Some New Things

Just got a new laptop, SugarPuff, after the last one's motherboard blew up. Is it bad that I'm missing a laptop? :( Realised I was really horrible last night and left SugarPuff next to JellyBean's corpse all night. The death of Jelly was partially the reason for the lack of blogging but have to say, I'm just crap at updating.
Overall things have been really good recently, got a part time job as a zookeeper, which is rather fun, I genuinely love it. End up shattered afterwards though.
It's the last day of my first year at this college, although I finished the course last week, this week has been thrilling as a result. Do go on a five week work placement after the half term at a local wildlife hospital - really hope there are fox cubs to play with, and birds! Love birds, especially psittcines and birds of prey :D

Saw Guns 'n Roses night before last at the MEN in Manchester. Thin Lizzy opened for them, they were quite good, I enjoyed it but the crowd was a bit shitty. It's difficult to get excited in a room full of unexcited people, that said, never seen the MEN so empty O.o
G n' R were EPIC though!! Loved them, and all three guitarists were AMAZING, Richard Fortus has really nice hands btw, is that weird? It was an amazing gig, lots of flashy lights and pyrotechnincs, over ran by about two hours though, didn't mind too much tbh, was fun. Did mean I only got to bed at about 3.50 before a 6.30 start. fun. 
Would do it again any day though, they were so worth the money. Not just so that I can rub in in my stepmommy's face either. 


Some more about the job and why it's epic. 
Get to work with some rather cool animals, ring-tailed lemur who are so fun to hand feed, a grumpy serval, Brazilian tapir, which are just big doggies. You can just walk up to them, scratch them under the chin and they will honestly just flop over onto the floor and roll over - so cute! 
However, DO NOT APPROACH UNKNOWN TAPIRS! Although multiple accounts imply that most tapirs, Brazilian ones anyway seem to react like this. 
That said the Malaysianones have a reputation for being iffy.  
Malaysian tapir - DO NOT TOUCH

Brazilian tapir - APPROACH WITH CARE, but they do like cuddles.
There are also alpaca, not llama, sheep, poultry with the world's most violent goose, shitty  ponies and porcupine. On the subject of porcupine, I want a porcupine called Mike that I can harness train and take for walks.
There are also a few birds of prey and parakeets, only got one Senegal parrot too.

But what I tend to end up working most with is these:

 The Emperor Newts, Tylototriton shanjing, NOT verrucosus are my favourite :)
There was some iffiness about the species classification.
I don't mind working with the Bearded Dragons, quite like some of them. The snakes still scare my loads though, being attacked by the Amazoinan Boa didn't help my perception of them as evil scary prehistoric monsters.
Attacked is probably a strong word, but she went for me, didn't get me though so it was okay. Kinda wish she had though, would have been awesome to show off with :p


The only difference is that the one at work is more patterned and purpleier and secretes evil, bitchy vibes.


My best friend is also moving this weekend :( Spending the first part of half term with her, and and it's going to be horrible without her just up the road! At the same time it's really scary,she has her own, relatively successful business and is moving out while I still have years of education stretching ahead of me O.o
And it's so grown up! We're not old enough to do that sort of thing yet!

So excited to have my A2 exams over with soon and to doing my work placement! the latter more so. There is also the summer ball coming up and I'm going home again!
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Too little coffee and too much to do...

...Well that's what it seems like most of the time at the moment.

Gone back to what was the original layout as it's easier to read and personally, I find it more aesthetically pleasing. Also the last one reminded me perpetually of Easter and spring.
Speaking of which, hope those of you (that's if anyone actually reads this) that celebrated it had a good time.
Also, in the northern hemisphere it is currently spring, so it would have been topical, but it annoyed me, so had to go.

Decided to give up with pet related posts, seems to have been a bit of an upheaval as far as they're concerned and the numbers fluctuate too quickly for me to keep up. May even been more additions in September/October.

Will see.

Not much else to say.
Got a job as a part time zookeeper
Can feel stress levels rising daily along with a marked decrease in intelligence and patience.
There also seems to be a definite problem with time, it seems to be a bit lacking recently.

Will have more to say when motivated

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I want a Serval

Or at the least a Savannah cat

The idea of weekly updates seems to have been defenestrated, will try write more regularly than once every few months though.

Now have (another) cat, this little one was found in the engine bay of a hyundai. Not only did he have to go throw the shame of being mistaken for a girl, but a few days later in a scrap with one of the other cats, was blinded.
Vet removed the cornea and he is apparently doing fine :D

College has broken up for the Christmas holidays, but the lecturers have kindly given me a sizable amount of coursework (which I have barely started and already lost) to amuse myself with. Amazingly I had all my present  shopping done by the beginning of December, proving that I do, occasionally, have the ability to organise myself. That said it did seem a fair bit easier than it usually does.
The main issue this year seems to be getting it to people, not sure if I'd want to post the parcels either.


OH! My greatest achievement for the year so far, managing to successfully get into, and served at, a handful of pubs, WITHOUT ID.
Taking into consideration I look about 15. The bouncers clearly loved me :p
Although my friend reckons it was the 'sexy santa' outfit; was out raising money for charity, don't judge. Seriously, it deserves more recognition than getting a couple of Bs in my first year of A levels

Now really have to get that coursework started.

xx

More Pets!

I've told you (and shown you awesome drawings) of my chickens, of which we sadly only have two left of.
So now you're getting all the others. Was originally going to do several separate ones, the cats, the other cats, my special princess cat, the dogs and Bird but as I have absolutely nothing else to do today, you're getting treated to a massive long one.
Funfun.

Actually, I'll just do the kitties today, I'm not that desperate.

The African Cats
Both of these children are part AWC, but how much we're not too sure about. Although the general consensus is that the Little One is a product of Mr Cat II's  wanderings before he had his bits removed. While she has the more African Wild Cat markings, and shorter fur, Missy has the better colour.

Now for a Fantastic, Wonderfully Accurate drawing:

But the issue, you see, is that this first drawing wasn't that accurate. I hadn't met the Little One yet when I drew it a few months ago, and it's been a year since I'd seen Missy, who'd changed considerably.

So, here is a more Wonderfully Accurate drawing:
The Little one is honestly the living incarnation of Simon's cat, as far as wanting food goes.






Frodo,Pippin and Rosie-Roo
Now this lot we got when they were about three weeks old, and hand reared. They were originally a semi-feral litter of farm cats but as their mother was a useless queen (kept leaving poor Roo in front of the tractor) we took them off her. The vet and my mom were both skeptical about their survival, they had serious eye infections, coughs and were drastically undersized. Think I was the only one who wasn't convinced Roo was going to die, even at 8 weeks she wasn't the healthiest kitten around, I was also one of a tiny handful of people who could clearly see she was a gorgeous baby, not an ugly scrap of tufty fluff.
As a result of not being let out of my sight, and rarely out of my hoodie pockets for a few months her and I have the most amazing relationship. I get so much love off this tiny cat that if I cuddle one of the boys too much while she is there she goes off in a massive mood and won't talk to or sleep with me for days.

We've just come out of one of those little huffs,  they're not nice.

The two boys :D Frodo (on the right) has actually put on a lot more weight muscle since that was taken.

My Roo-baby. She's currently lying at the end of the bed, she gets annoyed when she has to share my lap with Jellybean. There is nothing at all wrong with naming my laptop.

And that's a selection of my fuzzies!

I'm typing over a cat, it's quite awkward

Well this week has knackered me, that's for sure. My knees are getting so bad that soon my only option will be to send myself to the glue factory. Even my shoulders are now getting to the point where OTHER PEOPLE can hear them. Seriously.

Second week of the official timetable at my new college and still loving it, although will admit I'd forgotten just how messy budgies are O.o
and there were about 20 of them to clean up after.

Cat on my lap is trying to make herself less of a hinderance to typing by being flat.

If I had a complaint, it'd be the unconventional timetable. It just really annoys me, we have more time out of lesson per day than in it. But I love the lake, and sitting by it watching the ducks, although with the weather turning a bit ickky I doubt I'll be out doors much.

On Wednesday I went to Blackpool to see the lights and eat ice cream in the torrential rain. Been there before, but that was for the national qualifiers a few years ago, and only saw the inside of a sports hall. It was really fun, ended up soaking and very cold, but bought a sweet shop's worth of yummies which made up for it.

Really need to stop eating so many cupcakes and sweets.
...Actually, that's probably why I feel like I have the past few days, on the down after a week or so long sugar rush.

So that was a late night,followed, very cleverly, by another. There was some odd german themed evening at the college bar, which was really, really fun. Up until then just about everyone I'd met was on my course, so it was a chance to socialise and get to know a wider range of farmers.
Although the love of tractors seems to be an across the board thing.
Discovered that two pint glasses are HEAVY and need to be held with both hands too. Oh, the cat has gone now.

Friday is the day that I'm now working on, so I get free weekends!  And there had to be a cat that was sick when I was nursing a hangover. Yay.

Just remembered, have a ton of promised posts that I haven't done for the four or five of you that read this, will get to those.

Yesterday I did something entirely new and will admit when I first heard what I was being  dragged to I was a bit reluctant.
We went to a gamer cafe and I watched my rather cool friends take part in a Yugioh tournament. It was really fun and I loved the people there, Everyone was really chatty and I made some amazing new friends, it was nothing like what I'd have expected at all. AwkwardGiraffe and I put a lot of thought into a foolproof, and very professional, gaming tactic. Unfortunately it wasn't really suitable considering the age of her opponent.  So that was all good.
What really messed with my head a bit for the first half hour or so was that the cafe is in the same place my old fencing club used to be, kept expecting to see the pistes or people I knew there.
Marshmallow fluff also contributed to the awesomeness of the day :)

Now, onto the promised posts!

Lots of new things

Well firstly, as mentioned in my last post, my AS grades weren't entirely peachy. Due to the fact all the universities look at predicted grades, and mine weren't predicted high enough, it is highly unlikely that I'd be accept if I applied this year.
Although I did consider going for the gateway vet course, which is a six year degree and let's you in with slightly lower grades. Sounds like a bit of a lifesaver doesn't it?
that there are only 25ish places on the course in the entire country is a bit of a downside though.
Another alternative was going back to my quaint little, but very accommodating, high school sixth form. Where, due to only being a squigdey bit off an A, I'd continue A2 biology and do chemistry, maths and something else at AS (either art or english lit.), ultimately qualifying with four A levels.
Now this was rather tempting.

But what I've decided to do, and am going to enroll  in about an hour, is a BTEC in  Animal Management  at my local agricultural college. Also going to try finish off my biology and chemistry A levels at night school as well. Not only is it an amazing looking course, but I get still get into vet school with it.
What I found rather attractive was that the college full of  well-off farmer's sons  that if, due to the competitive nature of vet school's, it's something I can use. While A levels are all snazzy, they don't really qualify you much for other than going to uni, this is something usable. And looks really, really fun.
They have hawks, a several, wallabies and poison frogs and and..pretty much their own zoo for you to play with.
Also a little scared of re-taking my AS, only to get the same results, this is something completely new.

And!!!
I'm now 18 >.<

Not happy about being old, that's for sure.
Gave my youth a good send off though. It involved a pirate hat, a gay talk, lots, and lots of kisses with even more rum.
So that was quite fun, although think we killed another chicken with the stress.
She was fine sunday morning,even lay,  but after everyone had gone in the early afternoon, we found her dead :(
Now only two left.

So yeah, thats about it for this week really.

A post! Something that's been a bit rare recently..

Might have a dead rabbit in my room.
But I like the idea that there isn't one more, so will run with that.

Speaking of dead things, one of my rescued chickens, Buttercup, passed away last week. We came home to find she'd prolapsed to the point where 85% of her insides were out. Apparently it's quite rare, but due to how battery chickens are raised, it's a probability rather than a possibility. Now really scared about the other girlies.

I know I've not been particularly active on here, but to be honest, not been too active in general as far as the internet goes.

For the last two weeks I've been doing work experience in a couple of vet practices, got to see some laparoscopic ops and discovered the existence of rainbow coloured surgical instruments, the latter excited me very, very much.
My birthday is this week. HINT.

On a similar vetty note, I'm really scared about applying, didn't do as well as I should have, or as my competitors will have done with their AS, so al I have to recommend me at the moment is a absolutely fabulous personality and promises to do A LOT better this coming year. Also terrified of writing my personal statement.

You think sleeping with the admissions board will get me anywhere? ;)

(if there is an admissions person reading this, you never know with the 'net, I am joking)

This weekend has also been rather hectic, I was a bit silly and decided to send the summer off with a metaphorical bang.
Went straight from work on friday to a party, which I left Saturday morning to to work some more, napped for two hours then went out to party more!
Before heading into Manchester to do a bit of shopping. 



Today was the first 'day' of college and I was knackered.
Thankfully there were no lessons, there wasn't much of much really. 
Little disappointing, although discovered my time table now includes thirteen frees as opposed to last year's three. What am I going to do with myself?! O.o