My cat has hyperthyroidism--which was quite a bit more expensive to find out than I'd thought it'd be. (My parents are helping me out, but...) But she's home, much happier and healthier now which is the important thing. Taking little pink pills (why their sugar coating is such a bright Barbie pink I don't know) two times a day, and not being nearly as much of a pain about it as I'd expected. I'll probably be trying another vet for her follow-up and future appointment(s) though, so if anyone has any recommendations, let me know. In particular, I'm looking at trying the clinic on Harmony, near my new house--don't know anything about them but I do like that they do discounted spays/neuters. (Ellen doesn't need it, o'course, and I still haven't bothered to fix any of my rats, but it does seem to indicate some compassionate responsibility on the part of the clinic, I'm thinking.)

Got some catching up on reading to do for classes, meantime, which is going rather painfully slowly. I am unimpressed with my textbooks so far, except for my organic chemistry book which seems to be surprisingly good... good thing since o-chem is also by far the hardest class so far. I'm so very rusty on even the basic chemistry stuff... it's painful. But I guess, thinking back, it WAS back in high school when I first learned how to hybridize orbitals and sort electrons and all. Oy. If anyone happens to be especially good with the program "R" or knows any statistics geniuses that might help as well...lol. My actual world philosophies class is less fun than hoped so far, but my history/systems of psychology class (just went over philosophical views of history) is amazing. I think it may only be open to psych majors, but otherwise if you can take it I'd highly recommend it. The teacher seems to mostly stand around telling stories the whole class period; it's awesome and exactly the way history SHOULD be taught IMNSHO. : 0-P Also, no historical dates will be appearing in his tests. Yay! Death to all numbers! Haha.

I need some more fun and social stuff in my life to balance out school. (Need to do some more unpacking, too, lol, but that can wait.) In particular, I'm eyeballing an introductory needlefelting class in north Fort Collins at a store called Lambspun. The class happens to fit into my schedule and seems like a good deal at $29 including supplies. Anyone want to join me in taking it? : 0-) I may eventually look into selling commissioned needlefelted beasties as well, once I've mastered the craft, if anyone's interested in that.
Gotta figure out what sort of little critter I want to make first... hopefully one that won't end up looking too deformed, lol.