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One reason we admire cats is for their proficiency in one-upmanship. They always seem to come out on top, no matter what they are doing, or pretend they do. Barbara Webster I’ve been sitting at my desk worrying all morning. Clueless Wonder seems to be quite over whatever kitty flu he caught, but ACfH vomitted…

I am more open than I once was. It’s a strength. It’s a vulnerability. It takes me off-guard at times. The most profound moments in my life are those moments when the picture shifts. It’s the real life version of the optical illusion sketches that fascinated you as kids. You’ve seen examples of what I’m…

The serpent bites its own tail, and this hoop snake year comes to an end. A few things that describe my life at present: Frustration: The thing that most summarizes the year for me is that it’s the first full calendar year in my adult life that I have been neither employed nor a full…

The Prof should be home from classes shortly. We shall then hither to my godmother’s, where Elder Sister should be waiting. The Prof signs, I sign, godmother and sister witness and the form gets mailed back in the pre-stamped envelope the county provided for us. No fuss, no muss, no stress. I’ve been practicing my…

I made the mistake of exporting this diary to the new site in December. I did it with some encouragement from others who had already tried the new site and were testing out the new features. I didn’t like the options available for customization there, and decided to linger her as long as possible in…

Two thousand eight hundred and twenty-three believed dead. Three hundred and forty-three of them were firefighters. Many were killed instantly, but perhaps over a thousand of them survived the initial impacts. More than three hundred of them took advantage of the extra last minutes granted to them to phone or email to the outside world,…