Gayle Madwin ([info]queerbychoice) wrote,
@ 2008-03-26 08:31:00
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Current mood: anticipatory
Current music:a car engine outside

Camping!
Susan and I are leaving today and returning Saturday from a camping trip on the coast with the geology class we signed up for together. It should be fun. I'll take lots of pictures. We're taking my car, because she's not ready to buy a new pickup truck yet, and we're returning her rental car today.

The mean convict fish in her fish tank have now killed the smaller (previously mutilated) male and the smaller female of their own species. The only life forms left in the tank are the larger male, the larger female, a plecostomus, and a snail. I wonder whether, when we get back, the remaining convict fish will have killed each other off, had babies together, or both.


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[info]electronblue
2008-03-26 07:47 pm UTC (link)
Uhm, I think it might be time to separate those fish...

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[info]queerbychoice
2008-03-29 11:05 pm UTC (link)
We can't! There's no place to separate them to. They can only survive in big filtered fish tanks, not cheap fish bowls, and Susan can't afford to buy a second tank. And I don't want to buy a tank to adopt those mean things!

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What coast?
[info]jeremytblack
2008-03-27 06:51 am UTC (link)
I just started reading your journal recently, so I'm not up to date, but I enjoy your wit, and I'm deeply, deeply concerned about your fish.

I loved my geology class in college, and I loved my geology class trips. I still remember taking my two nephews, ages 6 and 4, along with me one day. While our TA was giving a talk about a pile of rocks, my 6 year old nephew climbed it behind him and then LEAPED off into the air and I LEAPED forward past my TA and caught him mid-air. This all happened in front of the entire class.

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Re: What coast?
[info]queerbychoice
2008-03-29 09:54 pm UTC (link)
The Pacific Coast. Point Reyes and Bodega Bay.

Welcome to my journal! I just added you back. I hope your terrorist cat doesn't harm you. My cat wishes she could hold me hostage like that, but unfortunately for her, she's been overdomesticated to the point of ridiculousness and as a result isn't even capable of terrorizing the tiniest little bug.

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Re: What coast?
[info]jeremytblack
2008-03-30 03:38 am UTC (link)
Oh, is the Russian River near there? I looked it up on mapquest, and it's near Santa Rosa, right? I recall driving along the Russian River to the coast, and I thought it was from Santa Rosa, but could be completely wrong. I recall that I thought that area was beautiful.

My terrorist cat is the toughest, meanest, most vicious kitty in the world at times, and the rest of the time he is my big loveable baby. However, if I'm walking around my apartment in shorts, and he sees my calves, something just overtakes him and he attacks. Or sometimes he just leaps and attacks my arm. When he does this (which used to be 2-3 times a day, but is now down to 1 time per day or every other day) he becomes completely wild and I have to carry him to the spray water bottle and spray him with that. I can't have anyone over for fear he'll go for the back of their neck. Therefore I'm celebate-by-choice-of-my-terrorist-cat.

He was a starving orphan with bones in his bowels, paint gun paint all over his body, and three different diseases when I found him. This was right before Christmas 2004. I was a teacher and he came to me on my first day of winter break. He stayed attached to my chest that entire time, except when I went away for Christmas Day. He nearly died from a lung infection, had scabies, and an eye infection, as well as required eye surgery. Very expensive.

But this made him bond to me so even though he's now the size of a small island nation, when I return home he still attaches himself to my chest and purrs for about 20 minutes.

Then later he attacks me and I have to spray him with water.

Anyway....

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Re: What coast?
[info]queerbychoice
2008-03-30 05:46 pm UTC (link)
Yes, we saw the Russian River where it flows into the ocean in Jenner, and we drove near Santa Rosa.

My cat was a little bitty kitten in a cage in an animal shelter when I found her, and she was sick with the cat flu. I fed her tuna water through an eye dropper and rubbed antibiotics into her eyes every day. She grew up to be a largish fluffy thing who purrs a lot and bites me when she gets excited (not hard, though) and doesn't know how to meow. She squeaks like a mouse.

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