Saturday night catblogging: The sign of having no life

[sabotabby]

Sore throat? Check.
Fever? Check.
Urge to be home on a Saturday night even though my meeting wrapped up early? Check.

Oh fuck. I'm sick, aren't I?

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In weird news, I got a mass e-mail about boycotting France from my mom's friend. I didn't even know she had my address, let alone that she'd be so stupid as to fall for chain letters. It was rather offensive, containing a gratuitous diss against "the Arab countries" who export "just oil and hatred," and I did consider responding, but I figured it wasn't worth my while.

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I also feel the need to mention that Marinetti was meowing in his sleep—so loudly that he woke himself up—and that his breath smells like centipede.

Speaking of the devil:










Mr. Orange caught a car.


I guess I woke him up.

(I do have a life, by the way. I was doing culture all day—I saw Hosanna and checked out an old friend's art show. I'd recommend seeing both, but Heather's show is over tomorrow, so you're out of luck there.)

Comments

[human-loser.livejournal.com]

crap, I hope it's not what I had! Although I didn't have a sore throat, so...good sign!

[sabotabby]

I don't think I have what you had. If I recall correctly, yours came rather suddenly and involved the inability to breathe. This seems more like a run-of-the-mill cold.

[human-loser.livejournal.com]

phew...that means i can save up my guilt for other projects!

[pir-anha.livejournal.com]

sorry for the sick. get better soon!

as to the twit mass-mailing about boycotting france, i've found a new piece of writing that i am ready to send to anyone so foolish as to send me crap like that: http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/200601019_after_pats_birthday/

Three!??

[andreazenith.livejournal.com]

I didn't know you had *three* kitties!

*falls over*

KITTY LURVE.
*giggle*
That slang will forever make me giggle. Lurve. *giggle*

*GLOMPS*
Anj

...
ps- get better soon!!! I'll send some healthy warm fuzzies your way.

[sabotabby]

I'm sure I will. I think it's just a cold.

The weird thing was, it wasn't a call to boycott France over the Iraq war. I mean, I'm sure it originated from the same conservative think tank, but it was an attempt to appeal to (presumably progressive) Jews to boycott France because of several anti-Semitic incidents. All of which were terrible, of course, but none of which were actually initiated by the French government, so I wasn't certain what a boycott was supposed to accomplish.

Great article, though.

Re: Three!??

[sabotabby]

Thanks!

Mr. Orange isn't mine—he lives down the street—but he is among the friendliest of friendly cats in the neighbourhood, and he is pretty much always up for hanging out.

[lopukhov.livejournal.com]

Sign you are a true cat lady: "Friendly" neighbourhood cat lets you take photos of him everytime you see him. I bet the only reason he is so friendly to you is because he senses that you're a cat lady.

[ironed_orchid]

If I ever get another ginger cat, I'm calling him Mr. Orange.

[profane-stencil.livejournal.com]

"It can start after Pat’s birthday."
Is that our cue to get the guns out of the crawlspace? A lot of the commenters on that page seem to think it means, Vote for the Democrats!

[sabotabby]

It's true. The other day, I was walking home and a cat ran up to me and immediately flopped over so that I could scratch her. It's like I'm made of catnip or something.

[profane-stencil.livejournal.com]

his breath smells like centipede
Is that an improvement? With at least one of our cats, I'd be relieved to get a whiff of dead insects when he opens his mouth.

[sabotabby]

It's a good name. I have no idea what his real name is, but he answers to Mr. Orange, as much as a cat answers to anything.

[sabotabby]

It's worse than normal cat breath. I haven't changed his food or anything, so I've narrowed it down to centipede, which is the only other thing he's been eating.

[pir-anha.livejournal.com]

ah yes, it occurred to me afterwards in whose journal i was commenting, and that it might not be iraq-related. *duh*. :)

so much cat luv, though. never enough cat luv. even with undead centipede breath, which i am certain one of mine has had encounters with. late at night she stalks and stakes them. with her teeth.

[sadie-sabot.livejournal.com]

awwww....I miss my kitties.

[ocicat-bengals.livejournal.com]

Welcome to the sick club. I've taken every pill known in these parts
and I still feel like shit. Maybe I should do herbal.
The only people who want to boycott France are those idiots who
couldn't find it on a map. It makes you want to slap a stupid person.
Beautiful fluffy kitties. Nice Kia. He has good taste in large urban
terrain vechicles. But what does a centipede smell like?

[lopukhov.livejournal.com]

Like that one time, I was walking from a garage sale in my neighbourhood, and a HUGE (at least a 20-pounder) orange cat with lots of hair came up to me and started rubbing his head on my leg. He didn't do that to any other passer-by.


He tried to bite me when I tried to pet his head, though.

[saladbar.livejournal.com]

I haven't got an email like that in a long time. My friends' friends must be scare.

Wow! How many cats do you have?

[sabotabby]

:(

[sabotabby]

I can't describe the smell, but it's nasty.

I should take some eccinechia or something, although I don't feel quite so wretched this morning. Yet.

[sabotabby]

My relatives and family friends, mom and step-dad aside, haven't quite gotten the hang of the whole e-mail thing. They're at the awkward phase where they know how to use e-mail but don't understand the internets well enough to realize that chain letters, e-petitions, and joke forwards aren't useful, and in fact lead to feelings of rage in the poor recipient.

I have one cat, my roomie has a cat, and my landlady has a cat who thinks that he lives in our apartment. And the street is just cat-central, hence the random pictures of cats who aren't mine.

[zingerella.livejournal.com]

Echinachea is in the baking cupboard, for reasons unclear. Follow package instructions, and take with orange juice or grape juice or something that will cover the taste of the echinachea.

Vitamin C is in the same cupboard. I've finished all the ColdFX. I think there are some VC and zinc lozenges on the dresser beside my bed, help yourself.

Take care and I'll see you late Monday.

[saladbar.livejournal.com]

Dayum. I was going to dub thee cat lady.

Our admin assistant spammed everyone that email that said Bill Gates has some secret encoding and would send everyone money for every email sent. I felt sorry for the admin, that was an old and stupid trick email.

[sabotabby]

Wow, that was an interesting spelling of echinachea on my part. I blame the fever.

[ocicat-bengals.livejournal.com]

Yuck! Do they have kitty pastilles for better breath?
That's the stuff they say to take. I'll try the chemist.
I wish I had soom peppermint or spearmint oil to burn.
I cannot smell (well almost..cats you know...).
Heal soon.

[jk-fabiani.livejournal.com]

Hugs!

[sabotabby]

You rock.

Re: Three!??

[andreazenith.livejournal.com]

Oooooo. Swanky!

We've had a kitty visitor- he or she sits on the other side of our sliding doors and hisses at my Mum's cats. *snicker* Sooooooo pretty, tho! =*^.^*=

I've taken a few really bad pictures of the cat. Remind me to post them up sometime. LOL.

*hugglies*
Anj