Summer Jobs are Over... School Starts Soon!

Well this past weekend, I worked at a horse show.  For the last time this summer, thankfully.  I do like being at the horse shows, but I've gotten really sick after the last 2 shows.  Plus the topic of Brutus's death inevitably comes up.  So I'm looking forward to relaxing for a few weeks before school starts.

Monday was my last day of working my vet school job.  For the past few weeks I've been giving a presentation to high school juniors/seniors and their parents, telling them about the prevet/vet tech programs at MSU.  During the presentation I have 4 short videos that I play.  We've been having issues with the sound working, however, and Friday I couldn't get it to work at all, so I had to improvise and basically just present the material that the videos were supposed to cover.  The sound wasn't working again on Monday, but luckily I got there extra early.  I tried everything, from playing with the volume buttons, to restarting the computer, but nothing worked.  So I called the tech people.

About 10 minutes later, a cute little old Asian woman showed up.  Unfortunately I could barely understand her.  Our conversation went something like this:
Asian Woman: "Sound no work."
Me: "Right.  I've given this presentation before on this computer and the sound was fine, so I don't know what's wrong now."
A: "Sound no work."
M: "Right."
A: "Sound no work."
M: "Umm... correct?"
A: "You try volume?"
M: "Yes.  Nothing happened."
A: "Shhh, one second.  I figure it out."
M: "Uhhh okay."
A: "You try volume?"
M: "Yes."
She hits the volume button and sound comes BLARING out of the speakers.
A: "You hit volume button to make sound work."
M: "I tried that.  Really,  I did.  It didn't work."
A: "Volume work now."
M: "Yes.  Thank you."
A: "Volume button make sound work."
M: "I see.  Thank you."
A: "Volume work now.  Bye."
M: "Okay, thanks, bye!"

As she's walking down the hall, I hear her talking on her radio: "She no know how to work volume button."

Ughhh, I tried that, I promise!!! 

Haha, oh well, the volume worked, and the group on Monday was small, so I was able to make it more interactive, which was nice.  It was a good group of people, and a good way to end the job this summer.

Now I'm able to spend about a week and a half with my family and then a week in Illinois, and then school starts!  Ahh!!! I still have to go buy my stethoscope, boots, gloves, books, etc, and waive my school insurance.  I'm sure there's about a million other things I should do, too, but I can't think of them.  I did buy my scrubs, order lab coats, coveralls, a dissection kit, pen light, neuro hammers, reflex hammer, and a class T-shirt though!  This summer is almost over, ahhh!