Vlad the Impaler
Dec. 6th, 2009 07:41 pmAnd while I'm playing with pictures, have a cat. It's what the Internets are for.
Vlad the Impaler
Dec. 6th, 2009 07:41 pmAnd while I'm playing with pictures, have a cat. It's what the Internets are for.
(no subject)
Jun. 7th, 2009 04:43 pmI got tired of the cat's mouth smelling like rot this afternoon. (His swollen cheek continues to swell. Inside his mouth is a red and leaking mess. Antibiotics do not appear to have helped, and if it continues like this, there is only so long he'll still be able to eat.)
So I took a measure of ouzo, some salt, added warm water, and held him down in the bath while I tried to wipe as much of the inside of his cheek with a clean towel and the aforesaid mixture as I could. Which wasn't much. Possibly I shouldn't have added ouzo, but I figured a tipsy cat is a cat who's going to sleep without hurting, and I daresay the amount that actually got in his mouth is not going to damage his innards more than the painkillers he's already on.
It's a fucking mess, is what it is, and worse, he's started limping and favouring his hind legs. He's only seven or eight, dammit. He's too young a cat to be an old crock.
I was invited, out of the blue, to a friend of a friend's dinner party last night. This makes the second Saturday night in a row I have been social until after midnight. It is very strange, and altogether unusual. I was quite baffled to be invited, to be honest: there were only seven people there, myself included, and all knew each other rather better than I knew 'em.
It is a weirdness.
Today, I'm wandering around the house, unable to concentrate on my study notes for the exam tomorrow. My brain feels all thick and scattered: I need to go for a run, do some exercise, freaking climb, but I can't scrounge up the necessary focus or willpower to do anything.
Well. Dammit. I suppose I'd better try.
So I took a measure of ouzo, some salt, added warm water, and held him down in the bath while I tried to wipe as much of the inside of his cheek with a clean towel and the aforesaid mixture as I could. Which wasn't much. Possibly I shouldn't have added ouzo, but I figured a tipsy cat is a cat who's going to sleep without hurting, and I daresay the amount that actually got in his mouth is not going to damage his innards more than the painkillers he's already on.
It's a fucking mess, is what it is, and worse, he's started limping and favouring his hind legs. He's only seven or eight, dammit. He's too young a cat to be an old crock.
I was invited, out of the blue, to a friend of a friend's dinner party last night. This makes the second Saturday night in a row I have been social until after midnight. It is very strange, and altogether unusual. I was quite baffled to be invited, to be honest: there were only seven people there, myself included, and all knew each other rather better than I knew 'em.
It is a weirdness.
Today, I'm wandering around the house, unable to concentrate on my study notes for the exam tomorrow. My brain feels all thick and scattered: I need to go for a run, do some exercise, freaking climb, but I can't scrounge up the necessary focus or willpower to do anything.
Well. Dammit. I suppose I'd better try.
(no subject)
Jun. 7th, 2009 04:43 pmI got tired of the cat's mouth smelling like rot this afternoon. (His swollen cheek continues to swell. Inside his mouth is a red and leaking mess. Antibiotics do not appear to have helped, and if it continues like this, there is only so long he'll still be able to eat.)
So I took a measure of ouzo, some salt, added warm water, and held him down in the bath while I tried to wipe as much of the inside of his cheek with a clean towel and the aforesaid mixture as I could. Which wasn't much. Possibly I shouldn't have added ouzo, but I figured a tipsy cat is a cat who's going to sleep without hurting, and I daresay the amount that actually got in his mouth is not going to damage his innards more than the painkillers he's already on.
It's a fucking mess, is what it is, and worse, he's started limping and favouring his hind legs. He's only seven or eight, dammit. He's too young a cat to be an old crock.
I was invited, out of the blue, to a friend of a friend's dinner party last night. This makes the second Saturday night in a row I have been social until after midnight. It is very strange, and altogether unusual. I was quite baffled to be invited, to be honest: there were only seven people there, myself included, and all knew each other rather better than I knew 'em.
It is a weirdness.
Today, I'm wandering around the house, unable to concentrate on my study notes for the exam tomorrow. My brain feels all thick and scattered: I need to go for a run, do some exercise, freaking climb, but I can't scrounge up the necessary focus or willpower to do anything.
Well. Dammit. I suppose I'd better try.
So I took a measure of ouzo, some salt, added warm water, and held him down in the bath while I tried to wipe as much of the inside of his cheek with a clean towel and the aforesaid mixture as I could. Which wasn't much. Possibly I shouldn't have added ouzo, but I figured a tipsy cat is a cat who's going to sleep without hurting, and I daresay the amount that actually got in his mouth is not going to damage his innards more than the painkillers he's already on.
It's a fucking mess, is what it is, and worse, he's started limping and favouring his hind legs. He's only seven or eight, dammit. He's too young a cat to be an old crock.
I was invited, out of the blue, to a friend of a friend's dinner party last night. This makes the second Saturday night in a row I have been social until after midnight. It is very strange, and altogether unusual. I was quite baffled to be invited, to be honest: there were only seven people there, myself included, and all knew each other rather better than I knew 'em.
It is a weirdness.
Today, I'm wandering around the house, unable to concentrate on my study notes for the exam tomorrow. My brain feels all thick and scattered: I need to go for a run, do some exercise, freaking climb, but I can't scrounge up the necessary focus or willpower to do anything.
Well. Dammit. I suppose I'd better try.
Books 2008: 97
97. Park Honan, Christopher Marlowe: Poet and Spy
I'm not anything close to well read about the period or the personalities thereof. But this is a clear, concise, extremely readable and informative book.
In other news, the cat has had a relapse of his mouth infection. And he's getting thinner and pickier about his food. I bought him some mackeral in tomato sauce, which he seemed to enjoy, so I hope he'll eat his medicine when I mix it with some tuna, later.
(Cat likes tomato sauce. Hope it's good for him.)
I am rotten with laziness. I'm going to have some food and then see if I feel like going for a run.
Tomorrow, oh joys, we begin the 'rise at six am' programme of affairs. Wish me luck?
97. Park Honan, Christopher Marlowe: Poet and Spy
I'm not anything close to well read about the period or the personalities thereof. But this is a clear, concise, extremely readable and informative book.
In other news, the cat has had a relapse of his mouth infection. And he's getting thinner and pickier about his food. I bought him some mackeral in tomato sauce, which he seemed to enjoy, so I hope he'll eat his medicine when I mix it with some tuna, later.
(Cat likes tomato sauce. Hope it's good for him.)
I am rotten with laziness. I'm going to have some food and then see if I feel like going for a run.
Tomorrow, oh joys, we begin the 'rise at six am' programme of affairs. Wish me luck?
Books 2008: 97
97. Park Honan, Christopher Marlowe: Poet and Spy
I'm not anything close to well read about the period or the personalities thereof. But this is a clear, concise, extremely readable and informative book.
In other news, the cat has had a relapse of his mouth infection. And he's getting thinner and pickier about his food. I bought him some mackeral in tomato sauce, which he seemed to enjoy, so I hope he'll eat his medicine when I mix it with some tuna, later.
(Cat likes tomato sauce. Hope it's good for him.)
I am rotten with laziness. I'm going to have some food and then see if I feel like going for a run.
Tomorrow, oh joys, we begin the 'rise at six am' programme of affairs. Wish me luck?
97. Park Honan, Christopher Marlowe: Poet and Spy
I'm not anything close to well read about the period or the personalities thereof. But this is a clear, concise, extremely readable and informative book.
In other news, the cat has had a relapse of his mouth infection. And he's getting thinner and pickier about his food. I bought him some mackeral in tomato sauce, which he seemed to enjoy, so I hope he'll eat his medicine when I mix it with some tuna, later.
(Cat likes tomato sauce. Hope it's good for him.)
I am rotten with laziness. I'm going to have some food and then see if I feel like going for a run.
Tomorrow, oh joys, we begin the 'rise at six am' programme of affairs. Wish me luck?