It's me again, another year older and maybe wiser. I'm back in Saint Louis, where there are theoretically people who love me. Lately i've been pretty down, and really exhausted; moving was awful, i've got household stress going on, and there's a stray boy living with us while he gets himself sorted out enough to look for a job. I do take in strays ( Read more... )

Dear Jonathan Livingston Severson,

It's been eleven years. And for the last few of those, there's been a scab over what used to be a gaping wound. It's not healed yet, may not completely heal ever, but it's healing, slowly. But i still set this day aside, to grieve your loss and remember you.

I just went back through, actually, and reread all the ( Read more... )

Originally posted by kylecassidy at post
Via Citykitties (emphasis mine):

A good samaritan found this cat today in a gutter by Clark Park, half dead. He is now at the Cat Doctor with a body temperature of 90 (normal is 102) and blood PCV of 8. The Cat Doctor housecat, Diamond, is currently donating blood to save his life. During the exam, the vet found that ( Read more... )

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Jake broke up with me on April 29, 2010. A year and a day is the length of traditional formal mourning ( Read more... )

A long December, and there's reason to believe ( Read more... )

Me (to my friend Bryan): "I seem to be much better at being an ex-girlfriend than a girlfriend. I'm like the Jimmy Carter of girlfriends."

It is JUST NOT TRUE that "he" is a "gender-neutral" pronoun in English. It never has been true. English HAS no gender-neutral pronoun; it lost it centuries ago in the transition from being German.

It IS true that if you don't know the gender of the person you're talking about, you might say "he" -- but that's not because it's "gender-neutral". It' ( Read more... )

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Caret is really NOT working out in my household, at all. But he's a difficult kitty to place -- he's FIV-positive, so he needs a home with no other cats, or an owner willing to get their other cats vaccinated (which still isn't 100% guaranteed, but he's also not bitey with other cats). Frankly, i think he'd love having a dog to play with, he's ( Read more... )