Thank You Aunt Shane & Uncle Mike!

Dear Aunt Shane & Uncle Mike,

Thank you for sponsoring my ECFVG registration!

Your Niece, Karla

My Rotation Schedule

Dates Rotation
8/31-9/20 Field Services
9/21-10/11 Small Animal Internal Medicine
10/12-11/1 Clin Path
11/2-11/22 Community Practice
11/23-12/13 Vacation (to study for the BCSE)
*12/1-12/8* *ECFVG-BCSE*
12/14-12/20 Anesthesiology
12/21-12/27 off (maybe)
12/28-1/3 on
1/4-1/10 Anesthesiolog
1/11-1/31 Food Animal Medicine
2/1-2/21 Animal Shelter
2/22-3/14 Radiology
3/15-4/4 ICU? (I'd like to change this so I can study)
*4/12-4/24* *NAVLE*
4/5-5/3 Zoological Medicine
5/3-5/23 Equine Medicine
5/24-6/13 Diagnostics
6/14-7/5 Small Animal Medicine
*6/25 *Grand Rounds Presentation*
7/6-7/25 Equine Surgery
7/26-8/15 Preceptor (Externship)
8/16-9/6 Preceptor (Externship)

Start of OSU

Here starts life at Oklahoma State University's Veterinary Program. Everything here is orange. (Cringe!) Rotations start on Monday, with Field Sevices, and go until mid July when I got out on externships. Nice to know that Norman is only an hour away and that Dallas is only a little bit further. They have 2 Walmarts here! That is very exciting. I haven't eaten at McDonald's yet, but wow, the spicy chicken sandwich I had at Wendy's was really good. It's nice to be back in the states.

From Highland Park to a Trailer Park

Rudder, Salty, Mango, and I have all been reuninted in the Americas! What a heroining flight! TSA is absolutely miserable and I have no desire to ever fly again.

After much to prepare and pack in College Station, I finally moved in to my place in Stillwater. It's pretty and everything seems nice. The horses seem to like it. It's really close to school and I'm ready to get started!

After Ana, Before Bill

Ana has come and gone. No damage that I could tell, and none reported thus far. We still have electricity. The cat was out last night, and seems as orange as ever this morning. Storm seemed just that, a storm. I slept thru it. (Pictured above is Hurricane Bill as of this morning.)

Bill, however, has strengthened into a hurricane. According to NOAA, the predicted path for Hurricane Bill should be northeast of us. Miami is north of us. My only goal is to get to Miami before Bill does, and from there, DFW... with the animals, of course.

That's about all for now. Heading to the airport to fight the crowds.

Race Against Time

In the midst of packing, I recieve a frantic call from a friend who is desperate to escape the rock. She had checked her email and found that campus notified us (finally) about the inpending hurricane. That one, Ana, was no big deal. I'd watched it form during finals and I'd predicted it would hit some time when I was scheduled to leave.

Turns out, a second storm, Bill, has decided to grace us with it's presnce. That I wasn't aware of, and it's MUCH bigger than Ana. Super.

According to the satalite imagery on NOAA, both storms are headed for a direct Caribbean hit! Specifically, St Kitts (where mom and I are) and St Croix (where dad is). Oh fun again. I called my brother yesterday to remind him to watch the weather incase, ya know, it hit us before we got on our AA flight back to the mainland, stranding us here without electricity and forcing us to live in a mud hut underground. Hey- at this point, anything could happen and nothing would surprise me.

Fortunately, the sattelite of Ana seems much less dramatic than it was yesterday. It had a very clear eye, which is no longer obvious. Below are the storm updates that I recieved this morning (both were huricanes yesterday).

...ANA RACING WESTWARD...
8:00 AM AST Sun Aug 16
Location: 14.6°N 54.7°W
Max sustained: 40 mph
Moving: W at 20 mph
Min pressure: 1005 mb


...BILL STRENGTHENS A LITTLE...
5:00 AM AST Sun Aug 16
Location: 11.4°N 37.2°W
Max sustained: 45 mph
Moving: W at 13 mph
Min pressure: 1002 mb


If anyone needs help finding where I am, St Croix is the speck southwest next to Puerto Rico, and I'm the next speck west of that about 3 milimeters away. It coorelates to 100 miles from Puerto Rico to St Croix, with St Kitts being an addioional 150 miles. That's a big 3 milimeters. Neither of these storms compares to Hurricane Dean from 2007, so I suspect they will blow over.

Ana is supposed to hit at 8am Monday August 17 (tomorrow) before Rudder and Mango's flight, while Bill is scheduled to hit at 8am Thursday, August 20 after my, mom's, and Salty's flight.

PS: I have 5 posts that I haven't had time to polish and publish. Stay tuned for more interesting stories!