Tube-rats and Carpetsharks: Living With The Weezulbois

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Friday May 13, 2011 · 12:13 PM PDT

2011/05/13 · 12:13

When reading Kos entries, I always enjoy reading the ones about people's pets. Dogs, cats... more dogs and cats... dogs and cats and the occasional snake or horse... and more cats... more dogs...

Don't get me wrong; I love both of those and have two cats myself. But-- ferrets! Where are the ferrets? Where are my beloved Mustela putorius furo? I currently have four and I've raised them for over twenty years.

Yesterday I was in a PetSmart, buying what I think of as Weasle Rinse, and I overheard a girl and her mother discussing the cute, bouncing hoard of baby ferrets that were doing their damndest to catch their attention. Some of the things they were saying were so blatantly wrong and eye-watering that I decided to write a bit about what it's like to cohabit with ferrets, the good and the bad, just in case any of you out there are thinking of doing just that.

Ysabet

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Wednesday April 13, 2011 · 1:58 PM PDT

2011/04/13 · 13:58

Everybody who's had cancer has their Big C day.

That's when you got the phone call or direct word from your doctor, the one where the test results had come back and they had to tell you that Yes, You Have Cancer. Yes, It's Malignant. Yes, We Have To Do Something Or You Will Die.

Of course, the fact that I'm writing this six years to the day after that occasion tells me that they did the right thing, doesn't it? So I'd like to say thanks.

Ysabet

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Tuesday March 29, 2011 · 1:10 PM PDT

2011/03/29 · 13:10

It's been a year to the day since my mom died.

I'm trying to cope; people say things like 'I'm doing as well as expected, I guess' or 'I'm holding up' and all those little half-lies to make the asker feel better. I mean, if I said 'I'm feeling wretched and I keep having to fight tears and I have a really stupid depressing song stuck in my head and it's not helping', what good would that do? Mama'd be pissed off at me, I'd be pissed off at me, the askers would be uncomfortable and avoidant and.... no.

So let's get busy with the coping, shall we?

Ysabet

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Monday March 21, 2011 · 9:03 AM PDT

2011/03/21 · 09:03

Okay, plain and simple: I do not know or claim to know much about nuclear power. I know the myths and the Chernobyl stories and the things everybody wonders about ('If x-rays are so safe, why does my dental technician push the button from outside the room?'); I should know more, though, in order to understand the things that are going on in Japan right now. And so I went looking.

Ysabet

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Friday March 18, 2011 · 10:07 AM PDT

2011/03/18 · 10:07

(This is my first diary entry here, and it should probably be all political and everything; I know, I know. But no, I just had to do this. sigh It'll be the Spring Equinox day after tomorrow, so.... well. Y'all forgive me, I'll get serious eventually.)

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