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No pictures, yet!, but there are two new pets in the family -- fancy rats for eldest. She's named them Spike and Angel (yes, she's the Buffy fangirl in the family!). This makes six pets in the tiny house we call home: two dogs, one scorpion, one tarantula and two rats ( Read more... )

Where has my time gone the past few days? Meetings, meetings and more meetings. Student consultations. Compiling massive amounts of paperwork. Hacking around with our department website for all the good that does. Oh, and marking. And teaching. And driving places. Rinse and repeat. If it weren't for fandom distractions and friends to chat with, I'd ( Read more... )

There are some new puppies in town over at petbulls and they are so very, very cute:

See the cuteness!

Cuteness magnified!

Sharing some pet pictures involving a stuffed kitten and a Staffie Bull.
( Ozzie x 2 behind the cut -- warning for unbearable cuteness )

( Cut for TMI of the canine variety )

Ozzie picked up kennel cough last week after he'd been in the kennel over Thanksgiving. Okay, good enough -- he's getting better. So, now, Goldie gets kennel cough and poor Ozzie turns into a basket case?

Every time she coughs or hacks he hides and shivers. And she coughs and hacks a lot. Poor Ozzie. And poor Goldie (only she doesn't really seem ( Read more... )

From the NYT comes this gem of an article: ( Full text here with occasional shout outs of my own )

for meyerlemon. Here are my two dogs -- a Staffordshire Bull Terrier and a Shetland Sheepdog.


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