimes, they’re so ridiculous that, in hindsight,… Continue reading Stress dreams

I’ve been working every other week lately (unintentionally), and I’m getting pretty sad that it’s coming to an end on Tuesday. The couple of weeks I’ve been at work in the past few weeks have just felt so much less stressful than what the baseline has become in the last two and a half years.… Continue reading The disappointment when time off ends

I know: I disappeared for a few weeks there. Life has been busy. Justin had a conference to attend in Vancouver a couple of weeks ago, and I joined him out there the day before it was supposed to end. We both have wanted to visit British Columbia for a while and just hadn’t gotten… Continue reading Busy traveling. Busy dog sitting. Busy being sick-ish.