Wow! I had been enjoying the spring weather so very very much, and this week has destroyed it!!
This week I have been to a training at Natural Bridge, Kentucky. This is in eastern KY, near where I used to practice. It was an enjoyable drive, and a pretty good training. One of my coworkers went, and it was nice to converse as we drove along.
We left MOnday about 10:30 and returned the middle of the afternoon on Thursday. When we left, my house had been clean, clothes washed but not folded, floor vacuumed and dishes clean. I returned to -- well, those of you with three men in the house can imagine. I washed clothes last night, but just couldn't face the kitchen. This morning while waiting for Joe to get ready for the school bus I emptied the dishwasher and refilled it.
I will leave next week on Thursday and not return until Sunday night. Probably will be a repeat of the household performance. On second thought, it won't--next week is the boys' spring break and they are spending at least part of it at their Grandmothers. Whee!
I am traveling to the Annual Conference at Auburn University College of Veterinary Medicine. This is a continuing education meeting and also my 20th class reunion. It is unbelievable to me that I have been out of vet school for 20 years. In some ways it seems like yesterday--but then I think of all the things that have happened to me since--and it seems like a lifetime.
I also look back on all the classmates with whom I have lost touch and it is somewhat sad. We spent 4 years together struggling to learn and understand the body of knowledge that was presented. At that point, we were equals. The same classes, the same profs, the same challenges. Now, we are more dissimiliar than we are similiar. There are some who have gone on to get more advanced degrees and board certifications, others who have built wildly successful practices, others who may have done nothing at all. Not even practiced. We're all just older. In some ways I'm not sure I want to see them--but then again I can't wait.
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I know what you mean about the reunion. The one high-school one I've been to I looked forward to and dreaded at the same time. But I was glad I went!
I know you will enjoy yourself once you get over being self-conscious. I went to a 40th high school reunion last fall, and nobody knew who I was. However, once all the reintroductions were made, we had a really good time!
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