The nice lady's husband was taken seriously ill all of a sudden, and so Annabelle will stay here for at least another week (as I'm going on call Tuesday, and won't be able to make any appointments until next Monday, my day off and guaranteed free of the pager ( Read more... )

Well, here she is (thirteenth from the top ( Read more... )

A nice little black cat got dumped in a parking lot last week (several witnesses saw a van pull up, throw her out the door, and then take off again - nobody got a license plate number), and everybody, absolutely everybody, is completely full up with cats. Every shelter, every rescue organization, everybody. It's kitten season, and every animal ( Read more... )

Two years ago the "senior prank" was to leave two live chickens in the boy's bathroom, their legs still tied together for who knows how long. The poor things were covered in their own shit of course, and after we cut the ropes around their legs they couldn't stand up for a couple of hours, I guess not until the circulation returned ( Read more... )

Of the pager, that is. I went off call today. Lovely, lovely, lovely!

This hardly ever happens ( Read more... )

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It's SPRING, wham bam phone doesn't stop ringing from the early early morning til the late late night. I'm on call, and getting them all. I just try to make sure I squeeze in enough sleep from one day to the next so that I have some hope of functioning with some semblance of alertness. So many calls every day that I can't begin to remember the ( Read more... )

This Friday I'm taking my aunt to see this movie. Oh boy oh boy. There's a site here that tells more about the parrots and this guy who was their Bird Man for a while. Escaped parrots, living wild in the City by the Bay! Parrots in brilliant green and red (and blue), sitting on a person's head! Parrots ever vigilant against hawk attacks! ( Read more... )

So there's a new Pope. That was fast. Absolutely positively none of my business - I'm not even Christian, let alone Catholic. But with all the speculation that there might have been an African, Latin American or Asian pope, I'm sort of disappointed that they went for Ratzinger after all. A pope from somewhere other than Europe would have been ( Read more... )