I’m going here for the 2012 Tinker Mountain Writers’ Workshop thanks to the amazing generosity of my boss.
I can’t believe this I’m freaking out adslkfjdsklfjsd
I know you’re not specifically addressing me with this, but I’m so happy for you! It looks great… I mean, besides the obvious, it looks like they have lots of cookies there.
…I hope there’s lots of cookies in my program.
BUT! to those who are interested in such things: looks like I can buy my own cookies~~ Hollins has informed me that they are increasing my grant significantly beyond what I was told for this year, and waiving my full tuition for next year!!!! My prof says it’s a vote of confidence, and I’ve needed it :I All I have to do is scrape together enough money to stay alive. Challenge accepted.
This is a cat in my neighbor hood who likes to sleep on top of fences, face down. She is the most fluffiest largest cat that I have ever met in existence.
I have decided to show the dangerous looking crazy zeal this cat shows today. Today is Tuesday. :E
On March 29, 1996, an old abandoned car dealership in Brooklyn inexplicably burst into flames. Firefighters rushed to the scene to combat the fire […] and one of the firemen noticed a mother cat leaving the building, carrying a kitten in her jaws. She walked it over to a litter of four more, nudged each one and then passed out next to them.
Apparently the mother cat had been raising her litter of five kittens in the abandoned building when it caught fire, and she raced in to save them all. She could carry only one kitten at a time, however, which means she must have made the daring trip into a flaming building at least five times.
When she emerged for the fifth and final time, her ears were burnt, she was scorched on her feet and much of her hair had burned away. Nevertheless, she made sure all her kittens were OK before she lost consciousness. She had to nudge them all to make a head count because her eyes had swollen shut from the flames and intense heat. This means that for some portion of her flaming terror adventure, she couldn’t even see where she was going.
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[via cracked.com] I want to be someone’s mom someday. [/random] I remember hearing about this story at the time, but I didn’t know that the momma cat was blind for some of it… Don’t worry. She lived for 12 years after that spoiled completely rotten by her new owner. 4 out of 5 of the kittens survived also.
A disembodied head who talks about writing a lot circa 2012.
Formerly and still often about teaching English to high school girls [high schoolgirls? maybe not as likely here] in South Korea, and also sometimes pictures of cats, and also occasionally helpful resources. And diversions. Lots of diversions from around the web.
