Yeah, this is going well...

So much for my "oh, I'm going to update my blog every day" resolution.

Not that much has happened. I guess I should probably tell the story of my experience as a goat doctor, though.

I was at work on Tuesday, April 1, and I was listening to our voicemail. There was a message on there from some people about a sick goat, and they wanted to know if we could help. Being inclined to help animals, I gave them a call and got the details. Turned out the goat had gotten her leg stuck or something, injured it in some way, and her owners were very upset, because it had happened a couple weeks before but they couldn't get a vet to come look at it. Like, no vet would come, because they'd definitely tried. There was also the complication that she was due to kid at any time.

So I hauled Rachael along and we went to go look at it. The owners were extremely grateful; it was sort of funny really. They were talking over each other, telling us about the goat, who was actually their grandchildrens who lived next door. I looked at the knee, and it was definitely hot and swollen. There was a lot of fluid, but she didn't seem to be in a lot of discomfort. A quick call to Mom confirmed what I thought, she needed her knee drained of all the fluid that had accumulated, so I had to tell them that the only option was for them to find a vet to drain it, and put hot compresses on it. They were very nice people, and insisted on paying me - "for gas" they said. The lady wrote me a check for $35, which was much more than I'd expected.

Otherwise, not much going on. I've spent the last two nights up late trying to get projects done. It stinks. I'm going to be here all weekend though and I plan on devoting Saturday to homework, cleaning, and necessary errands (and maybe unnecessary errands...I got a $25 tanning giftcard at the ag dept Christmas party that I still need to use. I've never been tanning before...)

It's been raining like crazy. I love listening to the rain, but I hate the fact that there's a dip in the sidewalk in front of the dorm, and it'll fill up with water six feet across. And it's deep, too, so you can't splash through. You have to find a way to get around it, which is incredibly annoying.

New season of "Doctor Who" premiered last Saturday. I really like it so far, there's another new(ish) companion; Donna Noble, played by Catherine Tate (who is hilarious!), who was also in the 2006 Christmas special. Of course, she's really funny, and the interactions between Donna and the Doctor are great. The best part, though, was about two minutes and forty-five seconds from the end, when Donna is about to leave to travel with the Doctor. She chucks the keys to her mother's car in a bin (trash can) and tells a blond woman to tell her mother it's "that bin there." Yeah, I know, it sounds lame, but then the blond woman turns around, and it's Rose! She was the first companion in this series, and she and the Doctor were totally in love but weren't admitting it to each other, and then she was trapped in a parallel universe, and there was supposed to be no way for her to ever get back, but she is, and nobody knows how, except that she turned and walked away and when she did she faded, and there've been clips someone took of them filming a scene where there was a bright light and then she ran out. But, she was my favorite character, and she's back, which is what matters!

And I'm bored with this, so I'm probably going to go find some episodes of TV shows I like that I haven't seen yet and clean my room.