found a perfect glass serving dish for my incubator! set it up today with the heating pad and got my thermometer at a steady 35*. im going to practice streaking the BAP with my sterile loop tomorrow to get the feel for it. thursday ill start growing my colonies at lunch so by lunch break on friday they will be complete. ill also be able to check on them saturday before we go home for the day to see if there was any change after another 24 hrs.
we dont do any of this stuff in-clinic, and i never did any of it in school, so it is a little intimidating!!
also- charging up my video camera in preparation for my on screen debut for semsester 3! ;)
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
back to school :)
i drove to work today and saw all the kids walking to school once again... i actually used to like the first day of school... all the brand new clothes and supplies and seeing all your friends. :)
it was also the first day back in our program today! august was great, but i must confess i am a little bit excited to start studying again! ill have to remind myself of that fact come midterms :P i'm starting things off slow today, just trying to organize and orient myself with our two new classes. i am glad that both course focus on lab procedures for this semester... that may help with the overall absorption of the material. i found the lab procedures 1 course notes to be very confusing since the notes do not have separate chapters for each week or page numbers. i had to organize them by reading through everything and labeling them with dividers. lab procedures 3 course notes however are really helpfully organized!!
at work today:
1) prepped a fecal float in saf jar for the lab. this cat was pos for giardia last summer, and we suspect the same results again. while i was doing that, i was thinking that pretty soon i will know how the lab completes all of these types of tests!! :) and i will be able to do them myself i guess?!
2) rechecked the kitten that we adopted out last week!! she is doing extremely well and her new family is in love! she was found in a ditch 2 weeks ago by a client who works road construction. she had a concussion and a gash along her forehead, but no other injuries. we healed her up and she was doing so well that we adopted her out only a week later. :)
it was also the first day back in our program today! august was great, but i must confess i am a little bit excited to start studying again! ill have to remind myself of that fact come midterms :P i'm starting things off slow today, just trying to organize and orient myself with our two new classes. i am glad that both course focus on lab procedures for this semester... that may help with the overall absorption of the material. i found the lab procedures 1 course notes to be very confusing since the notes do not have separate chapters for each week or page numbers. i had to organize them by reading through everything and labeling them with dividers. lab procedures 3 course notes however are really helpfully organized!!
at work today:
1) prepped a fecal float in saf jar for the lab. this cat was pos for giardia last summer, and we suspect the same results again. while i was doing that, i was thinking that pretty soon i will know how the lab completes all of these types of tests!! :) and i will be able to do them myself i guess?!
2) rechecked the kitten that we adopted out last week!! she is doing extremely well and her new family is in love! she was found in a ditch 2 weeks ago by a client who works road construction. she had a concussion and a gash along her forehead, but no other injuries. we healed her up and she was doing so well that we adopted her out only a week later. :)
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