I really wish my customers would just tell me the truth when accidents occur, instead of blaming it on their cat or something. I must say though, I'm quite impressed at the number of cats that can type "DELETE."

Haven't you ever seen Freakazoid? Cats can type in very specific phrases on accident by walking on the keyboard.

Oh my god I love that show.





Fresh cut grass.

One of my cats is absolutely traumatized. He sneaked out, and was stuck outside for about three hours. He is an indoors cat, so this was a new experience. And now he just follows me around, walking real slow while he is usually jumping around like a crazy kangaroo. Hope he returns to his happy self soon.

Ours did this a few weeks ago, another thing to watch out for: Other cats you have might not be welcoming to him cuz he'll smell differant.

Should only take a few days before he's back to normal.

Oh, the other cat I had was fine with him. He decided that he needed to be cleaned and started licking him.


Now he's just lying on my desk, staring at me.

My indoor cat would trample me flat on her way out the door for the opportunity to go outside, and often tries just that.

She's three years old, full of energy all the time (play with her for two hours and she'll be acting bored again five minutes later) and is fairly aggressive and standoffish (yet she still follows me like a shadow and radiates affection from afar). I think the aggression is due partially to improper socialization as a young kitten (got her from the shelter at a few months old), partially to boredom, and partially to her personality just being damn weird in general. There's nothing abusive or neglectful about her life with me, either; she has free reign of the house, is fed regularly with her favorite dry and wet food, gets played with, petted and rubbed whenever she wants, and there's no screaming or hitting of any kind, ever. A yell and a squirt of water are the harshest punishments, and those only when absolutely needed.

The aggression... most people would consider it to be pretty bad, although it's not unbridled aggressiveness. Pet her longer than she wants, and she'll go to town on your hand. If she's bored, she might do a "hit and run" and bite and scratch your elbow. She just has no concept of control where violence is concerned. Still, having visited my mother and seen her normal, completely non-aggressive cats who want to cuddle 24/7, it's shocking in comparison.

I'm considering letting her be an outside cat, gradually letting her venture outside for longer periods of time. She'll already stay outside for an hour or two unsupervised, then come back inside of her own accord.

My mother agrees with me in that, for some cats, keeping them inside when they so clearly want to go out is the crueler choice. It's better to risk the dangers of fights with other cats and the possibility of being hit by a car than to let them live feeling cooped-up all the time. It's a tough decision, because I don't know when (or even if) she'll develop outside cat "street smarts," but she's already wary of cars and is a very intelligent cat in general.

Looking for work sucks.

If by some happy accident you are aware of an opportunity for a junior Linux sysadmin, C, Objective-C or Python programmer in the Calgary, Alberta area please PM.

Not that it's anything more than anecdotal, but my cat was like that, and she was a semi-outdoor* cat for the first 17 years of her life. Now that she's 20 we really only let her out supervised, during the day.

She has also become a total lap-cat, and now begs for affection and follows me around the house constantly. Last week she fell asleep on my lap for the first time ever.


*Semi-outdoor means she was let outdoors in a suburban area, unsupervised, during the day. Occasionally she stayed out all night, if we couldn't coax her back in, but that was pretty rare.

And I got a fever too. It just isn't my day, is it.

D: Noooo! *huggles* Feel better!

And I'm sure kitty will be back to normal soon. My cats will get like that sometimes just from being around each other (namely the kitten, she was being real jumpy yesterday).

My graduation ceremony for high school is coming up. It's supposed to be a happy time, and as usual it makes me feel miserable thinking about it.

I don't see this much as something to celebrate. I don't want to 'walk', as they call it. But everyone else is expecting me to, so I'll deal with it. My main desire is to just get away from here.

My academic future is unstable despite having my overall future and goals in mind. I have little to no support in getting where I would like to go. At the same time, there's several members of my class sitting on practically free college rides from their grandparents. What's it like to be lucky? Geez.

The concept appearing at graduation is depressing. I don't connect with 90% of my graduating class, just as I don't connect with 90% of my own family, several of which are expressing a desire to show up. That last part baffles me - really, you want to come here? Where the hell have you been for my entire young adult life? Part of me doesn't want them here. I don't have very many friends, either - two that I really enjoy spending time around and can routinely make my day, yes, and ordinarily I would find that satisfying enough. But they're both part of these other social circles with relationships that don't get as deep as ours tend to. So I don't necessarily mesh with their friends that well. It leaves me with the feeling that I'm going to go up there, graduate rather pathetically and more or less alone, and otherwise be sad when everyone else will be happy. And then? God knows what life has in store for me.

I guess you could call it an existential crisis. How nostalgic.

(PS: I did manage to fix things with that friend from Friday. He felt terrible, so did I, our mutual terrible feeling didn't really do well for the other's feeling terrible, so we agreed to do the movie again this weekend, and he promised to make up the birthday thing with a surprise in the future, which I'm actually looking forward to.)

I graduated desperately clinging to a bunch of superficial relationships, deluding myself into thinking that I had made friends during high school and was socially normal. I didn't/wasn't!

Yeah, I guess the genuineness of the two relationships I have going on now is a major plus. They've pretty much made my senior year. But then I have to think about the fact that we're all splitting up after the summer... and oh man. ;_; It gets worse~

My throat is bleeding!

Get well soon...?

Well, if you know the cause and it's not serious, my sympathies... if not, seek medical attention (sympathies also included in this).

Been coughing up a lung for the past three weeks. It's kind of wearing on my throat. Eck.

Sounds like pneumonia. Or strep. Bad strep. Should probably see a doc and get some antibiotics at this point before it gets worse.

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why are you even still awake?

Just make sure you have their phone number, and e-mail, and have added them on facebook/myspace. I thought once I got out of high school and summer hit I'd loose contact with a lot of friends (well...sort of did), but I've spoken often with friends from Vegas and I play xbox live all the time with friends from Del Rio. So just make sure you have ways to stay connected and keep an incentive to want to talk them regularly in your head and you'll stay close even if you're far apart


I also didn't want to walk but did anyway because 1. Mom wanted it and 2. Grandma would've killed me if I hadn't. During the ceremony I kind of just zoned out til we walked across the stage.