Close Quarters is this weekend, and while it felt a little touch and go there for a while, it looks like everything's mostly in order, and I'm totally excited. The loss of my little Arnold, which was two years ago today, cast a bit of a pall for me over the first one. Minotaur's death made preparations for this one tough going for a bit, but at ( Read more... )

At the end of my first full year in fandom - 2003 - I found myself in the very same chair where I sit right now, writing "Thanks and Thoughts About my Year in Slash." As I wrote that night, for a variety of reasons I'm not usually given to looking back over the past year and counting my blessings, or looking to the new year and making plans or ( Read more... )

I really can't bear the thought of becoming tiresome about this, but I can't seem to keep myself from talking about it because it's just always on my mind...so I'm going to put Arnold stuff behind a cut-tag, where it can be easily ignored.

( Arnold )

So Close Quarters is over - it really happened. Some of the wonderful people who came have been posting about it, but I figured that I really ought to say a little myself. I haven't said too much over the months I've been preparing for it - somehow I can't seem to figure out how to use my LJ that way, for that sort of ongoing life update, and I ( Read more... )

Thank you, so much, to all of you who responded about Arnold with your sympathies and kind words and hugs. I'm overwhelmed by all the support. I can't quite bring myself to respond to each of you individually right now, but I've read all your comments, many times, and though it makes me cry - of course, everything does, right now - knowing you're ( Read more... )

Arnold is gone. The vet called, and to make a long story short, he got worse over the past day rather than better. His kidneys had almost completely shut down, even aside from the neurological damage from the stroke. There was no hope for recovery anymore, and it was just...time. So we drove out to the cat emergency hospital/specialist vet ( Read more... )

My little Arnold is in the cat hospital, in intensive care... He probably had a stroke yesterday, and between that and his extremely limited kidney function (which may indeed have caused the stroke), well, things don't look good. I'm giving it a little time to see whether the measures they took last night had a significant positive effect, but I'm ( Read more... )