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[Heidi]

I feel like I'm NEVER gonna get out of the office. I've been working on a mess of invoices that were sent to the wrong address (we just moved into a new building - apparently this has been happening all over the campus) all day long.

[Sarah]

Just tell yourself that RA's wife may have hidden candy at the bottom of the pile of invoices.

[Heidi]

Oh, I wish! That would be super. :)

[RandomAnthony]

She might have. She's good that way.

A bunch of wild turkeys just ran through the field behind my house. Those suckers are big.

[Sarah]

That would have scared the crap out of me.

[Heidi]

Is it too early to get a Thanksgiving turkey?

[RandomAnthony]

Heh. They are kind of scary, Sarah and Heidi. My six year old wanted to shoot them for meat. Apparently he mistook me for someone who does that sort of thing.

[Cosmic Sher]

RA, but you're the DAD. All that manly, hunting, neandertalness goes with the job description! :D

Right now I am enduring a baaaad toothache and being miserable and too chicken to set up an appointment with the dentist. Those people scare the bajeezees outta me.

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I just walked barefoot in my backyard, not bad for a day in March in Wisconsin.

[Félix]

Say it ain't so, Kate.

[Félix]

Oh. OK. Enjoy! :)

[[deleted user]]

I just got an av from TAM, some maple leaves that she drew, I should probably put it up.

[Félix]

Oh good. Your new ones are always fun.

[Félix]

I love it.

[Félix]

I already knew he was real. He's even on Goodreads now.

[Félix]

Amen.

[Félix]

I'm in a hotel room in Denver. (Across the street from the Castle, Sally).

[Sally, la reina]

Hurrah! Go to Las Delicias!

[Félix]

Yes! Thanks for reminding me.

[Félix]

Sally wrote: "Hurrah! Go to Las Delicias!"

I did! It was excellent! Thanks again.

[Sally, la reina]

Did you? What did you have? Wasn't the service amazingly speedy?

[Félix]

Enchaladas. Very tasty -- yes, great service. Nice place. I will go back for sure.

[Sarah]

I was about to walk into the bathroom when a girl passed by talking about the fact that she may have pink eye -- and went into the bathroom.
Now I don't want to go in there because it has cooties.

[RandomAnthony]

Are there other bathrooms around, Sarah? You always need an alternate.

I could write a guide to the campus bathrooms. Maybe I will.

[Kevin]

where did she put her eye?

[Sarah]

Well, if I knew where she put her eye, I wouldn't go there. But I'm equally concerned about eyes and hands that have touched eyes and then touched doorknobs.

[Nuri]

Guide to campus bathrooms! One of the most valuable welcome-week-we-are-bribing-you-to-join-our-club-please pamphlets I received as a first year included a comprehensive and indispensable guide to campus bathrooms, male and female -- which ones are clean or quiet, which ones always have toilet paper, which ones you should avoid at all costs, which one has the best view. It has made my life that much nicer. And I ended up joining their club for a year, at least. ^^;

[Félix]

Watching Lost.

[RandomAnthony]

Right now I wish something, particularly a coffee shop, was open in small town Wisconsin past 9PM.

[Nuri]

I am at the library, and I will be until it closes at 2am. Spring break, you are taking your sweet time getting here. : (

[Sarah]

Right now I'm wondering if my essay will get marked down for not going all the way to the bottom of the second page (it's supposed to be a 2-pager). I'm also hoping that I get a good grade on it since it is half BS and half opinion. And LOTS of quotations (teachers like 'em because they are specific exampled to back up the paper's claim. Students like 'em because they pad the essay).

[Knarik]

i am watching Lost, and writing here during the breaks.

[Nuri]

I was really dreading this paper until I realized how much it has to do with testicles and castration. Thanks to caffeine and sleep-deprivation, I am having all sorts of fun, making up words like "detesticulated," as I bang out this essay about a 13th-century masterpiece-epic-poem thing which is basically a satire revolving around the most elaborate wet dream of all time. So much heavy-handed innuendo. It's truly fabulous.

[Kevin]

there is a small town big town thing RA - you can't get a cup of coffee at 9pm and Nools can check out a copy of One Fish, Two Fish at 2am

[RandomAnthony]

I was really dreading this paper until I realized how much it has to do with testicles and castration.

And good morning!

:)

Yeah, Kevin, you're right...I don't blame the businesses for closing early here, but I hate it.

Right now I'm on the couch with my sons, who are watching some show about military planes. They're into airplane video games lately so they've caught on to military history.

I think I'm going computer free most of the day...have a good one, everyone:)

[Heidi]

I'm counting down the time until my vet's office opens. I was up all night with Robby and am very concerned about him.

[Sarah]

What's the matter?

[Sally, la reina]

A man sneezed on my tray yesterday as I walked by him at the airport food court.

[Dan]

Sally wrote: "A man sneezed on my tray yesterday as I walked by him at the airport food court. "

That's a hell-worthy offense in my book.

[Sally, la reina]

I resisted the urge to throw the tray at him.

[Heidi]

(*** GRAPHIC - DON'T READ IF YOU'RE EASILY GROSSED OUT ***)

Ummm, okay, apologizing up front for the graphic post... I noticed a patch on his hind quarter on Monday that he'd chewed on until he pulled all the fur out. I cleaned it, treated it, and I've been watching him since - he started chewing on the other side yesterday. And last night I was up with him until 1ish (he's been whimpering on and off... and I've been trying to keep him from biting or licking it anymore)... and woken at 4 - he had gotten on my bed and couldn't seem to get comfortable - when I turned on the light, I noticed several blood stains on my comforter. I picked him up and brought him into the dressing area so I could look at it under bright lights - his anus was distended and red... and bleeding and had what looked like pus oozing out from it (again, my apologies for being so graphic) - it freaked me out. I called the emergency clinic at 4:30ish. They seem to think he's got an anal gland infection. I'm still waiting to hear from them. Poor baby, he seems so miserable.

He hasn't had much energy lately, won't eat much, and seems to have trouble getting comfortable. It all came on rather quickly. He seemed fine over the weekend - he was playful and affectionate. I gave him a bath on Monday night, and that was when I first noticed the start of a bald spot on his backside. It must've been itching or bothering him for a while. I cleaned it and treated it with an antibiotic. It's only been since Tuesday that he's been acting like he's not feeling well. At first, I thought he was still mad at me for bathing him (he ABHORS baths... and loves getting dried and groomed and brushed afterwards) on Monday. He does that. He'll give me "the silent treatment/cold shoulder" when I bathe him or take him to the vet and then a few days later, he gets over it. He didn't ever get over it this time.

[RandomAnthony]

Now that is an infection I would not want, thank you very much.

Hope he's ok, Heidi...

[Jackie "the Librarian"]

Poor Robby! I hope he gets fixed up and feels better quickly.
Hugs, Heidi.

[Sarah]

Our dog gets anal gland infections or impactions all the time if we're not careful. We have to get him squeezed every 6-8 weeks. It's expensive, but worth having someone else do so he doesn't associate it with us - I'm not squeamish, but that falls under the list of things I'd rather pay for than do myself.

[RandomAnthony]

We have to get him squeezed every 6-8 weeks.

Uh...is that what I think it is?

[Jackie "the Librarian"]

SO glad I have cats...

Sorry, Heidi!

[Sarah]

Pretty much. They call it "expressing" the glands. No fun for any party involved.

[Heidi]

Thanks guys! I hope he's okay, too. And I'm hoping that's all it is (still haven't heard back from the vet yet) - I've been having hellish thoughts about "what if I have to put him to sleep?" I know people do it all the time for their animals, and it's just a fact of life... I've never had to do it, though. And I just talked to my stepmom yesterday - she thinks the 17 year old family dog needs to be put to sleep (she's had a stroke, is blind, deaf, arthritic, incontinent, has a sore hip, ear infections), but can't bring herself to do it. My brother and I have both offered to go with her to the vet's office for moral support (and so we could say goodbye, too).

I don't think I could handle putting two dogs (who are like family and who I love dearly) down in the same week.

[Lori]

Oh no Heidi! Let us know as soon as you hear from the vet.

Like Sarah I had a dog who needed to be "expressed" every 6 months, just on schedule. The vet offered to teach me how to do it, and I said, no thank you! The stuff STINKS when it comes out.

Heidi, I'm thinking Robby should be OK - the infection wasn't there for that long. Keeping my fingers crossed for you.

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Fingers crossed here too Heidi, sending forth positive thoughts in a southern direction.