wow. a very long entry about cats.

[bonscott]

orpah celebrated his fourteenth birthday two weeks ago without a lot of fanfare, though my mom was here for a little while as she had a presentation in charlotte and stayed the night on our couch. we gave him half a can of tuna. jackson got some too, because he doesn't understand birthdays and the privileges that come with them

Comments

[bonscott]

One of the reasons we decided to adopt Jackson was because we wanted to help Orpah stay active in his old age. I was delighted when I saw them wrestle for the first time.

I haven't been able to get into anything lately, which is unfortunate because my final packet of the semester is due soon. I've been slowly reading Autumn of the Patriarch for over a month. It's rather dense though the writing is good, of course, when I can get through it. I finished Anne Carson's novel-in-verse Autobiography of Red, which is a modern-day retelling of the Hercules and Geryon story. Hercules is cast as a slightly older, ignore-the-consequences rebel, to Geryon's naive and shy, um, dragon boy. Carson's word choices are wonderful and there are a lot of really superb images, 'parked cars nesting on their shadows' comes to mind now.

[quilladdison]

Oh, wow, what an excellently, fascinatingly wonderful entry!! (And that is NOT sarcastic!)

Your journal is a joy to read.

You even have FOOTNOTES! *falls over in a paroxysm of intellectual joy*

[bonscott]

I think I tend to get carried away, especially since I added footnotes to my journal's repertoire. I pretend I'm powerless to stop it, which helps moderately. Anyway, there I go. I should have just said, "Thank you for the compliments. I do appreciate them."

[quilladdison]

Carried away? With being smart? *scoff* Not possible.

Intelligence is far too rare these days. I take great delight in finding it in your journal.