a wolf angel is not a good angel

There is likely to be downtime soon, as I change hosting companies.

Update: downtime will be tonight, I think it takes a day or so to propagate.

A combination of cat pee and cat pee remover, or wet cat food?

In other news, I think I might just sleep on the futon tonight.

i hate you die and rot in hell scum bags.

SHut the fuck up anonymous bith fuck off and brooms up your ass bitch

Matilda just peed on my bed (a lake, a sea). This means she is not happy (as she is clearly healthy). Time to lock the cats out of my bedroom and have it just her, me, some cat food, a litter box, and tonight’s new episode of Heroes. I’m sorry, baby — I’ve put you through a lot lately.

They’ll be gone soon(er or later).

How bad is it that I totally want to steal this idea? They’re so much fun. I particularly like Haystacks, End of Summer, Morning Effect, with Horsies.

Cause I’ve been lazy. I’m sure I’m missing lots, but whatever. At no point should these scores be related to anything but the scores in this post, because I am totally inconsistent.

Misfortune : a novel / by Wesley Stace. (7/10)
I really enjoyed this. Oh, the ending was rather predictable, but it was still cute and fun, though perhaps a bit long.

A field of darkness / by Cornelia Read. (9/10)
Very good, as a general mystery novel. Nicely written! Based on fairy tales!

The skirt man / by Shelly Reuben. (8/10)
The entire time I read this book, I was angry that the skirt man died. Good? Yes. But frustrating, to be so much wanting to see a character as himself, instead of through the eyes of everyone else.

Our culture, what’s left of it : the mandarins and the masses / by Theodore Dalrymple. (can’t decide)
Ugh. The guy is a brilliant writer, sure, but it’s strawmanariffic.

The night journal / by Elizabeth Crook. (7.5/10)
Another book I liked. Hurray! I recommend it, too. A sort of accepting-your-family, from the adult perspective, ish, book.

A spot of bother : a novel / by Mark Haddon. (8.5/10)
I know this got mixed reviews, but I thought it was really good. It’s hard to make a man losing his mind funny, but he is, as is the just general disintegration of the family.

The pure in the heart : a Simon Serrailler crime novel / by Susan Hill. (5/10)
Bleh, whatever. Didn’t do it for me. You cannot leave every single plotline open at the end of a mystery. You don’t have to tie them all up, but you can’t just end it at “ok, well, enough pages, bye then”.

Black swan green : a novel / by David Mitchell. (6.5/10)
I wasn’t as taken with this as Cloud Atlas. It’s good, but not particularly.

The fearsome particles / by Trevor Cole. (9/10)
Another book I really liked! I seem to be into the multiple viewpoints now. Book about a family figuring out what it means to be in the same family. I also want the wife’s job in this book.

Stumbling on happiness / by Daniel Gilbert. (6.5/10)
Interesting read, though none of it was particularly shocking news.

Theft : a love story / by Peter Carey. (6/10)
It was okay. I found the multiple viewpoints here distracting, because of the tone of the other brother. But I usually like art-world-based novels, so that worked.

Suspect / by Michael Robotham. (6.5/10)
I liked the book until the end, where the credible became in. Another easy to read crime book.

Moral disorder / by Margaret Atwood. (4/10)
Something about this one gripped me at first and then totally let me go.

Is there something wrong with my blog and people cannot comment, or am I just posting nothing anyone actually cares to comment on?

Two days ago, I fix my evil sister’s computer. Again.

Yesterday, my mother and I are doing the crossword puzzle in the kitchen. My evil sister walks in to eat dinner (my sisters ordered pizza, my parents and I ate barbecued stuff later). She gets mad that my mother and I are doing a puzzle because, I don’t know, she doesn’t like it. She asks us to stop, she’d like to talk to my mother. I say we were here first, blah blah.

Eventually I say fine, let’s talk! I ask her about something: she ignores me. I keep trying to talk to her. She alternately ignores me and yells at me that she’s not talking to me, and that I should shut up. I say fine, continue doing the crossword puzzle, though I read a bunch of the clues out loud. She gets mad. I say I’m happy to do either, she just needs to choose. She gets madder. She says she doesn’t want me doing the crossword puzzle in front of her. She says she doesn’t want to talk to me, either. She does not seem to understand how her dislike of me doesn’t mean I’m going to not exist except when she needs stuff from me.

From a letter in the Gazette: As a senior manager, I arrive at my office at 7:15 each morning: Half of my staff has already been there for at least half an hour, alert, switched on and productive. We usually eat lunch at our desks and don’t leave the building until at least 5 p.m., often later. There is no griping, no grumbling, no anger at “the bosses.” It is perceived as normal. He later goes on to say how no one takes vacation days, either. Amazingly, these people who work 50 hours a week at least, do not actually complain to their bosses about the amount of work, and therefore they don’t complain at all.

On the CBC: a Harvard professor talking about how overwork is really bad for productivity, so companies should take pains to avert it by not letting anyone work more than 80 hours a week.

In what is possibly unethical, my sister took two of the kittens to take care of for a while. I’m not worried — I’m a few minutes away, and she’s very conscientious about animals. She took the ones with eye infections (don’t know why), so my house is now full of only healthy cats! It’s like a miracle. (The eye infections are being treated, and if they don’t clear up soon I’ll phone the vet. Again. My friend’s cat had some eye infection that ended with the eye all but hanging out of the socket, and blindness in that eye, though he’s otherwise healthy now.) The two kittens I have left cuddle right up and sleep with me, the mama cat comes to my bed a few times a day[1], and Matilda continues to avoid them, but she’s avoiding *fewer* cats, plus she gets super high calorie baby food treats all the time.

The downside to healthy kittens? Active, jumping, playful kittens all the time.

[1] She’s the sweetest, wonderfullest pet cat. How could someone have just dumped her? She barely meows, only snores, doesn’t try desperately to escape, doesn’t claw stuff, just sleeps and cuddles. She loves to be held or to sit on your lap. She sleeps with you! Sure, she got pregnant and had 5 kittens, one of whom keeps deleting my blog posts, but since the owners didn’t neuter her, the pregnant thing is their fault anyhow, and the blog post thing is unpredictable, and who even knows if the earlier owners blogged?