What is the haps yo?

I seem to have a knack for writing in this crazy thing when I should desperately be writing something else. At the moment that would be a couple of short "essays" for my Tufts application. This is one of the topics:

3. We are interested in learning more about you in realms outside of the animal world. Please answer one of the following questions.

1. What specific position on an athletic team would you choose for yourself (e.g., goalie, outfielder, coach, owner) and why?
2. If you could have dinner with any historical figure, who would it be? What would you hope to learn from the conversation?
3. What medium of art (e.g., sculpture, photography, theater, dance, architecture) most appeals to you and why? (500 words)

So now I toss this question to you, which one would you choose and what would be your answer? I won't make you write 500 words though. I think I'm going to choose the second one and though my first inclination would be to choose the obvious Abe or George I don't think they are quite what I'm looking for. Instead I'm thinking Harriet Tubman, I did a project on her in 6th grade and dressed up like her and everything and she's pretty badass, escaping from slavery, leading other slaves to freedom, a proponent of women's suffrage, basically the biggest badass in the antebellum south.

Things are going alright, I was going to take this one online physiology class but hey turns out that Oregon residents are DENIED, the place is sort of a diploma mill and not an accredited university (even though I got it approved by vet schools, doesn't help me if I can't take the class! Ha, so yeah, I signed up for a different online physio class through the UC Berkely Extension school, which will be fine. It just means that now I have to email all the vet schools and be like oh hey, that class I told you I was gonna take at the one school, yeaaaaaah that's not really happening anymore, but this one is! I'm sure it'll work out ok, it is just annoying.

Annnnnnnnnd, I took the Bio GRE last saturday. It was fine. There were 15 people taking either Biology or Biochem tests, two were wearing sandals and socks, gotta love the Portland style : ) The test wasn't too terrible, some of the plant questions were just silly. How exactly glucose gets from the leaves into the phloem is something that I'm pretty sure I can get through life just fine without knowing. It takes like 6 weeks to get scores, so hope for me that they are good and that Georgia might give me a chance!

Oh! and I got that job at the vet hospital! So this week will by my 4th week there. The people are all super nice and everyone is very helpful and it is a pretty great place to work so far. Last week we each got $100, just for being awesome? I guess they like to do a little something for all of the "health care team" employees and they've had a good year business wise so I got a little card and 100 bucks, which is just fine with me! Mmm part of my job is to go around the outside of the hospital and pick up trash, there's a bus station right outside and that accumulates a fair amount of trash, but last week we found a TV remote, so far the strangest thing to find discarded in the bushes outside a veterinary hospital. They are having a pumpkin carving contest and I did a DNA double helix all the way around the pumpkin, so it's circular, I guess that would make it bacterial DNA! ok, I'll stop with the nerdyness. Anywho, it didn't turn out as spectacular as I wanted but I'll post a picture soon.

Additionally, I'm going to New York next month! Yay! My dad has this meeting there every year and when we were in high school he would take me or one of my sisters. Since Lauren is living in D.C. now, she is gonna come up to NY and visit at the same time, so it should just be dandy.

Today I went out to the barn and I went to get Ina from the pasture. Her pasture is at the front of the property with the fence bordering the road. At the fence were these three girls, maybe ranging from 11-6 years old? I don't know, I'm a horrible judge of childrens ages. So, they live across the street and they came over to pet the horses and feed them bits of grass so I talked to them for a while, let them give Ina some sugar cubes, told them all of the horse's names. I told one of them that Ina was 4 years old and that apparently excited her because when her sister came back over all she said was "Tiene cuatro años!" over and over. Who knew 4 was so exciting! I wish that I could have invited them into the barn, but it's not my barn and I don't really want to be responsible for three young children so I talked to them a bit more and left as they were cajoling Impy towards the fence with grass. Someday I might have a kid, just to be able to put them on an adorable pony, and you know perhaps for other reasons. That's about it. Adios amigos.