One Half Buddhist, One Half Christian, One Half Pagan

That was one of the least fun nights I've ever spent. I think I may have gotten as much as 4 hours sleep, in many little chunks.

Our housemate Kailey noticed yesterday that Ender has worms (no idea how he got them, he's an indoor cat). So he's locked up on the screened-in porch off of the bedroom until that's resolved. (Kailey is taking him to the vet this morning. She has the morning off, and this way Tom & I don't have to miss any work.) He cried all. night. long. Any little noise triggered 20 minutes of plaintive meowing. So that was Ender's contribution.

Skif "helped" by sleeping on the pillow next to my head (usually Ender's spot) and growling like a monster every time Socks (Kailey's cat) came within 10 feet. There's nothing quite so disconcerting as waking up to a noise like two pieces of granite rubbing together 3 inches from your nose. He sounded like a demon from the depths.

Body: Pretty good. The only thing wrong is the scratch in my toe where Ender got me.

Reading: I'm about halfway through Harald.

Hearing: More music. Lots of Celtic and folk today.

Project Follow-up: Cat sitting went fine, and between it and dinner I accomplished some shopping. See my previous post for details.

Tonight's Project: I'm not sure. I might start a plum cordial, or just be lazy.

The cats are still a little weirded out when I take a bath, so I guess I shouldn't be surprised that they were utterly flummoxed by a bubble bath. They kept standing with their front paws on the edge of the tub staring at the bubbles with big eyes. Ender lost interest fairly soon, but Skif kept coming back into the bathroom and pacing the edge of the tub looking concerned about my safety (or maybe my sanity).

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I'd ask Skif why he keeps jumping to the top of the bedroom door, and Ender why he keeps jumping on top of my dresser.

I'd also ask both of them why they keep going nuts at 5am.

Ender is a adorable, affectionate cat, but sometimes I don't think he's very bright.

Every time he jumps on my or Tom's desk, I spray him with water. This has been going on for months. You would think that he would have grasped the connection between being on a desk and being soaking wet by now.

On the other hand, Tom just pointed out that his water dish was empty, so it could be a sneaky way to get something to drink.

Tom added some pictures to his gallery.

Cats! I'm going to make one of these into an icon, but I can't decide which one. Suggestions?

Birka

I took the kitten's to the vet today to get fixed (or "broken" as Tom says). It seems as if everything went smoothly. The only thing that's odd is the instruction to "Restrict activity for the next 10 days. ... Prevent them from running or jumping as much as possible." How on earth do you keep a pair of 6-month-old kittens from running and jumping?!?!?

We're going to keep them in their carrier tonight, and tomorrow I'll be trying my best to keep them in sight as much as I can.

In other news, I put my 2 weeks notice in at the library today. 2 4-hour shifts a week is not a schedule that's been working for me very well, and the library won't give me any other. It's too few hours to actually cover any significant fraction of my living expenses (Thanks Love, for making up the difference), while being just enough hours spaced out just enough that I've had a difficult time hunting for anything better. My plan for this week is to go down to Albany Medical Center and apply for something there.

I'd also like to get something that is at least slightly easier on my knees. Ironically, I think the library would have been less bad for my knees if I had worked more shifts a week. If that had been the case, I would have a few weeks of lots of pain, but then my body would have adjusted. As it is, I leave work with a low grade ache that's gone the next day but re-appears with each workday.

We decided to name one Ender (from Orson Scott Card's book Ender's Game and its sequels) and the other Skif (from Mercedes Lackey's Valdemar series. For a while we were thinking that we would go with Hengist and Horsa, but we decided that they weren't quite right.