For Franny

I just got my schedule for the foreign animal disease seminar I’m attending Thursday. There’s a catered lunch there, which I didn’t know about. A real lunch, on the State. Not one of those tables with graze-as-you-go doughnuts and stale coffee like they usually provide, but a sit-down and waiters in funny looking uniforms bring…

You get pushed out of the plane with no warning, and it’s 9.8 m/s2 straight down. The lurch in your stomach, the wind in your hair, everything so tiny beneath you growing steadily larger. You are all powerful, looking down on the ant hills below. The sense of weightlessness is almost exhilarating. You didn’t jump;…

… subtitled: Sets Of Three So here we are, one week post-Armegeddon. Ashes fall, buildings glow in the dark, and cats eat day lilies. But let’s put things in order, shall we? I inadvertently left my severance contract on my desk when I was escorted from the premises. I only had seven days to review…

*groan* Soap is a laxitive. After what I went through last Friday (my bowels still haven’t forgiven me) there is no way I’m even slightly tempted to partake of Super Anti-bacterial Dawn (the nice purple one). In fact, you have my ascending colon spasming just thinking about it. Speaking of Kitten from Hell with opposable…

“Everybody knows they’re going to die, ” he said again, “but nobody believes it. If we did, we would do things differently.” So we kid ourselves about death, I said. “Yes. But there’s a better approach. To know you’re going to die, and to be prepared for it a any time. That’s better. That way…

Another year older and deeper in debt. I’d say that sums today up nicely. Oh, by the way, anybody want to adopt a black-and-white kitten in ten days’ time? If so, you know how to find me. I’d called out sick yesterday, so I missed the opening scenes of this drama. Apparently the head of…