Um, it's been a while?
I just haven't gotten into the LJ habit, I suppose. I occasionally compose a post in my head that never actually makes it to the posting page. But wow, it's been months. Some random stuff follows.
Fannishly: No spoilers, mostly because I haven't really processed it yet (or watched it enough) but I find myself feeling sad that Stargate SG-1 is over. Except for the movies. Which means it really isn't over, so why am I feeling sad? I've wasted way too many hours watching the show and reading fanfic about the characters, time that should have been invested in the OMGWTF!Dissertation. Oh well, I still have Atlantis. The McShep is as adorkable as ever.
I could insert the usual graaaaading-related plagiarism story here. This term's is a doozy; I subjected some ICFA-goers to part 1 at the conference, but I have a post-conference sequel. To make a long and kinda funny story short, I caught a plagiarist by Googling phrases from her draft while she was sitting right next to me during an individual meeting about her essay. I gave her a zero on the assignment and warned her that if she did it again, she'd fail the course and be reported to her faculty; I also pointed out how very quickly and easily I'd caught her.
Fast forward to the sequel: Yup, she did it again on the final draft.
The bigger deal these days is my poor sweet babboo, Bailey the formerly-gorgeous ragdoll. Just before Christmas, he was a big cat, about twenty pounds, beautiful white ruff and belly. In a matter of a few weeks, he dropped more than half his weight, lost a lot of his fur, and has something funky going on with his toes: they're all thick and grooved, and I can't clip even the tiniest tip without getting the quick and having him bleed all over the place. The only weird thing in his bloodwork was a slightly elevated thyroid level, so the vet put him on Tapazole and his level returned to normal, but his symptoms haven't disappeared. He's on prednisone (her thinking is that some kind of allergy got kicked into overdrive because of the thyroid) and his skin is no longer quite so red and scaly, but he's pretty much naked. Remember Gremlins? The leader of the bunch that terrorized the town, all scaly lizard with a few tufts of hair here and there? Yup, that's my baby. He's anorexically thin even though he can't stop eating.
I know a number of people on my flist are cat people...any thoughts beyond the vet's diagnosis of hyperthyroidism exacerbating some kind of allergy?
Fannishly: No spoilers, mostly because I haven't really processed it yet (or watched it enough) but I find myself feeling sad that Stargate SG-1 is over. Except for the movies. Which means it really isn't over, so why am I feeling sad? I've wasted way too many hours watching the show and reading fanfic about the characters, time that should have been invested in the OMGWTF!Dissertation. Oh well, I still have Atlantis. The McShep is as adorkable as ever.
I could insert the usual graaaaading-related plagiarism story here. This term's is a doozy; I subjected some ICFA-goers to part 1 at the conference, but I have a post-conference sequel. To make a long and kinda funny story short, I caught a plagiarist by Googling phrases from her draft while she was sitting right next to me during an individual meeting about her essay. I gave her a zero on the assignment and warned her that if she did it again, she'd fail the course and be reported to her faculty; I also pointed out how very quickly and easily I'd caught her.
Fast forward to the sequel: Yup, she did it again on the final draft.
The bigger deal these days is my poor sweet babboo, Bailey the formerly-gorgeous ragdoll. Just before Christmas, he was a big cat, about twenty pounds, beautiful white ruff and belly. In a matter of a few weeks, he dropped more than half his weight, lost a lot of his fur, and has something funky going on with his toes: they're all thick and grooved, and I can't clip even the tiniest tip without getting the quick and having him bleed all over the place. The only weird thing in his bloodwork was a slightly elevated thyroid level, so the vet put him on Tapazole and his level returned to normal, but his symptoms haven't disappeared. He's on prednisone (her thinking is that some kind of allergy got kicked into overdrive because of the thyroid) and his skin is no longer quite so red and scaly, but he's pretty much naked. Remember Gremlins? The leader of the bunch that terrorized the town, all scaly lizard with a few tufts of hair here and there? Yup, that's my baby. He's anorexically thin even though he can't stop eating.
I know a number of people on my flist are cat people...any thoughts beyond the vet's diagnosis of hyperthyroidism exacerbating some kind of allergy?