8 posts tagged “cats”

Here are some pictures of my cat Bailey. I feel like I never take any pictures of her.

I just came back from spending money at the mall. I have to stop spending so much money! I have a car bill to pay that isn't going to be cheap so I really need to save....but I couldn't help myself from buying two outfits for this weekend's parties and a new pair of sandals (they were on sale!). Here's what I got:

And here's just a picture of my kitties snuggling when it is way too hot in my house to be snuggling together

I came home from the mall and found all three cats asleep on my bed. This is such a rarity that I had to take a picture.

I came home from school and found Jack hiding underneath this map. It's like he thinks that no one can see him when clearly there is a huge bump from his body. Silly cat.

If you look in the background of the last picture you can see my other cat getting ready to pounce on Jack. Obviously his hiding spot was not a very good one.

Today turned out to be a nice and enjoyable day! Much better than I thought it was going to be. I was very happy to find out that I got to get out of work earlier than normal. So after I got out of work I changed into my bathing suit and sat out back and soaked up the sun with my cat Buddy (for some reason he always hovers around you when you are outside in his "domain"). I took these pictures of him

When I was reading Spook by Mary Roach I came across this quote which I thought was really interesting.

"I once interviewed a geologist who searches for meteorites on empty, wind-battered ice fields in Antarctica, where the snow is whipped into knee-high white swirls. He sometimes gives talks and slide shows of his travels to the public. Most people tell him they can't imagine spending months at a time in such a cold, barren locale. One night a quiet older woman came up to him as he was putting away his slides and said, 'You've been to heaven.'"

This quote struck me as being so beautiful though it seems so plain. Maybe it's because I can relate. Sometimes I would give anything to be alone in a desolate place (though not Antarctica, it's not that I don't think it is beautiful because it is, but its just way too cold). I am such a loner and am usually happy that way. When I read this I was like "yea that's what I want my heaven to be, finally being by myself." But then I got sad and realized that is such a lonely way to be for the rest of eternity (if there is a heaven). I should want to be up there in heaven with all of my deceased relatives and friends and all of the people I love. I shouldn't want to be alone in the middle of nowhere. If I read this two years ago I would have thought the same thing but not the part about knowing it is sad and depressing to be alone all of the time. I actually made strides to get over my "social anxiety". Yay! But at the same time, it is still there as strong as ever. This made me realize it and take notice of it.

I finished the book in like a week. It was quick read with witty remarks and humor in all of the pages. I didn't like it as much as Mary Roach's other book Stiff but it was still good. I thought she was going to go more into what possibly happens after you die and the scientific proof we have of it (which she does in the last chapter or so). Instead she spends the whole novel debunking mediums and people like that and the history of mediums. Personally, I would have found it way more interesting if she spent the whole novel talking about Near Death Experiences than the medium stuff. But it still makes you think about if there is life after death and if there is, is it in ghost form?

 
The book touched on some things that I know my aunt, who is a writer, is writing about in a new book. My aunt Stacy Horn, is currently writing a book on the scientists that created the Duke lab for parapsychology, and the experiments and results that came out of it. I am really looking forward to reading it. It sounds so interesting to me.

My aunt and I share a lot of the same interests, such as in cats, blogging, death, murders (especially unsolved ones), and interesting science things that are considered taboo. If you click on her name, you will be linked to her blog. My aunt is a really cool person who founded one of the first blog sites called Echo before blogging became popular. She has also written three books, which are pictured below. It was really cool/weird to see The Restless Sleep displayed in Barns and Noble on one of the tables in the middle for months! Check it out if you are interested in unsolved murders and what happens with them and all of that kind of thing.

I finally got to make my schedule for next semester. I'm kinda ticked that I couldn't take Physics (to get it over with) and that BIO 202 didn't fit in my schedule. Oh well that's what the semester after it is for. For anyone who is interested this is my schedule:

AAS 394  49108

Topics in Asian Art

12:50-2:10 Tues, Thursday

ARH 102 42214 Lecture/ 42217 Recitation

Art in Culture 1400 to Postmod

11:45-12:40 Mon, Wed, Fri

CHE 132 41777 Lecture

Gen Chem II

10:40-12:35 Mon, Wed, Fri

CHE 132 41780 Recitation

Gen Chem II

11:20-12:40 Thursday

CHE 134 41796 Lecture

Chem Lab II

12:50-2:10 Mon

CHE 134 46891 Lab

Chem Lab II

1:55-4:55 Wed.

MAT 126 41230 Lecture

Calculus B

2:20-3:40 Tues, Thurs

MAT 126 49897

Calculus B Recitation

11:20-12:15 Tues

PHI 104 40981

Moral Reasoning

3:50-5:10 Tues, Thursday

All in all I'm not too disappointed with what I chose. I'm kind of dreading the two art classes I chose but I have to take them so I can graduate. Hopefully they won't be too boring.
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Today was insane on campus. The school basketball team was playing a game against Villanova and apparently over 4000 people were coming to watch the game. So we all got an email saying you can park in the stadium lot (which I PAY to park in) or the garage will be open. So I try to get in the stadium lot, but nooooooooo they won't let anyone in and we all sit in traffic for ten minutes. I figure whatever I'll go to the far-away south p lot since that really was my only option since the garage looked closed. I had to stand for the EXPRESS bus for ten minutes. Then I get on the bus and am stuck in traffic for over twenty minutes. Why?! because a water pipe burst in the west apartments and everyone had to go around. It was a nightmare. Especially since I had a test, which I ended up being ten minutes late to, even though I left my house 40 mins before I needed to. Super! I was pissed needless to say.

At least my cat made me crack up. Here's a pic of Jack drinking out of my little fountain thing I have in my room. I don't understand why he chooses to drink this nasty slimy water when there is a bowl of water right on the floor under it. Cats!

And here's Jack in another compromising position. He sleeps like this all the time. It's hysterical.

Don't you hate it when you wake up too early and you want to go back to sleep but you can't even though you are still tired? Yea, that's what happened to me this morning. I was awoken at six by my cat Buddy meowing like a banshee because he wanted to go downstairs to eat/drink/poop or something so of course I had to because one time I neglected to listen to his meows he crapped on my bed next to my face kind of like an "eff you, you don't listen to me meowing" and then I stuck my hand in his crap. Needless to say that day didn't start off to well either. But luckily that didn't happen today. Instead I just woke up and couldn't get back to sleep and I know I am going to be exhausted all day because I have to be at school all day :( oh well.