Peony isn’t so pitiful
Sidewalk kitty is feeling much better today. Her eyes don’t feel so raw anymore, and there’s no more goop coming out of them. She’s a big fan of antibiotics now. Even better, she’s going to have a permanent home! The …
Month: May 2004
Introducing Pitiful Peony the Sidewalk Kitty
Peony had a very good visit to the vet yesterday. The doctor said that apart from the obvious upper respiratory infection, she’s actually remarkably healthy. She’s five weeks old and 1.5 lb. She tested negative for FIV and feline leukemia. …
Attention New Yorkers
Anyone want to adopt a kitten? Walking home from the train this evening, I came across a VERY young kitten. Clearly a stray. Well, either a stray or belonging to someone who deserved to have their cat taken away. By …
quick post on the way out the door
I’m off to that old school. (Bard. My undergrad alma mater. Bad reference to a Steely Dan song about said school. Sorry.) It’s graduation weekend and there’s going to be a memorial service for a favorite professor who died this …
Time Regained
“In reality every reader is, while he is reading, the reader of his own self. The writer’s work is merely a kind of optical instrument which he offers to the reader to enable him to discern what, without this book, …
I’ve been holding out on you…
Just when you thought you’d seen the last of Rachael and Bethany’s great East Coast adventure… Here’s one last picture of their visit to Brooklyn. I’d forgotten I had this one. It’s Diego trying to seduce Bethany. Sadly, it didn’t …
Evidence of (mindless) knitting
I’ve managed to get a small bit of knitting done in the last few weeks. Finally, here’s some photographic evidence: The baby sweater I’ve been making for my friends’ daughter is half-seamed now. It’s wanted only finishing for weeks, so …