Everybody's workin for the weekend

Okay so I love my job. It's foaling season so I've gotten a couple of these so far. This little squirt was born at the hospital to a mare that was a high risk pregnancy due to a cardiac arrhythmia (decompensated atrial fibrillation with signs of congestive heart failure for all my medically oriented readers). I was really worried about her and her momma, but everything worked out well, and they've been discharged from the hospital and are happy and wonderful.

Things obviously don't always work out so well-I also received a day old foal in severe sepsis that in spite of all kinds of fancy treatments did not make it. But at least we gave him a shot.

Things are ridiculously slow at work today so I am reading some journal articles and thinking about this weekend which I have off!!! Days when I have actually off, no on call, no worries come only once every 1o weeks, so this is very very exciting. I'm going riding with one of my internmates Saturday morning, but other than that I have no plans. Hopefully just a lot of lounging around in the sun and reading.

I'm currently reading a book called "the Weight of Silence" Good so far, but nothing spectacular. Books that I have read recently and would recommend include "Her Fearful Symmetry" by Audrey Niffenger (author of "the Time Traveler's Wife"). This newer book has the same beautiful writing style, and a very original story line that, like "the Time Traveler's Wife", veers off into the world of fantasy while staying entirely believable. Also, I really liked "Year of Wonders" a novel by Geraldine Brooks about the plague in 17th century rural England. It was a great story and very well written and researched, but I enjoyed her other novel "March" a little better. "March" is a story about the March family from the Louisa May Alcott classic "Little Women" told from the perspective of the March parents. It's much more honest that the classic, and brought a real depth to the story that I read several times growing up.

Hopefully reading will take my mind off residency match results. I find out if/where I'm going on Monday. Fingers crossed!