OK, first things first: Please say a prayer, mantra, chant over a candle flame, light up some rolls of hundred-dollar bills (isn't that what you lawyers do to win a case?), whatever, for P-kitty's health. She went off her food for three or four days a few weeks ago, not eating and laying around like a little black furry pile of lethargy. We took her to the vet and ran a battery of ridiculously expensive tests that were ultimately useless as they all came back fine. Then she started eating again and seemed OK. Now she's been not eating or eating very little for the last several days. I don't know what this is about, but I know this needs to stop. Any of you who know Paola know that this is NOT a cat that goes off her food. And, unlike other animals -- dogs, etc. -- if a cat is acting funny it's probably a big deal because they have a very high pain tolerance (like redheads). She's nine years old -- apparently this qualifies her as a senior cat. I am not having any of this kitty mortality crap, so do whatever you need to do.
Second, white Jesus really needs to back the hell up. Yesterday I read a lo-o-ong article by my white Jesus law professor -- so named because at one point he stood in front of class, spread his arms out wide, lowered his head and said, unjokingly, "I can't leave -- (Elite Ivy League Institution) needs me." Not that he needed that half-million dollar salary, he's just sacrificing his desire to go out there and be a social worker in order to be where he's needed, teaching a bunch of mostly legacies or rich kids how to be even richer. It's rough, but he's just a giver. This goes back to A.'s comment on academic gurus from the other day -- this guy has a huge following as a guru (which I totally admit to being a part of, when I'm not ripping on him as a dilettante). And of course, what annoys me the most is that when he thanked our section -- by number -- in the preface to his article he didn't even remember our name, the name he insisted we take as a sign of rebellion against the institutional numbering. Whatever. Then I got to watch white Jesus on "Lost" get strapped to a table like a grungy, shirtless, naughty saviour and sacrifice himself for others. I can't deal with all this faux-selflessness. It's making me grumpy this morning. I need to see some people openly acknowledging the greed and shallowness and selfishness at the root of their choices and actions. I'm going to go read the Wall Street Journal.
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Good plan. Can't go wrong with the WSJ. Have you heard about the new movie with the black Jesus? What's wrong with just making him look like a Middle Eastern (or perhaps Southwest Asian?) Jew? bah.
Paola - my mom's cat Lyla had similar problems, randomly eating, not eating. We blamed it on my dad's illness. She did this for about a year before my mom took her into the vet, and apparently she had bad kidneys. I don't know if that's one of the tests they did, but cats often get these problems (my mom's cat was 11). You might want to check that out. Good luck, and I'll light a candle in my head since all my candle are currently packed and I haven't got the money to buy more. :)
Uh, Sawyer is white Jesus? He's like, the least Jesus-y guy ever, though.
Damn, I'm seeing white Jesuses everywhere again! It's just the irritating motif of the guy with long (usually blond) hair and his arms stretched out being tortured for the good of humanity/someone else/law students/whatever. See also, Mel Gibson in Braveheart. I liked Sawyer and Kate better when they were the anti-Jesuses to Jack and Locke's boring saviour complexes. Now they're both so mushy. Or I'm just really grouchy today.
Oh, yeah, and the vet said the same thing, so we did run the kidney test, came back normal as well. Of course, it might still be that, but in order to catch it in time to do something we'd have to run hundreds of dollars of tests every single month until it maybe finally registers and they can medicate her. Or it could be something else entirely. I need to go hang out with some rabbits or puppies or four-year-olds or something uplifting today, or my students' midterms are going to get some serious wrath.
Oh, I'm so sorry to hear Paolo! I don't know about this "praying" thing, but I will keep all fingers and toes cross that she get better soon!
And LOL re white Jesus. Ahhh, the good old days. If it helps at all, I readily admit to being greedy, shallow, and selfish. =)
See, this is why I love lawyers. Very little pretense on this topic. Whereas academics, we tell ourselves LOTS of stories about the work we do.
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