It’s Not All Puppies and Kittens

I admit to having a kind of short attention span. I get distracted easily and I’m really good at procrastinating. That said, I’m currently actually making progress with a set of case reports for a continuing education course that are, say, a few months overdue. On top of actually writing the reports, the most frustrating [...]

 
It’s Valentine’s Day. Most romantic day of the year, or a pile of steaming Hallmark claptrap? For some it’s a day of expectations and romance, for others feelings of contempt or loneliness. It’s only one day, it gets to have a brief appearance between other commercial performances like Christmas, selling made-in-China Australian flags for Australia [...]

 
For the purposes of maintaining a professional facade  and a reputation of being highly educated individuals with a solid grounding in the sciences, it’s probably a good thing that the general public are not party to many of the conversations that go on in a veterinary hospital. Not only do the people who exist within [...]

It feels a little odd to be celebrating anything given the state of the world right now, but for a moment of self indulgence and reflection – I’m another year older today(well, yesterday by the time I post this). Meanwhile over here on the east coast of Australia, we have one state under water and [...]

I’ve got quite a substantial ‘to read’ pile, as one could reasonably expect if you’ve seen my bookshelves. Although I’ve also got a ever growing ‘wish list’ kept in a pretty journal, but as much as I love writing lists, I’m not one for writing journal entries in an actual book. Far from being a [...]