What Time Is It, Anyway?

[copied from dland]

I have no idea. The one thing I can tell you is that I have got one bad smelling cat here -- what have we been feeding him? -- and I just realized that I can't take him to the groomers until I remember to take him for his rabies shot. Eeuw. He needs a bath a week, but he sure ain't getting it from me.

Sorry, brain fart. It's hard to ignore a stinky cat.

In other news, or actual news, as the case may be, R had a good first day at work at her new job. She said she was only in her own department briefly, as she spent most of the day in various orientation sessions, but her department did throw a little welcome party for her with donuts and such. So it looks like very nice people she's working with, and she has a cool official email address and the like. She is working, btw, for a big television station in New York. Very excellent.

As for the moment, they've started showing Enterprise on the SciFi channel, and since it's the only Star Trek series I never stuck with, I thought I'd give it a shot. The second episode just started, and I'm already bored. Maybe because I watched this far when it was first on, I don't know. I love Star Trek, and always liked Scott Bakula (big Quantum Leap fan as well), but this series just never grabbed me. It's going to be on for three hours every Monday night, I think. Let's see how far I get. For now, I'm thinking I'd rather watch Supernanny at 9:00.

Here's something you don't hear often from me: I've been sleeping very well the last few nights. I still wake up every two to three hours, but I've had no trouble falling asleep or getting back to sleep or even sleeping later in the morning on Saturday and Sunday. Funny, I tried that new program that generates music-tracks-to-fall-asleep-to for that nap on Saturday, but I haven't even had a chance to use it since then since I've just been sleeping like a regular human being. Maybe I should buy sleep aids more often.

Speaking of not knowing what time it is, it just occurred to me that the cat groomer, who is in a nearby PetSmart, is still open since it's not even 9:00 yet, and I called and made an appointment for Monday. Monday is Martin Luther King Day, and public schools are generally closed, as they ought to be, and as all public offices are, but my school district does not close. Why? Seriously, god only knows. Is it because they think there aren't "enough" African-American kids in the district? That appears to be the reason, which makes it more inappropriate. It may not be; we don't close for Columbus Day either and we certainly have a hefty population of Italian-Americans, but Columbus Day is not the same level of holiday as MLK Day. Banks and post offices do not close for Columbus as they do for Dr. King. Anyway, what my school district is doing is having a half-day for kids and an in-service afternoon for staff. Gag.Me.With.A.Spoon. So I'm getting a haircut at 1:00, and now, so is smelly Boo. An efficient use of a day, I believe. Which also means I've got to get him to the vet one day after school this week for that shot.

Speaking of days off, we have a four-day period for midterms at the end of the month, which means half-days for the kids, and I'm going to take one of those afternoons off and go see my new doctor for the first visit, for a physical. (And going to get my new driver's license before that.) It's so long since I've been to a new internist that the last time, I had no chronic ailments of any kind. Now, I don't even know where to start. I'm afraid if I give her my medical history and start reeling things off, she'll run screaming from the room. ("So, doctor, I had this brain tumor, and genetics say that I'm an excellent candidate for a heart attack or a stroke or maybe breast cancer, and by the way, I spend half my day in the bathroom. Anything you can do for me?") I'd run if I could.

Hey, I wore the socks that R made me for Christmas today!

See what I mean about my foot being round?

Okay, it doesn't look so round, but that's actually the ribbing and the seams in the sock. I was going to take a picture of my newly pedi-ed feet, just for boxx, but after a whole day on them and by lamp-light, they don't look so lovely anymore! Looked a bit too much like Shirl's feet, and let me tell you, that woman had some heinous feet. (My feet are really nothing at all like hers, which were a long-standing - heh - family joke. I do, however, have her double-chin and no ass. Ah, there's those pesky genetics again.)

I have no idea whatsoever as to what's happening on Enterprise except that Scott Bakula is still cute, I still don't like the Vulcan, and all the other characters are interchangeable. I never watched Voyager to the end, either; I liked it a lot, but when that Seven character took over the show, I bailed. Could not stand her. Can't watch Jeri Ryan in anything else, either. So that's my bit of personal Star Trek trivia for the day.

Well, at least I'm getting better at writing a lot about nothing.


WATCHING ENTERPRISE :: ENTRY #1342