Current mood:	busy
Entry tags:	fostering, hubris

Favorite quote from my LJ post dated 10/31/2004:
"Terrifying things, steel things, metal things, things with cylindrical bodies and multitudinous jointed limbs. Things without flesh and blood. Things that were made of metal and plastic and transistors and relays, and wires. Metal things. Metal things that could think. Thinking metal things. Terrifying in their strangeness, in their peculiar metal efficiency. Things the like of which had never been seen on the earth before. Things that were sliding back panels...Robots! Robots were marching..."
("Curiosities", F&SF, Oct/Nov 2004)

I'm still intermittently going over and annotating old LJ entries. It started as a quick skim-through to make sure I wasn't saying anything offensive to prospective employers, but I think I've only had to edit one or two entries for content, and iirc those were to remove mean comments about specific professors. All I'm really finding is a late high school/college student baring 90% of her real life to the world, ups and downs and cussing and rants and all, which is pretty much what I was going for.

Yesterday I slept until noon, ate breakfast, slept until four-thirty, read some newspapers, and went over to Alex's to help George H. move in. Due to Friday rush hour I didn't get there until they'd already moved everything, so there was nothing for it but to pass out on Alex's couch for two hours until he, George, George's brother and I could go to Sweetwater for dinner. Mmmm. And then go home and sleep some more.

Today (feeling much refreshed) I moved the old beat-up dresser downstairs to the recycling area, figuring that if nobody wanted it the trash guys might at least haul it away tomorrow - but it was gone in an hour, so I guess I have plenty of kindred spirits in the building.

Picked up a free toaster thanks to Freecycle and hit three nearby garage sales on the way back. The haul: 1 toaster, 2 stove range covers, 1 copy of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, 4 plastic food containers that fit nicely in my lunchbox, and a bathroom scale. The damage: $8.50 + negligible gas. The range covers are a real find, because now I can use the stove as a counter surface to make up for the fact that my counter is about the size of a dinner plate.

The only real goals for the rest of the day are to 1) assemble my headboard and bolt it onto the bed without injuring myself, and 2) do my first volunteer stint at the Alexandria Petco. There are two large cages in the store that I believe currently contain three cats, one of which may have been already adopted & replaced since I was trained on Tuesday. What I do is take them out and let them run loose in the empty "Doggy Daycare" room to one side of the store, then clean their cages, replace their food and water, and play with them. Not exactly a hardship here. I'm looking forward to it.

Also, a random Petco customer mentioned that they'd noticed a number of stray/feral cats behind the bowling alley two stores down, so I'm going to go over there and see if anyone's managing a feral colony there. If they aren't, I may have just taken on a Project. I need to retrieve my kitten trap from Alex's closet at some point.