It's 2009 on the East Coast! Happy New Year!

Clearly, I am paving the road to hell. I'm a week behind on NaNoWriMo. I keep either being abruptly busy or crawling into bed early. Lameness. Although, some of it vaguely resembles having a life.

I have to say I found this to be pretty spot on. Spookily so!

( er... that was longer than I thought... )

I don't usually post these things, but since my mom's a breast cancer survivor, I thought I might post this one. The breast cancer site has sponsors offering (theoretically, I haven't vetted this) to pay for free mammograms for those who can't afford them based on people clicking on the breast cancer site. So, I clicked. And you can too, if you'd like to!

http://www.thebreastcancersite.com/

Happy merlinofchaos and genitiggie day!

I want to thank everyone for their sympathy wishes. They really mean a lot to me. I intended to go through and respond to each one, but it makes me cry. So you get a general post of thanks. But it is heartfelt.

I'd left her at the vet to get some blood work done to check her kidney functions. The vet was calling me to let me know that it didn't look good and his recommendation was going to be that she be put to sleep when the tech came down from checking on her to let him know that she passed away.

Agnew's doing very poorly. She's all constipated and lethargic. She won't eat, but she will drink. She doesn't move on her own. She wet the couch. She probably needed to go to the vet today (or even yesterday), but I've had to work. She's going to the vet in the morning, though.

I suspect she probably won't be coming home. I mean, maybe the problem is all just the severe constipation, which really snuck up on me, but even if they get her cleaned out I'm not sure at this point that she'll recover.

She's 19 or 20 years old.

No one on my LJ list except, probably, diony will care:

But they're reprinting L.J. Smith's young adult paranormal novels, putting them two or three to a book. I was terribly tempted.

So, agrimony, your LiveJournal reveals...

You are... 0% unique and 22% herdlike (partly because you, like everyone else, enjoy writing). When it comes to friends you are popular. In terms of the way you relate to people, you are keen to please. Your writing style (based on a recent public entry) is conventional.

Your overall weirdness is: 20

(The average level of weirdness is: 27.
You are weirder than 44% of other LJers.)

Find out what your weirdness level is!

I wonder what one has to post about to be unique. Are there a lot of journals out there discussing pelvic organ prolapse and I just missed them?

For mizkit and esmerel:

Yaaaaaaaaaawn. And barf.

It really was just that predictable.

Happy tyeeday!

At the risk of being repetitive, but having caught up with yesterday and today, oh dear god the gagging.

Gag.

Gag gag.

Gag gag gag.

It's all just so... trite.

Sigh. It's like a train wreck, though. I know it's coming, but I can't look away.

That some day I'll have a job. Specifically, a job doing lab work. And that I'll figure out what advanced degree I'm going for. And that some day I'll work for a place like Boehringer Ingelheim, because omigod they look like they are made of awesome.

I also have a dream that all my friends will live in the same general geographic location so that I don't have to make agonizing decisions about which area to end up in in the long run!

And, while I'm dreaming big, winning the powerball lottery would be nice.

Happy space_parasiteday! Hooray! Have a drink to him!

mizkit will understand:

I threw up a lot in my mouth this time.

I got a copy of THE HIGH KING'S TOMB by Kristen Britain because I got impatient and couldn't wait for the paperback. Of course, it's so enormous that I keep putting off reading it. I opened it up the other day to take a peek and noticed that it has an OMIGOD ENORMOUS font. And OMIGOD ENORMOUS margins. The book could easily have been half the size with more reasonable font and margins. It makes me grumpy. :)

Tonight, Agnew scared the crap out of me. About an hour and a half ago, she fell off the bed and was having a really hard time walking because she couldn't keep her butt from flopping over. She went to eat and was having a really hard time with the kibble. I picked her up and cuddled her for a bit, then fed her some cat treats which were softer to eat than the kibble and she helped herself to the water in my glass. Then she hopped down from the desk and seemed to be okay. She went upstairs for a short while and has since come down, without any evidence of the previous difficulty in her walk and is now curled up on the bed.

She's a very old cat. At least 19 years old. I don't think this bodes well for further longevity. :(

Come on down and visit monytown! http://monytown.myminicity.com/

I'm in Vienna, VA visiting with friends! I got here Saturday for my birthday and spent the evening with some folks I've met through Firan. We had dinner and cake and board games. It was very, very nice. Much better than the alternative, which would've been spending most of my birthday by myself in my room in front of my computer.

I'm only here for a couple more days, then it's back home and to the job search. Which has not been going well. Suck.

If I thought I could get a job that would pay me enough on just a bachelor's of science, I'd seriously think about moving down here. But it's not very viable. Alas.