so, today i was called an orientalist who is unable to look at asian art from a non-western point of view by another art history grad student. whatEVER. i'm allowed to not like some anime and anime characters. i mean, i like some anime but i'm just not obsessed with it anymore and i don't think it's japan's highest art form ( Read more... )

it is so funny to see a cat pushed out of its comfort zone. basil is constantly tackling leif and then holds him down and bathes him. leif always looks annoyed but i'm glad basil has taken it upon himself to teach the little guy some proper hygiene ( Read more... )

i love basil so so so much and it makes me so upset that he's constantly trying to eat and drink poison. onions are bad for him so what does he try to go out of his way to munch? that's right, he tries to take a bite out of an onion. poison? sounds yummy, better take a bite. what's that? soapy water in your sink because you're doing the ( Read more... )

i love how on a lazy, gray, quiet sunday afternoon, all my animals take naps at the same time. CUUUUUUUTE! a sleeping kitty is sprawled out as far as he can get on the couch with his little fangs showing because he's upside down and my little piggies are all pooped and the little gerbils cuddle in their new fluffy stuffing i gave them this ( Read more... )

so, i'm very suprized that edwards beat hillary in iowa. she came in 3rd!!! i thought for sure she and obama would be neck and neck...but he totally dominated. so, go obama. i read online that he's got around 60% of the under 30 vote ( Read more... )

i should really be working on an essay right now but i'm not. i've been watching a lot of cartoons, drinking lots of coffee and beer and reading books for fun. i learned how to knit a hat (harder than i thought it would be) but now i know what all my siblings are getting for xmas. man, xmas might be really lonely. we're not sure if we're going ( Read more... )

well, basil might just hate me and joel at the moment. i tried to snuggle him and he was not having it. gave me a dirty look and walked a few feet away and then went back to sleep ( Read more... )

the past few days basil stopped eating, drinking and moving altogether. T_T i thought he was upset about the change in food, they fed him only wet stuff at the shelter and we feed him only dry or maybe he was lonely. we brought him to the vet today because kitties need to eat and drink and he was one sick kitty. he had a fever of 105 (kitties ( Read more... )

i spent thanksgiving in bloomington, in with friends and it was really fun. good friends and wii are great! i drank lots of wine, ate too much good food and smoked too cantaloupe flavored shisha but it was really nice despite the hangover, stomach-ache and scratchy throat that came afterwards. it was also nice to have other people cook for us, i ( Read more... )

so, basil thinks he is spider-cat. more than once we see him try to climb up walls. he always falls straight to the ground. he also likes the company of the guinea pigs. he's been sleeping in their cage lately, it's very cute. the guinea pigs are unamused, i can always hear them beep their dissent. basil keeps trying to be friends with them ( Read more... )