It finally happened to me!
Really it did, I had an animal encounter! (I feel so accomplished now.)
I was heading back from a meeting with my professor, and there at the crosswalk was a black kitten, staring at the passersby with a very friendly expression. I got off my bike and started talking to the cat, he was rubbing his face all up and down the concrete, but didn't want to actually be touched. So I was following him along, trying to get him to come to me, and wishing that I had some kind of food with me- because he was really skinny.
As I was doing this, a guy came up and the kitty got spooked- somewhere along the way I started calling him Mal. Even though he was now in hiding, I couldn't forget it so I grabbed a piece of lunchmeat from my dorm (since FruitBat and her magical truck of cat food were not t the campus) and hoofed it back to where I saw the cat. I didn't see him there anymore, but left the meat anyway. I will confess that I felt pretty depressed that he wasn't there...
Anyway when FB got back I told her about the kitten and after dinner/studying we went back to where he'd been on our walk- Fruit Bat brought along a can of wet food, and we popped that sucker open and settled down to wait.
Let me tell you, seeing a black cat on a dark night, is not easy. But Mal did show up, and we then hoofed it over to the dorm to grab FB's truck and trap... we tried to get him into the big trap- but he was too clever and light to trigger the switch! So we caught him in the trap meant for rabbits and squirrels... lol.
I swear, Mal is adorable, and I feel wonderfully/horribly overprotective. We've got him at the lady who'd taken care of Mamma-kitty earlier. He let us pet him! He's really horrible at being feral... He let us hold him and fuss over him, and even when he wasn't happy that we held him he didn't claw or bite at us, he just squirmed.
Of course... none of us can keep him... but... I love him anyway.
My first animal rescue!
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Thursday, September 23, 2010
Mini-rant: it's FUN SIZE!
This is going to be quick, because I'm supposed to be studying for a test tomorrow.
This is... a rant on dual standards, particularly racism. I'm white, and as a white person I am very aware that there are things I can't say or do because they are racist.
But last night I went down to the laundry room with Fruit Bat, and there was Hispanic girl there loudly telling the entire room (about six of us) that she just can't get along with white people.
Wow.
That's just... wow. Four people in the room were white.
Doesn't she think that we might find that a little offensive? That she's stereotyping us like that? Of course, we can't say anything though, because heaven forbid that we ever get past our ancestors mistakes in dealing with people of other races. Everyone knows that white people are racist, it's impossible for any other "minority" race to be considered racist.
It just really bugs me- why should it matter? We're never going to get past this nasty racism thing if we can't all just ignore skin color- and I'm preaching to myself here too.
That girl could have said- "I don't get along with my roommate" (the basis for her claim.)
And then I wouldn't have been annoyed and looked over to see what ethnic background she was from. And all that jazz. And annoyance.
Also- I found out from Fruit Bat that apparently all Catholics believe that it is against God to spay and neuter their animals- which is news to her, since she's a Catholic. Yay uneducated stereotypes.
(No, it is not against God to spay/neuter animals, and catholics don't believe that it is.)
But anyway, back to studying.
This is... a rant on dual standards, particularly racism. I'm white, and as a white person I am very aware that there are things I can't say or do because they are racist.
But last night I went down to the laundry room with Fruit Bat, and there was Hispanic girl there loudly telling the entire room (about six of us) that she just can't get along with white people.
Wow.
That's just... wow. Four people in the room were white.
Doesn't she think that we might find that a little offensive? That she's stereotyping us like that? Of course, we can't say anything though, because heaven forbid that we ever get past our ancestors mistakes in dealing with people of other races. Everyone knows that white people are racist, it's impossible for any other "minority" race to be considered racist.
It just really bugs me- why should it matter? We're never going to get past this nasty racism thing if we can't all just ignore skin color- and I'm preaching to myself here too.
That girl could have said- "I don't get along with my roommate" (the basis for her claim.)
And then I wouldn't have been annoyed and looked over to see what ethnic background she was from. And all that jazz. And annoyance.
Also- I found out from Fruit Bat that apparently all Catholics believe that it is against God to spay and neuter their animals- which is news to her, since she's a Catholic. Yay uneducated stereotypes.
(No, it is not against God to spay/neuter animals, and catholics don't believe that it is.)
But anyway, back to studying.
Sunday, September 12, 2010
Sooo embarasssing!
Gah! I totally did not mean to spend my Sunday doing this.
Okay, so I've got an account on DeviantART, (as longtime readers will know) and today I was looking around at some stuff on there and came across some Pok'e'mon stuff.
*Wince*
As a kid, I was pretty into the show. I'll tell anyone who'll listen stories about how I woke up at 5 on Saturdays to watch "cartoons" that didn't start until 8. "Cartoons" really being code for two main shows, and any number of smaller ones. The two I cared most about?
Recess and Pokemon. And Pokemon was the one I liked more.
But it's a silly show, it's a KIDS show, it's been going on for 14 years and the main character is still 10 years old. So even though I saw these pictures and had a moment of nostalgia, there was no way that I was going to actually WATCH THE SHOW.
Yeah... right.
So this is what's really embarrassing- not that I went back and watched the first episode anyway (because I still watch a lot of cartoons), not even that when the theme song started playing some part of my brain (damaged no doubt from watching infomercials for three hours waiting for my shows to start) remembered to get excited and a goofy grin stretched across my face, but that I watched the show.
And I enjoyed it.
ADGGHADOSIBGAWSE!
Just two or three years ago I watched the first episode again and it seemed inane and stupid and I couldn't stop mocking it and had to turn it off before I finished because I couldn't handle it!
Today I sat and watched it and laughed at all the ridiculous parts and couldn't believe I was watching it, couldn't turn it off, couldn't stop smiling!
And I'm going to watch the second episode!
If this keeps up, Fruit Bat may have to hold an intervention.
Okay, so I've got an account on DeviantART, (as longtime readers will know) and today I was looking around at some stuff on there and came across some Pok'e'mon stuff.
*Wince*
As a kid, I was pretty into the show. I'll tell anyone who'll listen stories about how I woke up at 5 on Saturdays to watch "cartoons" that didn't start until 8. "Cartoons" really being code for two main shows, and any number of smaller ones. The two I cared most about?
Recess and Pokemon. And Pokemon was the one I liked more.
But it's a silly show, it's a KIDS show, it's been going on for 14 years and the main character is still 10 years old. So even though I saw these pictures and had a moment of nostalgia, there was no way that I was going to actually WATCH THE SHOW.
Yeah... right.
So this is what's really embarrassing- not that I went back and watched the first episode anyway (because I still watch a lot of cartoons), not even that when the theme song started playing some part of my brain (damaged no doubt from watching infomercials for three hours waiting for my shows to start) remembered to get excited and a goofy grin stretched across my face, but that I watched the show.
And I enjoyed it.
ADGGHADOSIBGAWSE!
Just two or three years ago I watched the first episode again and it seemed inane and stupid and I couldn't stop mocking it and had to turn it off before I finished because I couldn't handle it!
Today I sat and watched it and laughed at all the ridiculous parts and couldn't believe I was watching it, couldn't turn it off, couldn't stop smiling!
And I'm going to watch the second episode!
If this keeps up, Fruit Bat may have to hold an intervention.
Monday, September 6, 2010
I'm Baaaaack!
greetings earthlings!
My computer is back from the grave, and it doesn't complain as much now either!
Anyone who's worked in the same room as my gray matter will testify that the fan runs a lot, and very VERY loudly. But since we got the new hardrive, I haven't heard a peep out of my mechanical brain.
I'm also back from a weekend back home, there have been some difficulties in re-obtaining employment at my previous location, so I don't have my job back quite yet. This just meant that for the three day weekend I got to go home, ostensibly to get my computer fixed and meet Hodgins, the newest addition to the family.
My dad was in the parking lot at a GoodWill when he came across a kitten. A starved, oil-spattered, 4-5 week old kitten. So he took it back home with him, he's been taken to the vet, checked out, and is now being spoiled to within an inch of his little loud-purring life.
My computer is back from the grave, and it doesn't complain as much now either!
Anyone who's worked in the same room as my gray matter will testify that the fan runs a lot, and very VERY loudly. But since we got the new hardrive, I haven't heard a peep out of my mechanical brain.
I'm also back from a weekend back home, there have been some difficulties in re-obtaining employment at my previous location, so I don't have my job back quite yet. This just meant that for the three day weekend I got to go home, ostensibly to get my computer fixed and meet Hodgins, the newest addition to the family.
My dad was in the parking lot at a GoodWill when he came across a kitten. A starved, oil-spattered, 4-5 week old kitten. So he took it back home with him, he's been taken to the vet, checked out, and is now being spoiled to within an inch of his little loud-purring life.
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