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Sunday, 11:27 pm in Life

It was another fine catday today, so we all piled into the car and drove out to Weston to see Vesper and Crazy Cat Lady Number One.

So this is Vespertine, the chocolate tortie and older half-sister to Eli.

Both breeders had a version of thing thing; it’s like a little velodrome for a ball/mouse/object and you kind of push it around and the kittens go berserk trying to bat at it through the holes in the ring. V’s little sister – the blue tortie in the background – was totally hyper; she fell off the bed a few times back flipping trying to ‘get’ the raggedly little mouse. I caught her all but once. V wasn’t as interested, but she came over to have a look anyway; she’s very small and quiet compared to her three siblings, but she’s not sickly. Just introverted.

Here she is again with her blue brother; the poor this is destined to be a cattery tom because the breeder wants more blues. (The other sibling is the lilac boy whose arse you can see in the background of the previous picture.) V, on the other hand, is coming home next weekend. We were going to leave her with the breeder to get used to her half-brother then taken them both home at the same time, but the breeder is kind of keen for us to take her before Christmas. I guess it’s a lot of work looking after ten thousand cats; one less is probably a small blessing. So next week will be  a scramble around cleaning out the cat things and buying food and litter and pieces of string. I also need to clean up my study a bit; get rid of all the stacks of books all over the floor. Stacks of books plus little kittens who like to jump equals potential disaster, so I’ll start filling the set of shelves I bought back from uni.

The breeder suggested to us while we were there that she might like to show our cats. We’re not particularly interested in doing it ourselves (it’s a lot of hassle and bitchy pointlessness), but if she wants to come get them every now and again to put in shows… whatever. So Vesper is now called ‘Aegir mi Vespertine’ – aegir being the name of the cattery, and yes I thought it was portentous too – but we’re not sure about Eli. I’ll have to go trawling through my Nordic name-lists o find something that sounds good with both ‘Aegir’ and ‘Eli’. Maybe I should ask over at norse_mythology. Ásatrú get so hilariously uppity when you name your pets after them. Or suggest that, no really, they’re not actually having astral sex with Loki and have they considered the possibility of medication? Okay, that’s the lokeans, and them and the Ásatrú get on about as well as two positively charged ions, but you’ll excuse me if I find it hilarious riling up a bunch of chicks who are supposedly ‘worshipping’ an incarnation of iconoclasm.

I was talking about something there… I forgot.

Anyway, next week is also graduation. I really, honestly can’t bring myself to care; all it means to me is that it’s over and I survived. Plus it will ‘cement’ my grad job, and that’s it.

Finally got to go to ZG today, too, mostly by leaving myself in Grom’Gol instead of Org and disabling a few mods in the hope to prevent WoW crashing on load. It worked. We took down the raptor boss today; first try, one wipe. That was really good, considering we beat the bat lady yesterday. So that’s three bosses down. I also got my first piece of Phat Lewt; [Zanzil's Seal] to replace the old ring I’ve had since Uldaman. It was way not worth the 100 DKP I spent on it, but it was always going to just be ‘one of those things’ that people were going to bid the max on, so it was either 100 or nothing. It was a three-way-tie at 100, and I happened to win the roll; go me. I also got a [Traveller’s Backpack] when we divvied up the junk greens, which means I only need one more 16-slotter.

Today was also my first day as Master Looter and Auctionwhore. That was… interesting. Hard work, and confusing (I’m glad Kale did all the official recording at the DKP site), but we had a massive auction off of Bijou and a few coin sets that had been banking up in the, erm, bank so hopefully it won’t be as long next week. I still need to remember to mail poor ol’ Ato his coin set. And I need a better system for scribbling down who bid on what, too.

The Schools’ Spectacular was televised tonight. For those not in-the-know, the ‘Spec’ is the largest stage concert thingo in the world. Every state primary and high school in New South Wales enters kids into this huge song and dancing thingo and they come on and, well, sing and dance. And play instruments and shit like that. International readers may remember boy band Human Nature; they first appeared on the Spec. Rolf Harris (the “tie me kangaroo down” wobble board guy) is also involved, and the composer guy from Australian Idol (prestigious!) is the MC and ex-alumni. It’s part of this musical talent development project thing that goes on in NSW state schools, but asides from the ‘star’ acts it has like 3,000 other kinds in it as well; in the band, the choir and the dancers. It’s this piece of mind-numbing logistics; each school gets sent the stuff they will have to perform and the costumes they will have to make, then in December they throw kids on busses, ship them into Sydney, rehearse this thing once as a group and then bang, it’s on. It’s like the Olympic opening ceremony, except with no money and it gets preformed every year.

Anyway, it’s fun to watch and have militant public school pride over (every now and again the private schools ask if they can be included and the organisers tell them to get lost). Though this year I thought was a bit lacklustre compared to previous years. I dunno, may I just didn’t like the compositions this year, or didn’t think the singing talent was as strong. Something. Oh well, it was still pretty cool.

Cool like Repo Man. If you’ve never seen this movie, do so right now. No, right now; I’m sure you can find an open Blockbuster or torrent or something. Get to it. That’s good.

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