When I ended up with Loki, I had no idea I'd end up with such a lovey cat. Now MK was lovey too, but he's old and prefers to sleep on my bed 95% if the time now. And Devi is my first love, but she's a proximity cat, one you earn her attentions. Loki? He wants to be pet, to cuddle, to chew my hair. It's nice to have all 3.

Is there any reason not to get the H1N1 vaccine?

Now that there's an ample supply, doctors are recommending as many people as possible get it so we can build up herd immunity before the anticipated third wave next fall. (Since this is a pandemic and not a seasonal flu, doctors will continue to vaccinate year round until we wipe it out. Fortunately it's been very stable so far - no scary mutations that would make the vaccine obsolete.)

Now that there's an ample supply, doctors are recommending as many people as possible get it so we can build up herd immunity before the anticipated third wave next fall.

Okay, I changed my mind. I'll get the vaccine. I was holding off because of the restricted supply, and me not ever having gotten the flu. But I wonder how many other people would be convinced by the phrase "build up herd immunity"?

They have plenty of the vaccine now. That's why I got immunized. And because I'm traveling a lot this year.

My god, Enver Gjokaj got hotter in the series finale of Dollhouse. Dushku's looking pretty good too, but that's not where my focus lies.

I hate those fucking Campbell's soup ads. Seriously! 60 fucking calories?

HATE. HAAAAAAAAAATE. I want to write Campbell's and thank them for making it possible for me to eat, like, 35 BOWLS OF SOUP A DAY without becoming a big fat fattie.

You could have one of those frozen meals and the soup and be doing good calorie wise.

You could have one of those frozen meals

You mean 310 calories IN ONE MEAL?!? Nooooooooooooo!!!

Seriously, I want a t-shirt that says "NO, I DON'T WANT TO HEAR ABOUT YOUR DIET!" January is the worst for that shit, because of resolutions and whatnot, and all the "I'm so BAAAAAAAAAAAD because I ate a cookie" talk makes me want to punch people in the neck.

And the obsessive diet talk is triggery as hell for me, but I don't tell the diet-talk people that, because it's none of their business and I don't know them well enough to be willing to explain why. (And I don't trust them enough to believe that they would understand why and accept that it's valid.)

But seriously? Eating NEVER makes a person "bad." Unless you ate a puppy or something.

You know the only hard-and-fast rule of nutrition? IF YOU DON'T EAT, YOU DIE. So. There's that.

I just sent them an email saying that their ad is dangerous and encourages an unhealthy idea of how many calories a proper meal should be and that such commercials encourage disordered eating.

When my sister was at the worst of her eating disorder, she would tell me that her max daily caloric intake was about 800 calories. I explained to her that she would get more calories in an Indonesian prison.

Those ad are marketed right at her. Pisses. Me. Off. Mostly because they don't pose them as an addition to a healthy meal or part of a healthy meal. They position them as a meal substitute.

Fuckers.