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it seems like being home I have more to do than at school! Basically I was recruited on friday to play drums on a jazz recording....so I had to practice with the group saturday, then practice by myself, practice by myself sunday, practice by myself and with the group monday, practice by myself, practice with the group, tune the drums, tear them apart and take them to the studio on tuesday, and today I had to go record some tracks in the morning, and I have to go back tonight to record more.

This schedule wouldn't be too bad, but then tonight, after I get everything done and I get home, I have to spend the evening setting everything up again in my basement for morning rehersal with another group.

So that means friday I get a day off, but then the weekends are busy....At least I don't have a job.

Anyone else here losing their relaxation time for one reason or another. Just had to vent, because I was looking forward to getting rid of all of my stresses this week (like school and whatnot), and I end up getting more. Funny how that works.

Also...lizards seem to be doing well over here...fat sam (mali uro) is shedding like crazy, sydney (BD) is being his normal stubborn self, and Speckles (leopard gecko) is still quite afraid of me.

don't get me started on venting or it may never stop but yes i am extremely stressed as it is the end of the semester in grad school and more crap just seems to be coming out of nowhere. still have a 25 page paper to write that i have not even started and have to present on in a week, but at least the final draft is not due till may 12 and that paper is about 1/6th of all the stuff i have to do in the next week/week and a half.
but at least you are getting to play music, i am just working on my carpel tunnel typing papers and projects.
didn't you get some tests or something done on sam awhile back? how did they ever turn out?
at least the lizards are doing well and they are there to make you smile
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vonnie
***There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it. Mary Wilson Little ***

we had to take her in after christmas because she had stopped eating and wasn't acting anywhere near right. A fecal revealed that she had pinworms, but we also got some blood work done because her urates were yellow (a sign of liver problems). It turns out the blood tests did reveal definite signs of liver disease, and the vet wasn't actually optimistic about it at all. He figured that, being presumably a very old lizard, it was probably going to be the end of her, and he said that if she wasn't eating, we should bring her in and they would put her on an IV. I know that all that stress would have just made it worse though, so instead I improvised. I went to the grocery store and picked up some non flavored pedialyte, some gerber peas babyfood, and a feeding syringe. I started force feeding this mixture 2-3 times a day, and by the 3rd day she started eating on her own again and it was all uphill from there.

I actually haven't felt the need to go in and get follow up tests done yet. For a lizard of her age and background she is doing very well, dispite being very much overweight (something the vet thinks will probably remain the same for the rest of her life...I know I haven't been able to get her to lose much weight). I figure that the liver problems were probably only secondary to not eating because of the pinworms problem, which had gotten out of hand because she didn't show any signs of problems until late into it. Because of this, jumpstarting her body was basically all she needed. I actually didn't get much of the panicur into her, but it doesn't appear as though she really needed it too much.

As far as the music, yeah, at least I'm getting to do something that's [usually] pretty fun, but I've just been so stressed out about everything lately (which has been especially bad because my girlfriend has been away in germany for the past two weeks), I was looking forward to just being able to relax. It's 10:12 at night right now and I still need to feed my leo his crix, exercise, practice some snare drum stuff on a practice pad (which takes a good 30-60 minutes), review my other percussion stuff (mallets, timpani, etc.), and set my drums up for rehearsal tomorrow. The recording went pretty well today by the way.

But having to write a long paper...that's really got suck. I hate writing the [comparatively] short essays I have to write now. Good luck with it.

well i am glad that she is doing as well as can be expected. i figured she was ok but i just wanted to know what the tests had said. i think my mali hugo wants to be a chubbo too. he is in the process of growing so right now he is eating to grow but just not growing yet. i wish i had a camera. his neckrolls are so cute.
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vonnie
***There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it. Mary Wilson Little ***