Just finished reading The Man With The Golden Arm. Jaysis, I'm depressed now. I've read two other books by Nelson Algren, but neither were as good as this one - last night I found myself crying for the protagonist. I haven't seen the movie, though - no real plans to. I wouldn't have chosen Frank Sinatra to play a workingclass junkie with no ( Read more... )

but I've been in a surprisingly good mood this week. Usually once it's over 80, I'm aggravated by everything - it's been 90+ the past three days and I'm like, yeah, it's hot, I'll survive. Maybe I'm finally reacclimated to the heat. No, it's more the possibility of change on the horizon ( Read more... )

You know what feels good? It's life following the moment you stop trying to reason with the unreasonable. It's very freeing. I'm going to have to practice this more often.

I found a good source of horoscopes from evendeeper - this is today's news for Scorpio.

The depth of your emotions will be quite obvious to others today, and to you, as well -- even if you think they're a secret. In fact, no matter what you're feeling, you'll feel it with all your heart, and right down to your toes. If someone asks for your opinion, before ( Read more... )

Taking Risa back to the vet this afternoon - nothing serious, she's just been licking her incision and part of it is open and leaking a bit of clear fluid. I noticed it last night and called the emergency vet. They said it wasn't serious and I could go to the normal vet today, unless she got really lethargic, or started crying in pain. Neither ( Read more... )

And they're fine, thankfully not as noisy and jump-around-like-wild-beasties as they usually are. They must not have eaten anything at the vet's, because they've gone through three cans of food (1.5 each) in three hours. They loathe kibble, but that's too damn bad. It's good for your teeth. And it doesn't taste that bad, if you like chicken ( Read more... )