More blog musing

So I know one can forward a domain to DW, but I'd like to see it in action. Anyone know of any blogs that are doing this? And, my darling DW geeks (i'm looking at you, piranha & damned_colonial, etc.) is there a DW community where this question would fit? I read the official-comm list and didn't really see an appropriate question-asking space.

Kitty?

[EDIT: someone wonderful has stepped up to help. Thank you all.]

My dear friend inflectionpoint was my neighbor for a while, and is the most cat-loving person I've ever known. She cried when she had to move to a place with existing pets and send her lovely Kitton to a friend's place. She cried a LOT. Well, now the people who were watching the Kitton apparently can't do that any more, and she (the Kitton, not inflectionpoint) needs a temporary home. Can any of you do this? Both my partners are allergic to cats, or I'd do it in a minute.

Please boost this signal as much as you feel comfy doing so. This is a really sweet cat, and a really lovely cat-person.

mactavish and simplykimberly, do you know anyone who might be interested?

More info at http://inflectionpoint.livejournal.com/501139.html

[Edit to add: I can also help with transport, if you are closer to me (Oakland) than to the South Bay.]

Furlough, my ass.

It was pointed out to me yesterday (by a boyfriend who has barely seen me in a month, not that that is narrowing things down any) that I have yet to take a single day off from responsibilities since my furlough began on June 1. Yesterday, I participated in a study at Cal for a few hours; the day before, I had a doctor's appointment; the weekend was full of cooking and hosting; three weeks at my mom's; and so on...

I need to get off the merry-go-round or I'll look around on August 1 and find that I didn't spend a single day of my furlough relaxing.

Relaxing. That sounds really good.

Time to go cancel whichever plans I can. Today, I need to take the teenager to EDD to sign up for their youth job programs, and tomorrow I have a date with stonebender, but I think after that, I need to lie low for a while. Wish me luck.

Wanna see the best email I've gotten in a long time?

Hi Ms. Vannoy,

Below is [sic] your WHOLE BODY SCAN results. This, along with your negative thyroglobulin levels with stimulation, is great news. I have also asked the lab to send a sample to USC to double check. I would recommend you repeat your thyroid labs in 3 months and return in 6 months. ( We can skip to the good part )

Impression:
Whole-body diagnostic iodine scan is negative for metastatic disease.
MYO HAN MD

Pretty spiffy, huh?

Good day

What a nice day we had. The kid and I had planned to go to the Youth Jobs Program thingy (she could go alone, but she has understandable anxiety about going new places on the bus), and when we got downtown, it was lunchtime, so we ate lunch, went and got her an intake appointment, then sat in Peet's for an hour or so having a nice companionable conversation about everything and nothing, while she drew sketches.

Next, we stopped at the Korean grocery store, where she was *fascinated* with the live Dungeness crabs, which were very inexpensive as such things go, so I agreed to buy some for dinner. Since wild_irises was coming over to drop off Costco butter anyway, I decided dinner time would be the perfect time, and she and abostick59 came over and shared our crabs and butter and oven-fried spring rolls and cherries and pistachios and sorbet with us. Lovely dinner, lovely to see our friends again. Very funny and macabre to watch the kid do the actual work of killing crabs for our dinner.

Tonight, we'll work on the kid's application for the jobs program (her appointment is tomorrow), and I'll start playing with my own projects over the next few days:

1) Getting my new blog up and running (more about this later)
2) Getting my poetry chapbook together with the help of some wonderful friends who have offered to read some of my stuff
3) Knitting the rest of someotherguy's Doctor Who scarf

Well, maybe first I'll take a firehose to my house to clean up the utter crab mess. :-)

And speaking of the kid...

...in her quest to be better at marketing herself as an artist, wtfpotatoes has asked me to point y'all to her new DeviantArt account, to which she will be adding even more new stuff (there are 15 things there right now). She does commissions for her fellow WOW people, so some of these are to other people's specs, but they give a decent cross-section of her general styles. If you know of anyone who might want to buy art from her, or if you know of any art-related internships or training programs, or anyone she should hook up with to find out about something related to a career in which she can exercise her love of drawing, please let me know, or email her: joan at the same domain my email address is at.

http://wetpaperbag.deviantart.com/gallery/