Today I got a beautiful sympathy card from my vet.  Not the animal hospital, but the actual vet ( Read more... )

...Rock Band.  I don't think I'll need Rock Band II for a bit - this one has *two* NIN packs, and one of the tracks is "The Collector" from With Teeth which has the most kickass drum part ( Read more... )

    Today, I find myself sitting in the recliner, missing Shiva.  She almost always was in whatever room I was in, lying against the wall or curled up on the rug. Every time I look at the place in the living room where she'd lay down, it hits me and there's this twinge.  It sucks ( Read more... )

   I came home from the Cantab tonight knowing Shiva was not feeling so well.  She had laid down in the hallway oustide the bathroom and was sleeping there.  I was worried, but she's had a time like this before but came through it.  On the way home, I was wondering when I would know it's time to have her put to sleep, which has been one of my ( Read more... )

We came together ( Read more... )

"Fifteen Step" - Radiohead
How come I end up where I started
How come I end up where I went wrong
Won't take my eyes off the ball again
You reel me out then you cut the string

How come I end up where I started
How come I ( Read more... )

  There's a fearsome ease in the way years can slip past when you're not paying attention.

It's not so much that the time has passed - I know that, and it's been a damn long time.  But the actual numbers of how many years, when I'm confronted with actual numbers, they scare the hell out of me.  I know I'm supposed to be easier with myself, to not ( Read more... )

 Wow.

Videotape  - Radiohead
When I'm at the pearly gates
This will be on my videotape, my videotape
Mephistopheles is just beneath
and he's reaching up to grab me

This is one for the good days
and i have it all here
In red, blue, green
Red, blue, green
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