You know that Walter Koenig and his wife are our neighbors, right? They had a huge Bernie sign up in their yard until the day she won the votes, when it was replaced with an equally huge Hillary sign.
See, that's what I'm talking about!
On a semi-related note, there was a huge Star Trek convention in Last Vegas last week, and we happened to be there. So that was generally hilarious, as it seemed like everyone in the casino was in at least a Starfleet uniform, if not full Vulcan makeup. But I'm sure I saw the guy who played Tuvok just walking by!
Huh, turns out I was wrong about the gender of one of the half-grown alleycats that I've been working on befriending; she apparently just had deceptively fluffy nether regions. Pro: she was almost certainly pregnant rather than swollen with worms as I'd worried Con: She's very little and young to be having kittens and hangs around her dad all the time, so she probably either miscarried or has a hidden litter of gross mutant babies at the moment.
I have a lot of nearby family-life drama and I am working really hard to not let it become my anxiety as none of it is my family.
- friend has separated from spouse of 6 years and moved out.
- friend has a daughter in hospital for 4 days for brain testing wrt epilepsy with no good way of paying what the insurance won't which is most of it (she is fighting them)
- online friend is going through divorce after 14 years and has never been in the workforce, 2 kids
- friend and husband just had a call from their youngest child (14) that he wants to now live with his birthmom (he visits every summer) because she is fun. Birthmom left him, dad and older brother on Christmas Day 11 years ago.
So much stress on these people and pain.
Oh, man, msbelle. That is a lot.
That is a lot for all of those friends.
Wishing you peace, ms belle, and healing for your friends.
Oh, msbelle, that's all so sad.
I can only complain about this here. My job is usually not very exciting, although I generally get a nice mix of projects to work on. Today, however, I had to drop everything because Christopher frelling Nolan wants to film on one of our properties and when we said "No," the studio called Senator Boxer. Who then called us.
So now I'm trying to figure out if 3 weeks of shooting on this one property will have any significant adverse environmental effects. And do it immediately, because they want to start working this week! WTH.
And no, I don't know what movie it is. But it's all kind of ridiculous, and can't he just use CGI?
That's amazing.
I am back at work today, and it turns out -- and I know this is going to shock some people -- that I prefer vacation.
I've been home just over 24 hours and have taken both cats to the vet. Today is Rosie's oral surgery and Gilda had a follow up on her ear treatments. Gilda was so very put out with me. I hope Rosie's work doesn't end up being too extensive.
I'm not sure my subconscious is back from vacation yet. I woke several times with images of twisty coastal roads in my head. I did discover on this trip that I'm allergic to Portland. I wonder how likely that is to extend to Seattle or Vancouver.
How are you allergic to Portland?
I prefer vacation. I need one.
