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Say 'Yeah, Right' to Michigan
Feb. 6th, 2005 02:57 amJanuary has passed me by in one big, slushy blur:
-- There was a lot of snow, I remember that much (because I had to shovel most of it, except what I was able to blow with a yard-sale snowblower).
-- There was a horrifying tsunami in Asia.
-- My wife and I tenatively adopted a stray dog ('tenatively' because we're still trying to find original owners, and because there are still questions of whether she (the dog) and the cats will be able to get along).
-- We got away to California for a few mostly sunny and warm days.
-- I wrote and edited novelish things.
-- I read books received over the holidays (including Susanna Clarke's outstanding and fun first novel, Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell).
-- Video games and television (including the welcome returns of 24, Alias, and Carnivale, along with the debut of the new Battlestar Galactica and new Lost and Arrested Development episodes) went on.
Some of this I'll revisit. In particular, how things go with the dog. She's a Shepherd mix (mixed with what, we don't know, but we suspect border collie, since she's got something of a collieish-wolfish look to her and she's smaller than a regular German Shepherd), about five years old, who we've named Unni (pronounced Ooh-nee) (after a friend of my wife's mother's who lives in Norway). We suspect she was abandoned, given that she's housetrained and knows some tricks, how long she had been out, and the lack of a collar, a microchip, and attempts to find her through local vets. She had a bad injury to one of her paws, which is fortunately healing without need of surgery, but is otherwise in great shape (despite being underweight) and has tons of energy and playfulness and a sweet disposition. I'll post a pic in a day or so.
In the meantime: February? Bah and double bah. How is it the shortest month of the year can feel like the longest?
-- There was a lot of snow, I remember that much (because I had to shovel most of it, except what I was able to blow with a yard-sale snowblower).
-- There was a horrifying tsunami in Asia.
-- My wife and I tenatively adopted a stray dog ('tenatively' because we're still trying to find original owners, and because there are still questions of whether she (the dog) and the cats will be able to get along).
-- We got away to California for a few mostly sunny and warm days.
-- I wrote and edited novelish things.
-- I read books received over the holidays (including Susanna Clarke's outstanding and fun first novel, Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell).
-- Video games and television (including the welcome returns of 24, Alias, and Carnivale, along with the debut of the new Battlestar Galactica and new Lost and Arrested Development episodes) went on.
Some of this I'll revisit. In particular, how things go with the dog. She's a Shepherd mix (mixed with what, we don't know, but we suspect border collie, since she's got something of a collieish-wolfish look to her and she's smaller than a regular German Shepherd), about five years old, who we've named Unni (pronounced Ooh-nee) (after a friend of my wife's mother's who lives in Norway). We suspect she was abandoned, given that she's housetrained and knows some tricks, how long she had been out, and the lack of a collar, a microchip, and attempts to find her through local vets. She had a bad injury to one of her paws, which is fortunately healing without need of surgery, but is otherwise in great shape (despite being underweight) and has tons of energy and playfulness and a sweet disposition. I'll post a pic in a day or so.
In the meantime: February? Bah and double bah. How is it the shortest month of the year can feel like the longest?
