Last night, we walked Tater at the neighborhood park, as usual. It is a small park with a paved walking track, less than two blocks from our house (which is located in a residential area, but not a suburb, as it is mere blocks from the center of the city). Anyway, there is a small (maybe three square blocks) wooded area at the edge of the park. ( Read more... )

It is almost the third anniversary of George Harrison's death.

George was always my favorite Beatle -- the thoughtful, sexy-in-a-quiet-way one.  Many of my favorite Beatles songs are the ones George wrote or had a hand in writing (and some of them were far better than the Lennon/McCartney ones), and his solo work is among the best music ever ( Read more... )

I enrolled for next semester yesterday ( Read more... )

Stuff to be happy about -- either in my life or just in general ( Read more... )

Today, it rained. It was raining when I left this morning, and it rained all day. If it is raining when I leave the house, I carry my big umbrella (as opposed to the little umbrella I keep in my bag all the time for emergencies). My big umbrella has a spike at the end. My big umbrella could easily be a weapon -- I'd just have to put enough ( Read more... )

I'm so nervous about the presidential election. What if things go wrong (again)? I keep going from cautiously optimistic to thinking that it's better just to expect the worst. Of course, the "cautiously optimistic" stuff leaves an unfamiliar taste in my mouth, hard-core pessimist that I am, so I am trying to stay away from that and prepare for ( Read more... )

My answers, because I know you're all just dying to know ( Read more... )

I am so sick of this warm, humid weather. I am sick of feeling like shit every morning when I wake up because my 24-hour allergy pills (antihistamine plus decongestant) stop working after about 22 hours. And even if I take them in the evening (instead of early morning) I still wake up almost every day at 4AM to blow my nose several times. And ( Read more... )

I am intolerant.  I'm trying to come to terms with that.  And I think I have PMS right now, but I find myself getting more and more riled up about stuff.  (I also think it has a lot to do with current events.)  I have very little tolerance (and basically no respect or patience) for lots of people, including: 

• Most religious people, especially ( Read more... )

In my kitchen, there is a bar table (one that I made myself). Until now, the kitties did not get up on it at all. And so I use it to put things up there that I don't want them getting into. Punkin isn't much of a jumper (she does jump up on the kitchen countertops), Kwdlu doesn't jump up on anything but the couch and the bed and my lap and Winky ( Read more... )