We got a bad batch of oranges at the grocery store this past week. Clearly the only logical thing to do with them is to toss them around and let Bean chase them.

Aside from the worst sunburn I've had in a very long time, our summer trip to Texas was a supreme success. We saw a couple of movies, ate all the Texas food we've been craving, and traumatized Bean with a swimming pool not once, but twice! Since getting back, I have done nothing but do laundry and catch up on DVR shows. Oh, and update this blog! How's that for productive?!

Okay, Bean time:

Don't be fooled by the smiley look on Bean's face. He's terrified.

The face of abject horror.


Look! He swims! I really should have taken a video of it, but oh well, too late now.

And now an interlude of boring (in comparison to puppy cuteness) people. After discovering that MFAH is closed on Mondays (seriously, wtf), we went to the zoo. And actually took pictures! While being disgustingly sweaty. I'm sure you wanted to know that.



Now for a little story. On the last day of our trip, Bean was very sad and didn't want to leave Texas. As I was sitting on the floor packing, he kept getting in my way. I demanded, "Can you not be needy for 2 seconds?" He responded promptly by climbing onto the bed, worming his way under Mike's laptop to lay down in his lap and pout.


That's all of the interesting (read: Bean-related) pictures I have from the Texas trip. Lame, I know. But, I do have a couple that I meant to post a while ago. They show Bean's 'new' toy, which we dubbed 'The Chirpy,' for obvious reasons. It is softer than his normal toys, though, so we had to enact a strict no-chewing policy. Instead, he proxy chews by balancing his bone on the ball and chewing on it instead. He's clever like that.

Summer is amazing. That's all I have to say. I do nothing but sit around and watch TV anymore. I'm too busy doing that to update this blog even.

A new quarter is here (classes include Pharmacology, Endocrinology, Neurology, Radiology II, Food Animal Anatomy, along with electives Immunology and Zoo and Wildlife) and I got a whole bunch of new toys to celebrate (console myself?).

Meanwhile, Mike got himself a real Mac and turned into one of those people. He's going to start designing apps for the iPhone with the new Mac Mini he got. I must say, it is an incredibly tiny and cute computer. Right now we're tossing around ideas to make an app for learning veterinary anatomy, since there are a million human anatomy ones but very few that apply to vet med.


And as if that wasn't enough electronics for a small Malaysian town, we bought a new printer to add to the mix. It's wireless! Which me and my laziness love to pieces.


Spending loan money is fun. I also splurged on some planty things for our back porch, now that the sun has returned. For flowers, we have honeysuckle and phlox planted in the dirt around the porch, but neither of those have really taken off yet. In pots (out of Bean-pee range) I've got spinach, red bell peppers, basil, oregano, rosemary and cilantro starting to sprout now. The spinach is doing the best right now, probably because it's a cool weather vegetable and we live in perpetual winter up here.

That's gonna be spinach one of these days!

Oh, and you may not be able to see very well, but those huge rocks in the corner behind the bench? We had to dig those up in order to plant the honeysuckle and phlox. It was like a really sucky treasure hunt. From what we can tell, some douche that lived here before had a rock garden and then some douche that lived here after them just decided to cover over it with a thin layer of dirt. Makes for fun gardening.

I got new glasses too! But I don't have a picture of that yet, as they haven't come in. They look something like this, though: http://www.go-optic.com/store/eyeglasses/details.asp?CAT=1&ID=30342. Maybe I'll put up a picture of them when I post again in the next couple of months or so.

Armageddon has arrived. Ohio State main campus closed for a snow day.

I had many things to get done and many things to study in the sudden time off, but I knew that I was overdue for posting some Bean pictures, so instead I just went outside and played snow games with Bean. I hope you all appreciate it if I fail out of vet school because of this.

First there's this one, from a while ago. It will give you a level of snow to compare to in the later videos.

Wait for the ball.

Dive after the ball.

Where's the ball go? Ball? Ball?

See the ball.

Dig for the ball.

And dig for the ball.

Finally find the ball.

Surrender the ball to Leahanne for further torture.

Look sad.

Also, Valentine's Day/our anniversary was fine, blah blah. I did make this cake from scratch, which was awesome. It's a chocolate chiffon cake with chocolate mousse filling, covered by a chocolate ganache and an assortment of berries. Jealous?

Okay, quick update on my life.

Ohio winter has gotten out of hand and decided to bury me (although mostly my bug) under layers and layers of snow. Not only do I have to use a full on snow shovel to get my car out of the parking spot every morning, but today, I had to shovel out the parking spot to even get /into/ it. Yes, the snow got so deep in the few hours I'd been gone that my car got stuck just trying to park. So yeah, I think I'm over the snow-is-so-cool! phase.

I recently survived a full two weeks of midterms and am now enjoying a week or so of not having to study for anything in particular. It's fantastic. I probably should be catching up on all the other classes I'm behind on, but then I'm also behind on my Wii-playing and TV-watching. Priorities.

Oh, and, as the title implies, I have a few more professor lookalikes. Blogger's stupid and won't let me put the pictures side by side, so the formatting's as good as it's gonna get.

There's Dr. Mathes, professor of immunology and professional dick, aka Billy Bob. I think Billy Bob's picture personifies the smugness with which Dr. Mathes lectures.



Then Dr. Rikihasa, our bacteriology professor, a more subdued clone of Edna Mode. She wears GIGANTIC glasses to lecture, though she is admittedly not sassy enough to fill E's shoes.



And I can't find any picture of Dr. Premanandan, our reproductive histology professor. It really sucks, because (I'm sure Brandon will be excited to know) he looks EXACTLY like Michael Dorn. I didn't even realize it until he told us in class that he hears, "you look like that Star Trek guy," all the time. But it makes so much sense now that I see a picture of this guy.


That's all. I'll try and take some Bean-in-Snow pictures/video with all of my newfound free time.

Ok, yeah, this is really late. I blame my finals and my exceeding laziness when it comes to anything not test-related. But we had Thanksgiving here! And I made a turkey! Well, a turkey breast, but it still counts! I brined it the night before with Tony Chachere's, then rubbed it with butter and baked it. So delicious. I'm gonna see if I can do a full turkey next year. Maybe. The laziness, you know.