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I have some kind of flu, which prevented me from doing much of anything but watching a Project Runway marathon. I'm secretly glad I had an excuse to catch up on that show.
Brian gave a kick-ass departmental seminar today-- I am so proud of him.
Finally settled on the system I'm going to use to keep all my projects organized at work. I have been at a standstill for several days until could find a system that was going to work for me. Today I was able to have the satisfaction of checking things off the to do list.
How many pets have you owned in your lifetime? Tell us about them.
Submitted by jennajellopy.vox.com.
Francis & Felix were goldfish that I had when I was about 2 or 3. Every so often, one of them would disappear from the bowl. When I asked my mom where he was, she would say, "He swam back to K-Mart to see his friends". A couple of days later, he would be back. Thus, I fear I will not be able to accurately report how many goldfish I had as pets.
Flopsy was a cat I had at about the same time. She had 3 kittens-- Pepper, Scamper, and Frisky. I named Frisky. This was during the time when I was naming everything Frisky, including the robots I made out of my Legos. We gave the kittens away, and Flopsy "ran away" when we moved when I was 5.
Brandy was a dog we adoped from the pound that had an issue with housetraining. He liked to pee in my sister's bedroom, and we didn't keep him long.
Muffy was the best dog in the entire world, that I had from the time I was about 6 or so until the middle of college. She was a small mutt, they said she was part terrier, but it looked more like she was part daschund. She had the best trick called "doing the snake" where she would spread out on her belly with her back feet behind her and pull herself around by digging the claws of her front feet into the carpet. She would scoot around like this for what seemed like hours. She got breast cancer and had about a million surgeries, and still lived to be quite old. I miss her every day.
Solstice is a dog that is tied with Muffy for the best dog in the world. She is half Australian shepherd, half husky, and half genius, which you can see in the photo. She makes me laugh every day.
Gypsy is a cat that was born in the wild and we had to catch with a fishing net. She wanted nothing to do with us, until we opened up a can of cat food and gave her some. Then she started loving us, and she has slept cuddled up with me and purring ever since.
Graffiti, please.
I love this one, for some reason.
Let's make a list. What are 20 things in your life that you're grateful for?
20 things? Wow, that's a lot.
- Brian
- Solstice
- Gypsy
- My family
- My friends
- My health
- Brian's health
- My education
- My sense of humor
- My talents, such as they are
- Brian's job
- My house
- Effexor
- Margaritas
- Coffee
- My laptop
- 80's alternative music
- Bananas Foster
- Microbrew beer
- The web design community
At a dinner tonight honoring our friend that won the Scholar of the Year award, the president came to our table out of the blue to tell me thank you for everything I am doing for our web site. He said several really nice things, and I was the only one he talked to at the table, which was full of past Scholar of the Year winners. I was flabbergasted, but in a good way.
What's the last thing you usually do or think about before you fall asleep?
I almost always read before I fall asleep. I jealsously guard that hour or so in bed with a book before calling it quits for the day. This is one of the main reasons that I like Vox as a platform-- it makes it really easy for me to add the books that I'm reading and comment on them.
Right now I am reading The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression by Andrew Solomon.
The last thing I think about ususally has to do with the book I'm reading, but if I have a major meeting or excursion happening the next day I will think about that. And if there was major drama that happened that day, sometimes I can't help going over that endlessly, and creating fantasy scenarios where I used my cutting wit to defeat my enemies and save the day.
