I am inexplicably cheerful and energetic today ( Read more... )

After having my French press at work for most of the week, I now want to buy an extra one to leave here. And an extra coffee grinder. See, I've been running late all week, so I bought some cream to leave in the fridge at work, and have been grinding my coffee beans every morning at home and bringing them in. Good coffee at work in the morning = ( Read more... )

We have babiesIt's kitten season at HSHV, and today we had at least 10 tiny tiny kittens come in--bottle babies. They needed foster homes. It's a harsh thing, but while HSHV doesn't euthanize for space, these are kittens that need 24/7 care, and we can't provide that at the shelter. Without foster homes, we can't care for babies this young. And ( Read more... )

When I started working at HSHV, I didn't know much about feral cats or how humane societies and rescue groups are caring for them. I didn't know anything at all about trap, neuter, and return programs (TNR), that help assure these cats live out healthy, happy lives. Now I'm convinced it's the most humane and caring solution to the problem of feral ( Read more... )

I have little to add that most of my friends list hasn't already added, but I will say, I watched the returns in the middle of a radio station newsroom, in between posting news stories to the web site and updating numbers on the results page. I watched with journalists, interns, and one of the cleaning staff. And when the speeches started, work ( Read more... )

Working on posting the new Anita Blake book excerpt for later today. As such excerpts often are, it's the first chapter of the book. Anita, Nathaniel, and Jason spend half of the chapter trying to decide where to have sex (because apparently Jason just broke up with a girlfriend who--horrors!--only wanted to have sex in the bedroom). The dialogue ( Read more... )

Grar. Today has been the sort of day that drives me most insane. Not dead enough that I can justify totally slacking all day, but not busy enough to keep me fully focused on work. All I can do is keep checking email and LJ, but can't really do much else (hence my badness about replying to comments and emails this afternoon). And you people are ( Read more... )

Hi, I'm Lisa. I'll be your dope this morning ( Read more... )

So now I know what author to avoid. I had to post an excerpt for Chuck Palahniuk's upcoming book, Snuff. It was unsettling and disturbing and kind of gross, but in a "now I wanna read this and see what happens next" sort of way. Out of curiosity, I went looking on the web, and found two short stories from Haunted. Now, I own a copy of Haunted, but ( Read more... )

So, there's nothing like missing a day of work on the day layoffs are announced and coming back to discover that while you were out, your boss and a co-worker had to go through and rebuild EVERYTHING you'd built the day before due to a website outage. (Y'all, my awesome, awesome former boss got laid off--I am so sad ( Read more... )