///hear me roar///

Monday, September 23, 2002

This is my last post. Aparna is the only person that reads this, and I'll just talk to her instead of posting. I don't have enough people that care about what goes on in my life to bother.
Jessica 8:56 PM

Wednesday, September 18, 2002

Awful Annoying Quote of the Day:
Conversation overheard:

A: "I always wanted to take classes like Zoology and Mammology and work in a zoo."
B: "I would never want to work in a zoo. They're so dirty."
A: "I dunno, I used to like to go to the zoo and just stare at the tigers all day."
B: "Ugh. They're dirty."

God that chick annoyed me. Maybe tigers don't spend hours on end grooming themselves like I'm sure she does, but they are by no means dirty animals. Having worked with them all summer made this comment that much more obnoxious to me.

Anyway... I got a 98 on my first OChem test, that's very happy news :) To all those who said it couldn't be done, :-P

I'm going to NYC this weekend, to meet some friends and have dinner and go drinking. I'm so excited :) The best part is that my dinner and drinks are both already paid for, so all I gotta worry about it gas. And Dan's letting me take his car!! We're both kinda worried that mine won't make it. His is so awesome, so smooth, so easy to drive. He's great to let me borrow it, it really surprised me when he offered.

I'm going in the morning to the Montgomery Court to pay the one ticket I have left, then it's off to the DMV to get my lisence reinstated. Just in time to drive to NYC, hehe.

OK, I need to go to bed... goodnight :)
Jessica 9:14 PM

Saturday, September 14, 2002

I found out what Daphne died from. It's a disease called "mucoid enteritis". It's caused by a bacteria, is prevelant in young rabbits, and kills quickly :( The vet said that it's very difficult to catch it, and even if you do, there's nothing at all you can do for it. And also that there's nothing I did wrong to make her suceptible So while I still miss her terribly, this lessens my pain just a tad. Knowing that there's nothing I could've done, and knowing that I didn't do anything wrong. She was just so sweet though :( I miss having her around, a lot... *sigh*
Jessica 8:12 AM

Friday, September 13, 2002

Why do I even bother??
Jessica 4:28 PM

Thursday, September 05, 2002

Yesterday was not a good pet day.

I took Skunk and Arwen to the Spay Shuttle in the morning, and they were both getting fixed. When I brought them home, Skunk (my male) popped out of the box and started running around, drinking, playing, etc. Arwen was still sleeping, so I laid her on my bed and kept watch. After she didn't wake up for two hours, I paged the emergency vet. After a couple of phone conversations and several attempts to wake her, the vet asked me to bring her out there. This vet is 30 min away, in Roanoke... So I drove my babies out there, Arwen still sleeping, Skunk meowing and trying to get out of his box the whole way (I had to bring him, because it wasn't a good idea to let him roam around alone after surgery). Once we got there, the vet spent about 30 min monitoring Arwen, taking her vitals, etc. She finally determined that she was just having more difficulty than usual coming out of the anesthesia. So I brought her home, and let her sleep. I began to worry about her hydration, so I gave her some water with a dropper. That revived her beyond belief. About an hour later, she was standing for the first time in 8 hours, and she ate just a tad. *PHEW*

This morning she's wonderful. She's eating, drinking, using the litterbox, everything. And she's been so lovable all morning. She really scared me last night...

And when I got home from taking her to the vet, I found Petey mouse, dead :( He was the sweetest, calmest, most awesome mouse ever. I didn't have him very long, but I loved him :(

There was a lot of crying last night, between Arwen's scare and Petey's death.

Sometimes I think maybe I shouldn't have pets. It hits me so hard when something bad happens to them. *sigh*

Jessica 8:05 AM