Fish with No Bra
Episode 17. Laura Bailey (part two)
On this, part two of our conversation with Laura Bailey, Matt and Laura go on to discuss Christmas parties, expensive signs, and how we'll know when we've arrived.
If you missed it, be sure to check out part one of this two-part conversation!
Laura Bailey is still a small animal general practitioner living in coastal North Carolina. She and her husband, Clayton, own a small animal practice in Morehead City, North Carolina.
A note on the photograph
The year was 2016. A group of young vet students were tasked with devising a presentation on African Swine Fever. Ever the pair of effervescent dreamers, Matt and Laura wanted this to be a creative endeavor. For, is the simple transmission of information tantamount to education!? Wethinks not.
Enabled by Clayton’s encouragement - Laura’s fiancé and human Labrador; armed with Jeremy’s encyclopedic knowledge of intergalactic nerd-ery; and made possible by the playful courage of Melissanne and Colton.
Power Point is an innefective tool for teaching anything
We created a science fiction adventure story where in the future the five of us have been tasked to save the pig population of a terraformed Mars ravaged by African Swine Fever. But because the only information we knew about the disease came from a Power Point Presentation back in vet school - and because Power Point is an ineffective tool for teaching anything - we needed help from our past selves. So our future selves interrupted the presentation to gain some insight before landing on the planet.
The resulting genre-defying theatrical event involved present-day selves in the classroom communicating with the future selves on the screen, enlisting the help of our unsuspecting classmates to help crack the codes and re-establish communication, and a duel between our captain and a nosy reporter (and Anatomy-professor lookalike) trying to expose it all!
It is important to note that this presentation was not graded nor was it a part of any class in the curriculum. That is to say - we went a little overboard.
