All right, wrong song. But the point is . . . Tamlin has returned ( Read more... )

1.) I just finished my on-line summer coursework. It was miserable. I have decided that I hate on-line classes, and never want to do them ever again. I learn by listening, by discussing, and through hands-on experience, not from having a textbook thrown at me and my instructor saying, "GO ( Read more... )

1.) It has become official. I am moving into a small cabin in the middle of the woods ( Read more... )

My birthday is in an hour, and instead of curling up in bed so I can get enough sleep before work tomorrow, I am going to update.

( Dizzy year. )

After much agonizing over spending such frivolous money, I went out yesterday and bought . . . a digital camera (since I had no camera at all). Of course, the first thing I took pictures of was . . . my kitten!

I now share delightfully cute photographs of Tamlin, who has more or less doubled in size since I procured him.


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My kitten is adorable. This morning I woke up to the sound of purring and a tiny little marmalade kitten nuzzling under my chin and licking me with a very raspy tongue. This was charming until I rolled over and realized it was 5:40. Then it was still charming, but instead of encouraging him, I rolled over and went back to sleep. I woke up again ( Read more... )

1.) I have a kitten. His name is Tamlin. He is coming home with me this Sunday. He is yellow and stripy and just over six weeks old (will be almost seven on Sunday). I am knitting him a felted wool cat bed from very cheap undyed wool procured at the Putney spinnery. Little marmalade cat a in little grey nest, that's what he's going to be ( Read more... )

1.) I've been working at the Putney Head Start for a week now. The children are handfuls (some more than others) and also insufferably adorable (some more than others). I love perhaps too easily, and I already love them all very much ( Read more... )