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We are Siamese, if you please...
Aug. 13th, 2003 08:24 amI nearly caved in yesterday and purchased a lithograph of Si and Am, the two Siamese kitties from "Lady and the Tramp". Yes, we've got a house full of black cat stuff and now I feel the disturbing urge to add Siamese stuff. Does this put me a step closer to "cat lady" status, or is it just the latest harmless obsession?
Speaking of harmless obsessions, I know folks are all posting their generated haikus at the moment, but somehow I just didn't feel mine was quite good enough, so instead I'll post something that appealed to me greatly:
( LoTR Boy Kinky One Night Stands )
*sigh*
Anyway, lessee, I was alarmingly productive at work yesterday, despite our ongoing network issues. It was kinda funny to see our IT guy stuck in the middle of our circle of cubes until he could reassure us that we weren't going to lose our connection again. After about ten minutes we finally let him leave, but after an afternoon of "Ok, I've got a connection...oh wait, now it's gone." can you blame us?
( Details from last night's performance behind the cut )
Was tempted to let Pye stay in my room last night, but I needed *sleep* and doubted I'd get it with him in there. If I can start leaving my window open a crack, that can change, and I may try him out with it this weekend to see how it goes. I don't think he'll do such a "trauma kitty" routine in the mornings if he gets some serious monkey time at night. It's hard for him to be so isolated most of the day, he's really a social animal and it's no wonder he spends a lot of his time desperately mewling. I hope Kage can learn to tolerate him, he needs the interaction.
And on the subject of Pye, I'm keeping my eyes open for a cat tree/condo, I'm looking for something very vertical, but with a little hidey-hole that he can crawl into. If anyone knows of a good place to find a fairly inexpensive one I'm all ears.
Aside from that I slept very poorly last night (maybe got 5 hours tops) and am subsisting on caffeine today. So if I respond to anyone in a nonsensical manner please understand that it's the sleep dep talking. But tonight I sleep!
Oh and this little tidbit caught my eye this morning, many thanks to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
odogoddess for pointing it out to me:
Seasonale: Fooling Mother Nature
New birth control pill is medicine for the sake of convenience
While many women would like to be rid of the inconvenience of periods, should it be part of medicine’s job to help women time their births to fit a busy schedule or to get rid of a messy and sometimes painful monthly experience?
Like it or not, the answer seems clear: Say goodbye to menstruation.
"Like it or not"? What the fuck is up with that? The more I read this piece the more pissed off I got, and I'll admit when I noted that it was written by a man my first response was, "Typical". Yeah you know what, I'm betting if he had to basically write off an entire week of each month because he knew he was going to be a physical basket case he'd be a helluva lot less likely to dismiss the importance of this drug. And that's just the women who don't have to go through an additional week of PMS with mood swings, bloating, cramping, and general discomfort.
You ask any woman out there if she'd trade 12 weeks of pain for 4 and I'm guessing 99.9% would happily sign up for that. I'm betting that percentage would hold up with most men as well. And you know what? If this sucker gets approved by the FDA I will be one of the first women in line to receive it. And not because a period can be "messy" or "inconvenient", but because they can be excruciating and incapacitating, and the concept of life without them every month sounds about as close to perfect bliss as I could hope for. The sheer freedom of it, is almost beyond imagining.
Here endeth the rant.
Speaking of harmless obsessions, I know folks are all posting their generated haikus at the moment, but somehow I just didn't feel mine was quite good enough, so instead I'll post something that appealed to me greatly:
( LoTR Boy Kinky One Night Stands )
*sigh*
Anyway, lessee, I was alarmingly productive at work yesterday, despite our ongoing network issues. It was kinda funny to see our IT guy stuck in the middle of our circle of cubes until he could reassure us that we weren't going to lose our connection again. After about ten minutes we finally let him leave, but after an afternoon of "Ok, I've got a connection...oh wait, now it's gone." can you blame us?
( Details from last night's performance behind the cut )
Was tempted to let Pye stay in my room last night, but I needed *sleep* and doubted I'd get it with him in there. If I can start leaving my window open a crack, that can change, and I may try him out with it this weekend to see how it goes. I don't think he'll do such a "trauma kitty" routine in the mornings if he gets some serious monkey time at night. It's hard for him to be so isolated most of the day, he's really a social animal and it's no wonder he spends a lot of his time desperately mewling. I hope Kage can learn to tolerate him, he needs the interaction.
And on the subject of Pye, I'm keeping my eyes open for a cat tree/condo, I'm looking for something very vertical, but with a little hidey-hole that he can crawl into. If anyone knows of a good place to find a fairly inexpensive one I'm all ears.
Aside from that I slept very poorly last night (maybe got 5 hours tops) and am subsisting on caffeine today. So if I respond to anyone in a nonsensical manner please understand that it's the sleep dep talking. But tonight I sleep!
Oh and this little tidbit caught my eye this morning, many thanks to
odogoddess for pointing it out to me:Seasonale: Fooling Mother Nature
New birth control pill is medicine for the sake of convenience
While many women would like to be rid of the inconvenience of periods, should it be part of medicine’s job to help women time their births to fit a busy schedule or to get rid of a messy and sometimes painful monthly experience?
Like it or not, the answer seems clear: Say goodbye to menstruation.
"Like it or not"? What the fuck is up with that? The more I read this piece the more pissed off I got, and I'll admit when I noted that it was written by a man my first response was, "Typical". Yeah you know what, I'm betting if he had to basically write off an entire week of each month because he knew he was going to be a physical basket case he'd be a helluva lot less likely to dismiss the importance of this drug. And that's just the women who don't have to go through an additional week of PMS with mood swings, bloating, cramping, and general discomfort.
You ask any woman out there if she'd trade 12 weeks of pain for 4 and I'm guessing 99.9% would happily sign up for that. I'm betting that percentage would hold up with most men as well. And you know what? If this sucker gets approved by the FDA I will be one of the first women in line to receive it. And not because a period can be "messy" or "inconvenient", but because they can be excruciating and incapacitating, and the concept of life without them every month sounds about as close to perfect bliss as I could hope for. The sheer freedom of it, is almost beyond imagining.
Here endeth the rant.
