The only thing better than a ventriloquist talking while looking like he’s not talking is a ventriloquist talking while looking like he’s talking in another badly dubbed language. Wow.
Not Dead, Just Internet-less and Insanely Busy
I realize it’s been an unforgivably long time since I wrote anything here. It’s not for lack of things happening in my world, but if life comes at you in droplets and rivers mostly, it’s been coming at me in tidal waves the last couple of weeks. I’ve traveled to see family, come home for a day and a half, seen my brother get married, hosted a bunch of family (here for the wedding), traveled to see more family, and am currently hosting just my immediate family. It’s been wonderful to connect with people I haven’t seen in years, and a minor miracle juggling the pets around each other, but all this leaves very little time for blogging.
About pets… There’s nothing quite like a family visit that spans two weekends, the first of which begins with one pet so stressed he gets the runs (my parents’ 100-pound dog), and ends with the other pet so stressed he won’t go at all (my cat). That’s right. When you own a pet, your life suddenly revolves around pet elimination (or lack thereof, as the case may be). I even bothered my poor vet at home last night because I got freaked out by warnings that cats who don’t go can die very quickly. (Thanks a lot, dear internet, for feeding me the worst-case scenario without enough description of other symptoms to help me decide whether my cat would die or not.) But I can report that there are healthy signs in the litter box this morning, so I think death has been averted for now.
For anyone who may stumble on this post when searching for lack of urination in cats, my vet said it can happen that they’ll clam up for a day or so, due to stress. She said to worry if the cat is trying to go but can’t, or if it’s been 2 to 3 days. But hey, if your worried, call your vet. It certainly helped me sleep last night to know that I’d talked to her and we had a plan in place if he hadn’t peed by morning.
Most Exciting Interview Ever
Sitting here watching a rerun of the Daily Show, I’ve come to an unsurprising and unexciting conclusion: Al Gore really is as boring as he seemed to be when he was running for president.
Stewart is interviewing him about his new movie, “An Inconvenient Truth,” about global warming. Coming back from the commercial break, Jon Stewart starts off, all energetic and jovial:
“So we’re here talking with Al Gore about global… What’s the phrase?” [Hint, hint. Be witty Al.]
“It’s an ‘Environmental Crisis,’ Jon.”
Poor Gore.
I Really, Really Can’t Win
I biked to work again this morning… and got a flat tire. Then my computer ate my entire morning’s work, I had to walk my bike to the repair shop over lunch, and spent the entire afternoon trying to make headway on a project and getting precisely nowhere. Man, I can’t wait for a four-day weekend!
I Just Can’t Win
I biked to work this morning. I was feeling pretty proud of myself for doing something that was physically and emotionally good for me. And then I was upstaged. Coming towards me, uphill as I was going down, was a guy carrying about 6 bags of groceries… riding a unicycle.