So here's what's new:
WORK
I started a new job about a month ago as a laboratory technician at a respiratory research facility on the Air Force base. The lab I work in processes (breaks down) tissue samples from animals that have been dosed with radiation (for the purpose of developing treatments for respiratory disorders).
Side note: the FDA requires that drugs cannot be tested on humans until they have been proven safe on at least three species of animals...you learn something new every day!
So anyway, I spend the whole day working on huge batches of tissue samples. It's kind of cool working with stuff that is radioactive! It's a cool job but if I had to do it every day for the rest of my life I would DIE. Definitely not my career of choice. The pay is ok until you look at your pay stub and see a huge chunk of my paycheck go to taxes :( stupid taxes. Is there any way to opt out of paying them? Because I would totally sign up for that.
SCHOOL
A few weeks ago I interviewed at a PA school here in town called St Francis. It's a private school based out of Illinois and is in a building I must have passed a hundred times but never noticed....it's right across from a bar I go to every Wednesday night for Geeks Who Drink (which is awesome!). Anywho, I got my acceptance letter in the mail this week! Classes start January 4th! It's a full-time program that consists of 15 months of school and 12 months of clinical rotations.....after that I'll have a MS in Physician Assistant Studies! And, call me a nerd, but I am really excited to be going back to school :)
My other option would be UNM, since they just got a PA master's program last year, but they haven't even started interviews yet. Their program also has to attend lectures and share cadavers with the med school students, which is pretty lame. If they get their stuff together and call me for an interview soon, I'll consider it, but otherwise I'm sending in my check to St Francis to hold my spot!
KITTY
Little Clementine Woolysocks got some claw caps put on this week because of her awesome habit of scratching the beejesus out of Santiago and I. She is totally psychotic and will scratch for no reason. But the caps have cured her evil ways! She has tried to take a piece out of us but just ends up batting at our arms with her little blunt-tipped nails. Nice try, devil cat! She is so much cuter now that we know she cant sneak attack us anymore!
Clementine just has clear ones for now, but obviously we will be getting the hot pink ones next time!
