I haven't made a post in so long that LJ isn't even bothering to tell me the "Last post _____ ago." But I'm still here, not posting!

More, and complete-like, later.

Valentine's Day is two days before my birthday, and I have never had a date/boyfriend/etc for the stupid thing. So it functions as a timely reminder every single year that not only am I going to die, I am going to die alone and unloved.

Thanks, calendar!

After a couple of very rough days, Sassy is grooming, eating, drinking, and acting like herself! And food is going in one end and going out the other, which at this point seems like a small miracle.

Sassy had to have more surgery. Her internal stitches burst and she had intestines where intestines should not be. I had a horrible, terrible morning during which I thought I would have to put her down, but it was sort of a best-case scenario when the vet opened her up and nothing was complicatedly wrong. No infection or gangrene or ruptures or any ( Read more... )

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Thanksgiving went smoothly, and got back to Illinois just in time for the first real snow. Followed by the second, third, and fourth real snows, with more tomorrow. Winter ( Read more... )

The tattoo has healed up nicely, although I may go back at some point and get a couple of little things touched up. It continues to be strangely permanent. Permanence on any level is both amazing and freaks me out ( Read more... )

So this is my newly inscribed right hip. I am very proud of me.


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It's been more than two months since I posted here, and it feels like a couple of weeks. Time do fly.

I'm back in the grind with academia, getting used to the scary novelty of teaching literature in addition to Memo Writing 101. There was a bit of vertigo at first - where the hell is the textbook with all the answers? - but in the past couple of ( Read more... )