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Okay, so normally I might be annoyed at suddenly noticing LJ's main page has adds on it, but the add in question is for the movie "Blood and chocolate"! Not a bad werewolf book... didn't exactly make it onto a favorite list, but that's more because of personal preferences with werewolves than because of any huge flaw in the story. From the makers of Underworld... hmm... well I hope the werewolves aren't bald.
I also hope there are no enzymes. (okay, well, maybe I do...)
duke_otterland's journal has been suspended? What up with that? Dunno who knew him; kinda random aquaintence, but he seemed innocuous.
Wolfpark. Wolfpark! Was pretty neat, and full of the mild-social-awkwardness that comes from any gathering of furries ^-^ And there were many furries; not just the ones from here but others from Indianna coming in for the event. Pretty neat. I like wolves.
And the guy I rode down with was cool! Splinterpaw. He has ties with the local Native American community and I asked him about The Chief controversy. According to him, most of the local native americans (who I will now refer to as LNA) find the Chief kind of annoying (himself included) as while the Chief doesn't exactly portray bad steriotypes, he's nothing like the plains indians either. That, and the university is kind of dildos to native americans. Not, like, BAD, but kind of annoying. The example I heard was some LNAs tried to hold a pow-wow, and the university agreed and said they could hold it on university land, then started piling on all these weird restrictions. Like saying they needed to have card-carrying tribal members (for some tribes, it's pretty difficult to get a card), and when they found some, the university kept taking it more and more out of the hands of the organizers until they just called it off. So, I do think it's pretty lame for a university to have a native american as it's mascot and then not have a strong native american studies/support program :P "but schools with vikings as their mascots don't need to have stong viking studies programs!" yeah, well, I don't think that's a bad idea either, but also vikings weren't raped by the US government :P
And finally, Lucy has an eye infection. :( Noticed her squinting a bit, and it didn't clear up in a few days so we took her to the vet last night. I have never seen a cat scream bloody murder at getting it's temperature taken, but apparently Lucy strenuously objects to the proceedure. Hera was never exactly cooperative with vets, but she wasn't especially upset at them taking her temperature, and Boomer purrs and looks confused when thet do it. (as funny as it would be if he actually liked it, it's more that Boomer inherently trusts people when he's scared and when he's getting his temperature taken he's in a scary new place with a person paying lots of attention to him, which he thinks is a good thing, though he's not sure what to think of what else is going on...)
Anyway, Lucy at least doesn't hold a grudge, which is a very good thing as we have to rub gunk in her eye 4x a day. She's still overwhelmingly cute, though.
I also hope there are no enzymes. (okay, well, maybe I do...)
duke_otterland's journal has been suspended? What up with that? Dunno who knew him; kinda random aquaintence, but he seemed innocuous.
Wolfpark. Wolfpark! Was pretty neat, and full of the mild-social-awkwardness that comes from any gathering of furries ^-^ And there were many furries; not just the ones from here but others from Indianna coming in for the event. Pretty neat. I like wolves.
And the guy I rode down with was cool! Splinterpaw. He has ties with the local Native American community and I asked him about The Chief controversy. According to him, most of the local native americans (who I will now refer to as LNA) find the Chief kind of annoying (himself included) as while the Chief doesn't exactly portray bad steriotypes, he's nothing like the plains indians either. That, and the university is kind of dildos to native americans. Not, like, BAD, but kind of annoying. The example I heard was some LNAs tried to hold a pow-wow, and the university agreed and said they could hold it on university land, then started piling on all these weird restrictions. Like saying they needed to have card-carrying tribal members (for some tribes, it's pretty difficult to get a card), and when they found some, the university kept taking it more and more out of the hands of the organizers until they just called it off. So, I do think it's pretty lame for a university to have a native american as it's mascot and then not have a strong native american studies/support program :P "but schools with vikings as their mascots don't need to have stong viking studies programs!" yeah, well, I don't think that's a bad idea either, but also vikings weren't raped by the US government :P
And finally, Lucy has an eye infection. :( Noticed her squinting a bit, and it didn't clear up in a few days so we took her to the vet last night. I have never seen a cat scream bloody murder at getting it's temperature taken, but apparently Lucy strenuously objects to the proceedure. Hera was never exactly cooperative with vets, but she wasn't especially upset at them taking her temperature, and Boomer purrs and looks confused when thet do it. (as funny as it would be if he actually liked it, it's more that Boomer inherently trusts people when he's scared and when he's getting his temperature taken he's in a scary new place with a person paying lots of attention to him, which he thinks is a good thing, though he's not sure what to think of what else is going on...)
Anyway, Lucy at least doesn't hold a grudge, which is a very good thing as we have to rub gunk in her eye 4x a day. She's still overwhelmingly cute, though.