Blue Highways

Ok, to start, I really dislike Blue Highways so far.  The style of writing is very different than Northern Lights and I much preferred Vida’s writing style to Heat-Moon’s.  Heat-Moon uses a lot of heavy description entangled with big words that, for me, are quite distracting to what the text is actually trying to say.  I found myself rereading a lot because the sentence structure was so complicated sometimes that I forgot what I was reading.  I don’t know… I just don’t like this book so far.  It’s definitely a more difficult read and I haven’t found it particularly interesting yet so it’s hard sometimes.  Even though Northern Lights was also about travel, I feel like Clarissa had a more appealing reason so just get up and leave her home than Heat-Moon.  Heat-Moon just kind of felt like it.  At least that’s the impression that I got.

Second (yes I have decided to address all three of the blog topics), I did not get the chance to travel at all over spring break.  I really wanted to go to Chicago to go shopping.  I tried to give up shopping for Lent, but that didn’t work out so well.  I feel like a terrible Catholic now, but I couldn’t freaking resist the temptation of $25 hoodies from A&F that were originally $100!!  Felt like a steal to me… Oh, I also bought a couple tank tops from Aeropostale (they were 2 for $20).  So I feel like I should give up something that I absolutely LOVE to punish myself…

Lastly, I’ll take this space to vent a little about my life in general.  So since I didn’t go anywhere for spring break, I spent most of my time at the Gahanna Animal Hospital shadowing the greatest vet ever, Dr. Worman.  I hadn’t been in to shadow since early January before school started back, so it had been a while since I’d been around gross animal stuff.  So as soon as Dr. Worman started telling be about this nasty c-section done on a dog with a ruptured uterus containing dead puppies, I got a little nauseous, and before long, was in their bathroom puking up breakfast.  Sorry that was really gross…  I just hope that stuff like that wont hold me back from being a great vet one day…