| Bad night for Monte kitty. |
[May. 20th, 2009|12:24 am] |
Rough night for Monte kitty.
First he gets his kitty treats from WG. So far so good.
Oooh, but they don't sit very well with him.* He makes a quick trip to the litter box.
Ten minutes later, he wafts by mom and dad for some snuggles and pets -- "Oh, ew, what's that smell? Get off of here!"
So he does what every self-respecting cat would do in his circumstance. The brown streak scootch.
Cue more noise from mom and dad -- "Hey! No!" He's confronted with swearing and grumbling. Then he's swooped up by mom and stuffed into the bathroom, where dad already has the dreaded tub running.
Nooooo!
He yowls at the door to be let out. No such luck. He's dipped in warm water, back legs struggling and kicking as mom and dad wash sticky poops off of him.
Finally he makes a break for it, dripping wet, his tail drawing a thin line of water all over the apartment. It takes him forty-five minutes to lick himself dry. Or at least damp.
He hops up onto the bed ... and is forced to sit at the foot of the bed, not on his favorite pillows.
To add insult to injury, from all that licking he ends up throwing up a hairball.
Man, what a night.
* WG has since thrown those treats away. |
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| Cliffhanger, eh? |
[May. 15th, 2009|09:33 am] |
So I take it from you guys (I have not watched yet) that SPN ended on a cliffhanger?
Is that true? Because I'm perfectly prepared to wait till September to watch the most recent ep.
In other news... monte kitty (currently age nine) keeps doing this butt-shifting thing when he sits down, like he has to work to get comfortable. He's getting older. Our cat Trigger used to do this and he had arthritis in his hips. What do think? Kitty arthritis? I'm worrying too much? |
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| UW Budget cuts? Try devastation. These couldn't be worse if they used napalm. |
[Apr. 28th, 2009|01:13 am] |
Tonight has been a terrible night for no reason I can discern.
WG was happy and perky when I came home. The kitty was purring. I curled up with my homework on clean sheets.
But I had a lot of reading to do. WG turned petulant and needy, cuddling close and miserable, interrupting again and again in subtle ways -- until I snapped at him. My mood turned foul and frustrated ... and then guilty.
Monte kitty also resented my homework. He chewed my book, sat on it, did "walk-bys," and then threw up a hairball on the bed.
I stripped the sheets, found a snuggle position for the (now unhappy) WG and Monte kitty. Then finished my reading. I just picked up the email from the University president.
UW Budget cuts? Try devastation. These couldn't be worse if they used napalm.
For the University of Washington, the resulting budget decisions are dramatic. The bad news is that the Legislature decided to reduce statefunding to the six public four-year college and universities more than any other sector in state government. The University of Washington received the highest percentage cut in all of higher education - 26 percent. This is a stark and sobering number. Beginning July 1, one quarter of our funding from the state will no longer exist. It is unprecedented in state history, and as far as we know, it is by far the largest reduction in state support to a flagship university by any state in the nation. It takes our state funding level back to where it was more than a decade ago and drops the portion of the state budget dedicated to four-year higher education to an all-time low.
The somewhat better news, though it may not appear so to our students and their families, is that the budget authorizes our Regents to increase resident undergraduate tuition up to 14 percent for the 2009-11 biennium ... If approved by the Regents, tuition for resident undergraduates wouldincrease $875 next academic year and $1,000 the following year.
Sigh. I thought the stimulous bill had money for universities in it. I thought that was the priority.
I feel lost. Like school right now is a hopeless black hole. Sanskrit is a lost cause. I'll never be get funding to take the final year now.
I may be a tad depressed.
Of course, I've also been reading Toni Morrison tonight. She has a talent for leaving me in the dumps. |
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| Yes, I am easily entertained. |
[Mar. 22nd, 2009|04:30 pm] |
| [ | Tags | | | kitty | ] |
| [ | Current Mood |
| |  easily entertained | ] |
Monte is walking very, very delicately into the living room, scoping out the floor in front of him. There are puddles, and apparently the puddles are dangerous. |
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| My kitty smells like ... dirty socks. |
[Mar. 18th, 2009|03:49 pm] |
My kitty smells like ... dirty socks.
Guess who's been sleeping in the laundry? |
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| Smooshed. Hey, kitty, move over. |
[Feb. 8th, 2008|08:12 pm] |
| [ | Tags | | | home, kitty, school, sga, wg | ] |
| [ | Current Music |
| | Creedence Clearwater Revival - creedence clearwater revival - mustang sally | ] |
I have an entire seven foot couch.
How my cat manages to squish me into one corner of it, I have no idea.
In other news: ![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) wildernessguru has never been bowling. This sad lack in his American-ness is being remedied tomorrow.
Now. I will read my homework. I will write a chapter of Out Of Bounds (had to throw away the most recent one -- sorry. It sucked.) And I will stop shaking the internet for the next ep of Stargate Atlantis.
*shakes the internet one more time* |
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pitying