Go, -t! That's a great accomplishment!

sara, I hope the pool drama resolves quickly, so that you may swin whenever you wish.

Theo, sorry to hear about Muppet. Crossing my fingers for both of you, and fist-bumping you in the solidarity of giving all the monies to the vet. D is apparently diabetic, but managed to hide it (the recent heat wave didn't help, since ALL of the cats were drinking water like crazy) until yesterday morning when he was on the verge of collapse.

My old cat Solomon had rusty and/or dark yellow pee, and started peeing out of the box, which is how I found out he was diabetic. I thought it was going to be a real pain and expense having a diabetic cat, but I just stuck him when he was eating each morning, and he didn't even notice! And me with my needle phobia -- fur makes ALL the difference.

I hope Muppet is OK.

Best to muppet

Cat~ma to the ailing kitties.

Cat~ma to the ailing kitties.

Seconded.

Thanks for all of the congratulations.

So, today is the anniversary of when Grace came home permanently. It's been 4 years which feels like forever.

Jesse, Bombing Hitler's Dams is on next week.

Happy Anniversary, Grace--and family!

I hope the drama settles, sarameg.

Six miles is great, -t! Actually, it's exhausting for me to think about, but yay, you!

Best thoughts to the ill kitties, and their humans.

Happy Grace-a-versary! Also sending positive vibes to kitties.

Juliana, Seamus was diagnosed with diabetes this year, and I've found treating it to be easy--and it's SO awesome to watch how healthy and happy he is now.

There are a lot of heroes in the room.

I count Grace as one of them.

You know how people don't really understand your job? Try explaining one that involves this work product:

Sensing violence: An ethnography of mixed martial arts

This article describes the sensory experiences of fighting through an ethnography of mixed martial arts (MMA). MMA is an emergent sport where competitors in a ring or cage utilize strikes (punches, kicks, elbows, and knees) as well as submission techniques to defeat opponents. This sensory ethnography involves, inter alia, the documentation of the rhythms pertaining to the cadence of drills, the flow of sparring and grappling sessions, the attunement of bodies to other bodies through touch, the beat of music accompanying training sessions, the smell of sweat and flatulence, and the throbbing pain that is registered through taste. This article relies on 45 in-depth interviews with mixed martial art fighters and participant observation over a four-year period.