As exhausting and frustrating as it can be working with dogs, doing things to them that they really don't want to have done ("BATH IS WET :( PLEASE LET ME OUT :( :( :("), it is way cool to end every work day up in the front with a circle of doggies licking my face and trying to crawl on my pants.

:D

I'm writing a thing. Mostly to get it out of my head. I like it so far.

Then it occurred to me that if I ever turned it into anything comiclike, I would get a stream of "HAY, DID U GET THIS FROM TWILIGHT? PLAGERIST BITCH!" comments, endlessly and forever.

It made me very, very sad. :(

I have now determined that I will never actively seek to own any of the following:

Cocker spaniels
Schnauzers
Cocker spaniels
Shelties
Cocker spaniels
Chihuahuas
Cocker freakin' spaniels.

I do really believe that almost any dog can be a good dog given the right training, but oh my god, some breeds carry the "crazy motherfucker" gene like whoa.

( So this happened! )

( Yes. )

Life is pretty spiffin' lately! Tomorrow shall finish my first week of working at the kennel job, and so far things have been going well! I'm really enjoying it. My coworkers are awesome and sweet for the most part, and the dogs are generally pretty easy to handle. The other bather, who's worked there for a while, has also been taking the wilder ( Read more... )

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"So Ruggy, what exactly have you been doing for the past five months?"

( Rawr! Images ahoy! )

I gots an interview at a kennel tomorrow! :D Or somethin' like it, going in to talk to the owner. Here's to hopin'! My friend works there and she can attest that I am not a loser, so hopefully my resume that's all "education! volunteerin'! ... work experience? what work experience?" won't fall too flat. ;P

... For the semester! Had my intermediate painting review (got 8th, just past the cutoff for the show, but hey!) and have a B in the class for the semester, got an A in my online reading in secondary schools class, and... I don't know about the other three yet! I anticipate good things, though. I've gotten A's on all my stuff for Cuban Art and my ( Read more... )