Not an SPN recap
Thursday, 8 May 2008 21:52![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
krisomniacNo Supernatural for me tonight. *single emo tear* I fear I shall have to wait until the episode is posted to cwtv.
To pass the time, I have decided to watch from way back in season one. Remember that? When Sammy was a fresh-faced college student? I'd forgotten how hard he's grown over the past few years, and how much Jared has grown up. Remember when they didn't know what had killed their mom? Remember "saving people, hunting things"? Remember when Dean didn't have that massive weight on his completely perfect shoulders and he stuck spoons in Sam's mouth while he was sleeping?
In the spirit of reminiscing, what's your favorite episode or quote from past seasons? What are your favorite ways the series and boys have changed?
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In other news things are going well at the clinic. It's a bit slow, so I've been doing busy work and obsessively reading the news to pass the time. This weekend, I'm mucking stalls which -- while not the most fun way to spend the morning -- brings me back to my roots, you know?
When there is stuff going on, it's really fun and they've done a great job of including me. In fact, today I euthanized my first horse. I've been present at many euthanasias, but never pulled the proverbial trigger. It was... easier than I'd expected, especially considering the slightly presumptive nature of his diagnosis (which is really bad if it's what really he had). There were just those last minute butterflies and I was all thumbs when it came down to administering the pentobarbitol (aka blue juice).
I dunno. I think even though he was a sweet, old, perfect kid's trail horse, it was ultimately the right thing to do since there was something neurologically wrong, the owner wasn't going to invest any more money in diagnosis or treatment, and some of the differentials high on our list included highly communicable diseases. I guess it's part of the job and better than a lot of ends the horse could have met -- even though with more money and time, we might've been able to do more for him.
Part of me feels a little guilty that I'm not more emotional about it. Aside from bugs, I don't think I've ever killed anything living before.
To pass the time, I have decided to watch from way back in season one. Remember that? When Sammy was a fresh-faced college student? I'd forgotten how hard he's grown over the past few years, and how much Jared has grown up. Remember when they didn't know what had killed their mom? Remember "saving people, hunting things"? Remember when Dean didn't have that massive weight on his completely perfect shoulders and he stuck spoons in Sam's mouth while he was sleeping?
In the spirit of reminiscing, what's your favorite episode or quote from past seasons? What are your favorite ways the series and boys have changed?
~
In other news things are going well at the clinic. It's a bit slow, so I've been doing busy work and obsessively reading the news to pass the time. This weekend, I'm mucking stalls which -- while not the most fun way to spend the morning -- brings me back to my roots, you know?
When there is stuff going on, it's really fun and they've done a great job of including me. In fact, today I euthanized my first horse. I've been present at many euthanasias, but never pulled the proverbial trigger. It was... easier than I'd expected, especially considering the slightly presumptive nature of his diagnosis (which is really bad if it's what really he had). There were just those last minute butterflies and I was all thumbs when it came down to administering the pentobarbitol (aka blue juice).
I dunno. I think even though he was a sweet, old, perfect kid's trail horse, it was ultimately the right thing to do since there was something neurologically wrong, the owner wasn't going to invest any more money in diagnosis or treatment, and some of the differentials high on our list included highly communicable diseases. I guess it's part of the job and better than a lot of ends the horse could have met -- even though with more money and time, we might've been able to do more for him.
Part of me feels a little guilty that I'm not more emotional about it. Aside from bugs, I don't think I've ever killed anything living before.
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2008-05-10 22:17 (UTC)Last night was another "Let's all go to Dr. Dove and have our pets put to sleep!" night. One made me cry, one was sad but not, you know, personally sad, and one I was like, "Okay, gotta get this done so I can see that laceration." It's always hard to predict which ones are going to hit you and which ones aren't. Apparently, human emotions are all, like, complex & shit.
I heard back from the breeder; she has two pups available at the end of June! But, I am not getting one of them, because I can't fly up then and she wants to ship the puppy and I'm like, "To Austin? In June? Uh, no."