I will be updating this post periodically. September 8, 2019: The ability to experience nature I am grateful for the fact that I can walk down a trail, hear water rushing by, see into the vast expanse that is the interior of Alaska, smell decaying leaves and wet dirt as fall makes her presence known, and feel the brisk but (at least currently) forgiving breeze, carrying me deeper into the wilderness.

So I guess I took the summer off from blogging. Whoops! This post will catch us up to today, September 1st, 2019. A lot of really fun stuff happened this summer. I’ll touch on the highlights. For starters, Jake and I adopted a new dog! Well, sort of. This is Rosie (the small-ish dog behind Maya). She was my mother and father-in-law’s dog; we decided to take her to Alaska with us and to socialize her a bit.

So much to say! For starters, I survived finals week (we had 8 finals this go) and I am 1⁄4 of the way to becoming a veterinarian!!!! I say it ever post, it is INSANE how fast time files. Everyone told me when I started school that the next four years would be a blur, and they were not lying. Once the school year wrapped up (I finished my finals on the 16th), Jake and I quickly packed up the car and drove back to Colorado because Jake had a work meeting that he had to attend in person.

Thank you to whoever created this comedic gem and posted it on the internet. To all my veterinary peeps—my question is this… lasagna or endocarditis????? You decide! ~Angela

This blog is in need of an update! Sorry it’s been such a long time; not that this is an excuse but I have been super busy with school lately. We went through an unrelenting several weeks of exams. The crazy thing is that getting through that gauntlet popped me right out at the end of the semester. I’ve only got two weeks left of class and a week of finals, and then I will be DONE WITH MY FIRST YEAR!

I’m a week shy of being halfway through this spring semester. It’s crazy how fast time flies! I don’t have a whole lot of updates. The out of the ordinary thing that happened this week was my overnight volunteer shift with the Two Rivers 100⁄200 sled dog race. One other veterinary student and I stayed at the Pleasant Valley Store (a little convenience store about 40 minutes away from Fairbanks) from midnight until 8am to check in with mushers as they trickled in to the rest stop.