we are 139

yesterday was my 138th entry ! hayyy.

this morning my eyes were so swollen and i looked like this guy:



christina put zyrtec eyedrops in my eyes, which was super relieving, and i took a zyrtec- the alavert i was taking just wasn't cutting it, and i feel a little better, but i also had to drink a 32 oz iced coffee to combat it and now i feel like, Very Insane.

the bigggggg news is that weirdo's owners found out we had her, so we had to bring her back to them. it was a bummer because she's back outside already. the cat seriously has zero street smarts and is constantly almost getting hit by cars. i guess they'll be sorry when she's dead? we'll miss you, weirdo (and i reserve the right to name any future cat i get "weirdo II" with a silent "II").



at least jeanne got to meet her ! jeanne came over and petted her forever, and then we ordered delicious thai food. i had crazy allergy head/face so i didn't feel like going anywhere, so we hung out at my house and talked. jeanne is coooooooool. after she left, i read some of huckleberry finn. wow, huckleberry finn is a total sociopath ! i remember his exploits sounding a lot more fun and clever when i was a kid and now i'm like, "what a maniac." i'm kind of kidding, but kind of not kidding too. reading nothing but huckleberry finn and a million genocide books and articles this semester is probably going to turn me into an empty shell of a person who eats a lot of corn pone.



i got some yarn in the mail, too, to make baby stuff for some babies ! first, i'm making mouse's nephew scottie a tiny little mailman replica cardigan (using a patch from one of mouse's old work shirts), and this pattern:



and knitpicks worsted swish superwash in dark navy:



and i'm going to make the presto chango cardigan for helen's upcoming baby



with garnet heather swish worsted yarn, which looks a little like this but is more vibrant with black heathering:



and these faux jet buttons from etsy:



i'm pretty excited to do some baby knitting, since it seems like things will knit up fast and i have a little while before i need to finish, but i ammmmmm a little worried about knitting time vs. school time. i barely knitted anything over summer, but knitting in the summer also kind of sucks. oh, i also bought these buttons on etsy, for use with... some other baby thing? maybe a fancy baby sweater?



they seem too beautiful to waste on a baby (i love babies, but they don't know an ornate button from a shit-lined shoe) but they're also super tiny and i think they'd get lost on any kind of adult garment. i just need to meet a really elegant and fancy and worldly baby. maybe a millionaire baby? dannielynn birkhead? hillary swank?



i guess i should get to work- i'm going to read huckleberry finn on my lunch break, and do a little reading for my genocide class. i have to write a response paper for that class, which is intimidating because i don't really know what that is. here's what the professor wrote us:

I encourage everyone to try out a response paper for Thursday. This will help you codify the definitional questions involved in the study of genocide and perhaps clarify some deeper thoughts you have on the subject. It will also give you a chance to see how these response papers work. As I mentioned last Thursday, guiding questions will be posted each week. Feel free to use them as a guide when writing your response paper. I have found that the most successful response papers engage one question or a set of closely related questions in a sustained way. Response papers are semi-formal--please correct spelling and grammar before handing them in! You should also feel free to draw on personal experience, and by all means use the first person.

hopefully this all works out and it isn't graded too harshly- we have 13 weeks in class and only have to write 10 papers, so i could skip it, but i want all the feedback i can get, so i'm going to try my best and try not to be too worried about "doing it wrong."

okay cya !

ay ! monstruo

i don't want to sound like a shill, but if you have a cat, i would like to recommend two very important products. the first is the furminator pet brush



which is the most amazing pet brush i've ever used. it's pretty gentle but removes all of the fur trapped in the undercoat and seriously removes more hair than i thought possible. pizza sheds A LOT and this brush is like... 500x better than any brush i've ever used, and doesn't irritate her skin like this type of brush. the second product is soft paws, which are little rubber nail caps to go over your cat's claws to prevent them from scratching furniture.



when i got pizza, i was 20 or 21, and i didn't give a fuck about furniture so i never deterred her from scratching or taught her to use a post. now that she's almost 7 she loooooves scratching furniture and these are the best deterrent. she can still grip stuff with her claws and isn't bothered or hindered by them, and they fall off when she sheds her nails naturally. plus they are fucking cute.

anyway, i bring this all up because as soon as some new soft paws come in the mail, i'm having a cat grooming night. it was surprisingly easy to get christina to help- i just said we were going to play "cat beauty parlor" and she was like, "!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LET ME GET MY ZYRTEC"



i didn't get very much done last night- i'm sort of off track this week as far as eating well and not being super lazy goes. i watched a movie on tv, knitted a few cable repeats on my mitten and tried to do a ten man ICC (but our internet kept crapping out. i don't think any daggers dropped, but they got to the lich king D: D: D:).

tonight mouse and i are going to dinner with kati and kev. i haven't seen kati since halloween and i haven't seen kevin in so long that i think our friendship reset and i don't know him anymore and i've never met him. we're going to thoreau, i think, a new vegetarian restaurant in the city owned by the same people who own blue sage.



i don't have super high hopes because most reviews say the food is kind of bland, but maybe i'll bring a container of that emeril seasoning or something. i also have been making the joke that we're going to "suck the marrow substitute out of life" and no one thinks it's funny. fuck the world.

that's about it for now. oh, mouse has a new nephew:



he really likes him so far, but i think mouse is disappointed that the baby isn't learning jiu jitsu fast enough. he'll probably give him another week.