The Week in Tweets on 2010-11-28
Playing Skippity for the first time. This is going to be big. http://instagr.am/p/U0c-/ # This clip from the movie Funky Forest is one of the most bizarre things I have ever watched. It is NSFW… | beak http://bit.ly/desGYH # Badge turned in, office almost packed up, email nearly sorted, & I'm savoring a gigantic gluten-free last-day-of-this-job chocolate cupcake. # Zen is sick. Time for the vet. http://instagr.am/p/WdUK/ # Back from the vet. Zen was scared, which translated quickly into SCARY. Falconry gloves were used. Now she lounges in the sun near Torgi. # Why would anyone kill a swan? RT @sfappeal: Remaining Palace Of Fine Arts Swan Moved Into Protective Custody http://t.co/xGLZRUA # Today I give thanks for so many things, the first being...
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Torgi and Zen Originally uploaded by cygnoir You can’t force buddy-dom, especially in the world of cats. Torgi and Zen were introduced when they were already adults, and each was quite used to being an only child. I am realistic about what this shot captures: Zen sought out the only patch of sun in the house, and Torgi happened to be near it. Still, I consider this peaceable sharing of space an accomplishment. I still hope they will become buddies one...
Read MoreGiving thanks for tortitude.
I will save you the parade of past Thanksgiving entries. If you’re into that sort of thing, all you need is the “Thanksgiving” tag. Yay for folksonomies! Zen the cat is almost entirely herself again after a terribly close call, and I am overjoyed. She is eating and drinking without incident, and her usual playfulness has returned. Her throat seems a bit scratchy yet, but she is regaining some of her talkative tortitude. Now I think I am ready to relax and get into the spirit of the holiday. I am thankful that you are reading this right now, and hope you have a wonderful day, Thanksgiving or...
Read MoreBad parenting.
To sum up the Zen situation: she seems to be feeling much better tonight. She has been suffering since Monday of lethargy, vomiting, diarrhea, and loss of appetite, and she vomited twice this morning even though she hadn’t eaten much last night, so it was time to take her to the vet. The trip to the vet was as exciting as ever. Zen is perfectly happy to go into her carrier and be lugged anywhere in the world. She is somewhat less happy to be outside of her carrier at the vet’s. I never, ever want to hear Zen like that. Basically, it sounds like someone is skinning her alive. She screams and hisses and tries to claw anyone who gets near her. The vet tech had to wrap her in a towel and was wearing serious-looking protective gloves while she did it. Zen...
Read MoreI suck at celebrating.
My friend Hawk said this to me just now, and it is true. I am in my pajamas, drinking tea and pondering sleep, even though I have nowhere to go tomorrow morning and potentially nowhere to go in a morning-time for a long time. The rest of the creatures in the house are already asleep. One creature in particular is feeling very sick. My dear Zen has lost her appetite and is incredibly subdued. She drinks water from time to time, and eats just a little, then leaves her dish and wanders off to rest fitfully. Tomorrow may hold a trip to the dreaded vet if she does not feel better in the morning. My last day was just about how I expected it to be, but with much better food. Most of the food pictured above was gluten-free! I was suitably impressed. There were goodbyes...
Read Morethe end of this meme and of my job
For the photo a day meme: a photo of you when you were happy. Today I am happy. Tomorrow is my last day at my job. I still believe in the public library’s importance to society, perhaps now more than ever. Some of my colleagues do so much with so little; their perseverance inspired me to pursue an advanced degree in the field. Each day brought a new challenge, and I tried to meet each one with tenacity and grace. I learned more at this job than in all of my prior jobs combined, not only about libraries but about the world and about myself. But my job has changed me in some ways I can no longer abide. I do not like who I have become and I do not like what I have sacrificed in order to deal with the reality of my day-to-day. This decision was not made...
Read Morea photo a day, day 29
For the photo a day meme: a photo of someone you find attractive. Indeed.
Read MoreThe Week in Tweets on 2010-11-21
This makes me so happy. Via laughingsquid: New TMBG logo | beak http://bit.ly/9qjuOe # My Top 3 Weekly #lastfm artists: Sarah Vaughan (16), Ben Folds (11) & Dntel (9) http://bit.ly/9AOZf1 # My avg. daily #fitstats for last week: 4,832 steps, 2 miles, 1,780 calories burned via my fitbit http://www.fitbit.com/user/22D4J8 # Nightmares three nights running: earthquakes, zombies, plague. And all of them preferable to being made to feel lousy at work. # Accident on tracks in Inner Sunset; unclear what happened, but inbound N trains are stopped. Now on a packed 6 bus. #munifail # I feel very close to the failures of my heart today, and closer to the lessons those failures have taught me now that I am listening. # I envy you JoCo Cruise Crazy cruisers … check...
Read Morefountain pens and mountain man
It is starting to rain again. The kitchen is an unholy disaster, which can only mean that FunkyPlaid and I just spent a fantastic evening hosting dear friends for dinner. Both cats are in my study, restless yet too lazy to shepherd me into bed. I am tired without sleepiness, and I should be doing homework but instead I am listening to Mountain Man and uninstalling horrible browser extensions that tell me too much about things that don’t matter. I am thinking about things I want to do that require some planning, like going to The French Laundry and visiting Las Vegas and knitting something significant like a whole sweater that someone actually wears. That is about as far as I have gotten: thinking about them. At the Flax pen fair, I tested some pens from...
Read Morea photo a day, day 28
For the photo a day meme: a photo of something you cooked or baked. Really? I never take pictures of food. This prompt is so awkward. … not really. But it made me notice that for all the food photos I take, I hardly ever take photos of what I cook. I would like to change that. Pictured above: eggs in ham baskets and breakfast...
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