The two-hour Office Special is on tomorrow night. Ohboyohboyohboy! I’m so very excited. Ricky Gervais created what David Letterman called “possibly the best television show ever” (or something to that effect) the other night, and I totally agree. If you have BBC America, or if you have a friend who has it, make a point to watch it.
Well, Jeep is just fine. There is absolutely nothing wrong with her. I think the tootache hypothesis wasn’t far from wrong, though. This past weekend, I found a nearly whole vomited-up toy kitty ball on the sofa. I, of course, assumed it was Maggie’s doing, as Maggie is prone to eat inedible things, then throw them up later. There was yet another portion (the rest?) of the ball vomited on to the sofa yesterday. I think this is what was causing Jeep grief. Her appetite is completely normal, as is her blood test. But in order to take her blood, they shaved her neck, so she looks just a little bit stupid!
Baldy, or “Garibaldi,” as I’ve been calling her.
So recently Maggie seems to have been getting fatter, and Jeepers seems to have been getting thinner and feeling a bit under the weather. As as result, I started really watching the girls when they eat, and Jeep has been eating very slowly. She picks up pieces of food with her paw and throws them on the floor, then after a lot of time has passed, it ends up with Jeep’s blowl surrounded by wet tiny pieces of food. She’s also been doing this thing where she opens her mouth when she’s sitting around, like there’s something in there. I assumed it was hairballs, since I now have hardwood floors instead of carpet, and keeping the hair collection in the corners of the rooms is a real challenge. When I fed her some of the hairball remedy from the tube a few nights ago, she ate it up in seconds flat, like she’d been starving.
Night before last I sat and guarded Jeep as she ate, protecting her from her Hungry Hungry Hippo of a sister. It just seemed she was having a lot of trouble. Aaron had the genius idea that perhaps Jeep had a toothache. Yesterday, we went and got her some wet food, and she gobbled it up lickety split. Now that she’s had a few meals, she’s back to her old self, although I can tell the tooth is still bothering her. Poor baby wasn’t getting any food and was feeling weak and puny because of it. Reading cat behavior is tricky business. I think it’s time for a trip to the vet.
Jeepers in a Sunbeam
Jeepers in a Sunbeam again
It’s hard to help kids when I don’t have a phone or a computer in my cubicle. When I need to test kids, a test kit would be nice, too. So many of these kids start out at such a disadvantage to begin with, then the person in charge of their case is scrambling to find a place to make a call to their parents or a places to type a report so they will get what they need.
I’m paid very little, and then I am expected to look professional, which costs money. I used to dress up two days a week to teach. Now it’s 5 days a week, and I don’t have the wardrobe, yet I don’t make enough to cover the cost of buying new duds. I bought a new bag, too, which sounds frivolous, but there’s something about wearing a backpack in a high school that makes me blend in just a little too easily.
Computers are a problem, too. Aaron has loaned me his laptop, since I don’t have a computer in the schools, but there isn’t a way to transfer files to the computers there, so yesterday, I bought a new jump drive (my old one was stolen this summer). More money gone that I don’t have.
I’m almost 35, and I tell you, I just can’t wait to make a salary, so I don’t have to beg, borrow, and steal to cover the basic costs of things I require to do my job properly.
OMG! One company both created spyware that infected computers AND created and charged for the software to disinfect infected computers! That is just all kinds of evil. Ugh!
