A Cat By Any Other Name

      Still life with cats: the story of me

 

January 1, 2007

Unclear on the concept

The beauty of having the brain power of an overripe tomato is that the whole world is exciting and new every time you wake up.

 

January 5, 2007

Starting the longest month of the year

…the second night’s experiment was the sort of cooking where we each took a bite, gave a little shudder, looked at each other across the table, and then he ordered the pizza while I scraped the remains into the disposal

 

January 12, 2007

A nip in the air

And that is when we discovered that the thermostat in our office had apparently decided it wanted to stand in solidarity with the freezing temperatures outside, and thought we would all prefer it to be a nice, balmy 62 degrees.

 

January 14, 2007

Gentle slopes

…and so I figured the only way I was going to make room for getting this thing done was to gift it pre-knit, which would then force me (through a clever method of self-guilt) to get to work on it.

 

January 15, 2007

Seven years

…and storing it all up for the next few months until I get to do this again.

 

January 19, 2007

Light as a feather

…there is another test that I can fail besides just whether or not I have enough iron in my system

 

January 27, 2007

Itemized

How could I not make this? People, it has a detachable *shell*

 

January 30, 2007

In retrospect

When you are sitting on the imaging table, wearing nothing but your socks and two awkwardly designed hospital gowns, and the first thing the radiologist says to you, shortly after ‘Hello’ and ‘So how are we doing today’, is ‘So, did your doctor prescribe you any painkillers for this?’ , it is definitely far too late to rethink that whole concept of reading about the procedure online and thinking ‘hmm. it says there might be mild cramping. Oh, I don’t need to take anything for *that*’.