A Book and a Veterinary Visit

[queerbychoice]

ciarajanae bought me a book! She told me she didn't have money to buy me anything in return for the book I sent her (Amy Bloom's A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You), but then she bought me a book anyway! She bought me Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami. I am excited.

Today I took Stardust to the vet and they poked needles in her, and now she's immune to rabies and feline distemper! And they told me she weighs exactly six pounds now. When I first got her, they told me she weighed exactly two pounds. I now have three times as much cat as I originally paid for!

My parents used to have a cat named Daisy who lived to be 16 years old and never weighed more than about six pounds (and was mistaken for a kitten even after she was long since full-grown). Stardust has now already established that she is not going to be a midget like Daisy when she finishes growing up. I'm going to have a fully cat-sized cat in a few more months!

I looked away when the vet stuck the needle in her, and the vet immediately said to me, "You don't like shots, do you?"

"No," I said.

"Yeah, some people don't," he said. As though the idea of not enjoying having needles poked through one's skin was a really strange quirk of a tiny minority of people. Though considering what a vast majority of people volunteer to get piercings and tattoos, I guess maybe it actually is.

I gave Stardust canned kitten food when we came back home, to make it up to her. She seems to consider this a fair exchange.

In unrelated news, kethylia recently posted a link to one creepy man's rant in the Daily Mail about the supposed evils of feminism, and . . . wow. The train wreck just gets worse and worse with each successive sentence he writes . . . every time you think he can't possibly get any creepier than he's already gotten, he manages it. And then at the end of the article, 76 people have left comments and practically all of them say that he didn't start coming across as creepy to them until right near the end of the article! These people desperately need their creepiness-detectors adjusted. I thought my creepiness-detector was bad, but mine functions way better than theirs do.

Comments

[lm.livejournal.com]

Hmm, in my experience, a lot of people who get piercings and tattoos don't like injections. I know I don't. For me there's a distinct difference between being jabbed with a needle and having something injected into you in a medical setting.

[afro76.livejournal.com]

I've just finished Kafka on the shore. I really enjoyed it (apart from the section on cat-torture, which is mercifully short and can be skim-read) and hope you do too. Have you read anything else by Murakami?

[dzuunmod.livejournal.com]

I don't like having things jabbed into me, but I like the results when it comes to body modifications, and I think that generally, they're worth it.

[sammka.livejournal.com]

I have no significant body modifications, but I also don't particularly mind gettings shots. Or rather, I never did until rather recently, when the nerses or assistants or whatever started having serious trouble finding my veins and started having to jab me several times and wiggle the needle around (sorry for that image).

[queerbychoice.livejournal.com]

Yes, I've read nearly everything by him.

[rhekarid.livejournal.com]

I think it's that when someone gets a piercing, they WANT it. A shot is almost never something you want to get, painful or not. Plus the doctor might have thought it odd because you were flinching from someone else's shot. Who knows.

My creepiness detectors went off at the title of the article. He had some points - "take it back and get me a bigger diamond" isn't something that anyone should have to put up with, man or not - but he was clearly an imbecile.

[yareach.livejournal.com]

I didn't finish reading it. It was making me want to reach through the computer and thwap him. I assume I didn't miss much.

And I hope there'll be more kitten picture soon; those are always lovely. :)

[frankepi.livejournal.com]

i almost sent you Kafka on the Shore today. glad i read this first.

(thanks for the book, by the way. it was waiting for me at my new apartment. still getting settled in but things are going just fine so far.)

[queerbychoice.livejournal.com]

Actually, I think you did miss much, though it's understandable if you prefer to miss the transition from merely wanting to thwap him to wanting to inflict advanced Medieval torture techniques on him.

I'm hoping to take more kitten pictures this weekend, in which case there'll be more very soon!

[ciarajanae.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you're happy! Thanks again for the Bloom. :)