There are five television shows I want to watch on today. Four of them are on from 10-11 PM. ARGH! (I have two DTV tuners. I guess I'd better check Hulu to see whether I can watch any of them there, if my computer can handle that site without burping. (In light of the paragraph after next, I'd better see whether I wrote down which ones I actually set up to record, and watch one of the others where I am. If I'm awake then.))
I keep starting journal entries and not finishing/posting them. Likewise email. This may have something to do with my needing to lie down after any five minutes of activity, and crashing at really bizarre hours.
I don't like scaring my friends. Unfortunately, as a result of what I mentioned in the preceeding paragraph, and being asleep at sane times to return phone calls, and not tracking the passage of days well, Sheepie got sufficiently scared by my lack of contact to round of Fred and come up to Baltimore to find out whether I was dead. And then to browbeat me into letting them take me, Perrine, and my car to my mother's house so that Sheepie will know someone has eyes on me until my body is working better. So I'm at Mom's house, Perrine is hiding under the bed, and I have my cane wedged against the bedroom door because I found out a few minutes ago that Pepper (Mom's wee, highly energetic dog) knows how to open it. I want the face-to-face meeting between Perrine and Pepper to happen when I'm already awake, not as a pre-dawn surprise.
I'm getting pissed off about cis/trans issues again. Not by anyone here, but at YouTube, Bilerico, and a few other places. Expect a half-education/half-rant entry in the next few days if I can stay awake long enough at a stretch. (Today's xkcd is rather a propos for a big part of it.)
Doggone it, I had something else completely in mind to write about before I started editing this file and found a partially completed entry from a few days ago in it.
Perrine is still mostly not eating and has lost a noticeable amount of weight. She asks me very emphatically for food, then whatever food I give her -- even wet food warmed up to make it easier to smell -- she sniffs at, turns away from, and resumes asking me for food. But I did coax her out from under the bed with a spoonful of tuna, rather dramatically. She was saying, "If you reach all the way under here I'll let you pet me, but I'm not coming out!" until the smell suddenly reached her, and the front third of her body shot out from the bed to reach the tuna. *whew* I'll be rather less worried when she starts showing some enthusiasm for regular cat food again.
I'm coughing again. :-( But at least it's a dry, tickly, feels-like-allergies cough rather than the feels-like-flu cough I had when I was in the grip of the flu. (Still annoying and hard to ignore though.)
My teacher from the Montessori school I went to died last week. My brother told me via Facebook (which I keep forgetting to log into). I missed the memorial service. I wonder whether she ever stumbled across any of the things I've said in various web fora about how much I feel I owe to my Montessori education.
I still can't remember what I was planning to say just before I started writing.
[added @ 5:17] Doh! I just remembered what I had in mind when I picked up the computer -- it wasn't a journal entry at all. I was going to transcribe a bit of music that had popped into my head. Let's see whether I can get it back. Damn you, fibro-fog.
"As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality." -- George Wasington (b. 1732-02-22[*], d. 1799-12-14; President of the US 1789-1797)
[*] Recorded as 11 Feb. 1731-32 in the Julian calendar, which England and her colonies used at that time; retconned to the equivalent Gregorian date, 22 Feb. 1732, when the Gregorian calendar was adopted in 1752. See a calendar for September 1752 for the changeover (on a Unix/Linux computer, type "cal 9 1752"). Note that different countries adopted the Gregorian calendar in different years.
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