featuring Hee Seop
Somebody has to go to the vet tomorrow! Nothing serious, just his annual check-up, rabies shots, etc. Hee Seop still tries to hide under things, even though there aren’t many places for him to hide anymore. We got rid of our old box spring in which he tore a hole and just loved to climb into. But this would have been awful if there were an emergency.
We needed a new mattress anyway, so we replaced the whole thing with a platform bed. No more “under the bed”! And extra storage space for us. It was kind of funny watching him try to hide “under the bed,” a space that no longer existed. He was like, “What happened?”
Since then, Hee Seop’s doing remarkably well sleeping out in the open, which is huge progress for him. There’s still a box of old files under the kitchen table where he can retreat, though.
Angelo says: More pet pics are available for your viewing pleasure at this week’s
Friday Ark. If you post your own pets’ photos, leave them a trackback or comment and you’ll be listed there, too. And remember — they don’t limit pictures just to cats!
For the past half hour I’ve been on the verge of tears for absolutely no reason. There are really only 2 explanations: PMS or depression. I’m thinking it’s the latter. Well, or maybe the 8″ – 12″ inches of snow we’re expecting! *wah*
I’ve been using EMSAM for 5 days now, which, it turns out, is 1 day longer than I used it in the past. Or if I used it longer, I didn’t see any posts written about it because I ended up having ECT again — and get this — although I was depressed at the time, I was doing TONS better than I’m doing now! I mean, I was still playing hockey! This was almost exactly 3 years ago. I had trouble writing blog posts, so Brian kept readers apprised of what was happening, but besides that, I was doing quite a bit better.
That doesn’t bode well. Part of me wants to go ahead and have ECT so I can feel better NOW. But I’m finally regaining my short-term memory and can actually remember things, like movies I’ve seen and books I’ve read recently; it isn’t like once I’ve seen or read them, I’ve pretty much forgotten what they were about. It’s a huge trade-off.
In other news, I’m still in therapy twice a week. I had my ankle MRI yesterday and the results will be in tomorrow. Part of me hopes they find something wrong so they can actually fix it instead of guessing at treatments. Gah.
by Lionel Shriver
What’s it like to raise a child who winds up wounding and murdering some of his high school classmates, including a teacher? Is it because of your lack of maternal skills, maybe even a dislike of your own child? Is it because he was born with an inherent malice so strong it drove him to commit this act? He isn’t an outcast, teased by his classmates and the last chosen in a game of kickball. He’s incredibly intelligent, almost frighteningly so, and comes from an upper-middle-class suburban family. So how did this happen — not why but how?
These are the questions Eva Khatchadourian ponders in a series of letters to her estranged husband Franklin: was she a bad mother, or was Kevin born evil? Eva recounts other, milder but no less disturbing events surrounding Kevin throughout his life, each gaining in maliciousness and lead to his final act of murder. Her story begins even before Kevin’s birth, when she and Franklin discuss whether or not to have children, and the circumstances of his conception seem to arise from a whim.
Though We Need To Talk About Kevin is a page-turner, the narrative doesn’t read like correspondence; they’re so detailed and include information that Franklin would presumably already know, framed in reminiscence. The epistolary form isn’t truly achieved because the story reads like a traditional novel. But it works. I enjoyed this book very much.
featuring Basil (l) and Hopper (r)
We finally bought a new comforter last December. It’s spread over our futon because it had just come out of the dryer but wasn’t completely dry yet. So of course, our fur kids got to use it before we did.
I tried fixing Basil’s “laser eyes” with Paint Shop Pro, but couldn’t quite get it right.
Angelo says: More pet pics are available for your viewing pleasure at this week’s
Friday Ark. If you post your own pets’ photos, leave them a trackback or comment and you’ll be listed there, too. And remember — they don’t limit pictures just to cats!
Remember a while back I participated in The Great Interview Experiment 2009? You sign up, then you’re assigned a blogger to interview and a different blogger is assigned to interview you. I interviewed Wendy, who writes Midwest Green. You can read the interview here if you missed it the first time.
Supa Dupa Fresh, who writes the blog Fresh Widow, interviewed me! You can read her interview here: The Great Interview Experiment: Barb of Bloggo Chicago. I hope you all enjoy it! It really made my day. 
