Maybe twelve or fifteen years ago, my mother had told me that was what she really was interested in, to bring her dog back to life, so I had gotten some books from the library about it - they were ebooks and at the time I could only look at them for ten or fifteen minutes at a time... (I still can't look at the screen for too long, even at a ( Read more... )

I just watched a breast cancer video that said a woman ought to get screened for it every now and again.

It had tinkly piano music, but it didn't have any point to the melody. I think that is called "ambient" sound.

As a classical musician, I prefer when what I listen to has a point to it.

Then again, it probably was OK enough for the purposes of ( Read more... )

Hello, LiveJournal. My older cat Tilly wants me to go to bed, she's looking at me with agitation in her eyes, and just now gurgled at me in a go-upstairs-now way, but as I was showering, I was thinking, what exactly is it now.

She just gave up and climbed into my lap, so I'll go on now, even though it's probably fruitless to make sense out of ( Read more... )

Last night I visited the local hospital, and was sent home after just a few hours. I remember few concrete details except that the nurse called me by my mother's name. Also, I was very thirsty.
While it's true some people have confused the two of us at the end of my mother's life, she and I have separated in certain distinct ways. For example, my ( Read more... )

I am shocked and bewildered. I mean, everyone has to do it eventually, but...

I just slipped my purple sweatshirt back on because I am a West Chester University graduate and the person who passed away was a West Chester University professor. (Purple is one of WCU's colours. The other one is yellow.)

Even though goldenrod is a happy colour and I ( Read more... )

And drinking sencha, deciding that there is harmony enough between China and Japan at the moment that it doesn't matter that badly.

My friend Lauren journeyed to Japan. I did not, because my musical acumen was requested elsewhere in the world.

I remember playing a piano a little bit in Guizhou.

Oh! So this whole book must be why the cousin of ( Read more... )

I set my phone alarm to go off every ten minutes because I have just recently become aware that certain members of my family who can and will remove that monstrosity on my front patio are kleptomaniacs ( Read more... )

The Japanese word of the day that just came into my inbox is onchi! (音痴/おんぢ ( Read more... )

Yesterday my darling Sibling, Sibling told me she always tried to avoid cholesterol. This made me sad, but I couldn't voice why.

(Honesty is the best policy wrt: book club: I will voice my perturbed thoughts regardless of the Jewish people in the room come next Saturday!)

Chemically speaking, avoiding cholesterol is a drastic over-simplification ( Read more... )

When I was in high school, I think my threshold was a higher temperature. (Hehehe, threshold in Latin is limen! I only occasionally try that weekly translation business: I think right now the translation focus is on the story of Jason and the golden fleece? *pokes through Diana's website* That was a while ago, I think. Now 'tis he and the Argonauts ( Read more... )