the quadruped situation

so, i had a cat.
she was an awesome being. seriously, when i think about her personality, and the quirks she had, i smile. she was the only cat i ever met who would burp. and eat crackers. and fetch. and snore. losing her was tough. i had raised her from the tender age of six [...]

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technology is awesome. and evil.

hi. i’m still here.
i have no good excuse for not posting in such a long time. other than, there may have been some drinking.
there may have also been some shenanigans.
also, there may have been a new addition to my little army.
i have missed you, internet.
here’s the thing. i really like the internet. like, as something [...]

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waiting for the west coast takeover

here’s the thing. i love living in the portland area. there is so much lunacy to be had. there are drag queens, yarn shops, and strange eateries scattered all about the area code.
but, what we don’t have? erik’s deli.
during my high school years, i lived in santa cruz, california. a lovely pocket of nuttiness, where [...]

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i can’t even think what to put here

ophelia thunderpaws
time of death: friday, march 13, 2009. 9:15pm
i just couldn’t let her suffer anymore.
y’all excuse me for a bit.

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please leave a message

so, yeah.
… do you ever have those times where you don’t even know where to begin? i’m having one of those times.
this week, kitten has been lethargic. not herself. slightly out of breath and exhausted. but then, she’s 10. which is, like, 60 in cat years. i took her into the vet. which was a [...]

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a new day is dawning

when i was graduating from high school, one of the instructors gave a speech that rubbed my cortex the wrong way. every paragraph, it seemed, started with the phrase “a new day is dawning.” it drove me – and a fair percentage of my fellow graduates – bonkers. i mean, it was pretty hot outside. [...]

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the lost art of paying attention

maybe i’m just overly sensitive to this sort of thing, but has anyone else noticed a marked decline in manners and etiquette? i mean, i’m not the nicest or most well-mannered human on the planet. i doubt i’m even in the top 1,000. however, i know enough to know that people in general are losing [...]

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things i don’t wanna say

inside my head, there’s a voice that says stuff like, if you say that out loud, then it totally makes it true. i must be twelve years old or something. that’s right up there with stepping on cracks truly breaking your mother’s back. meaning, it feels silly to think such things. i should be good [...]

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are you obligated?

i’ve been thinking a lot about obligations as of late. while it started before my trip to california, i can say i became totally conscious of it while in one of the many gift shops at disneyland. specifically, while i was looking at the watches.
about a thousand years ago, i dated this guy who wore [...]

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wish you were here*

my darling j,

it’s fall again, and i’m thinking of you. it’s amazing to me that, after all these years, i still think of you when the leaves change, and it gets darker earlier. why is that? it’s not like fall ever held any significance for us. i met you in the summer. neither of us [...]

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