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asato_muraki) wrote2011-05-18 05:48 pm
asato_muraki) wrote2011-05-18 05:48 pm
Things Seventeen and Eighteen
Yesterday, I fed a week-old kitten. Abandoned by its mother and eventually coming into the care of my friend Meredith, this kitten was incredibly tiny. Meredith is the lady who gave us the caterpillars, so as soon as she was settled in with the kitty, she suggested I bring the fellas over for a look at her "newest science experiment."
Here is the kitten, which the rescuer called "Eric" after the True Blood character, but my boys quickly named "Toast."
Mer is using a warm, damp paper towel to simulate a mother's licking, which helps the poor thing relive himself. We had to feed him with a dropper, and medicate his eyes, too. No pictures of that because my hands were busy at the time. ;)
Here is my Wee Boy (11) holding Toast after he was wrapped up in a fleece thing Mer called a "kitty burrito." The boys decided to call it a "Purrito," because they think they're very clever.
Here is one of Big Boy (14 in two weeks), pretending to be about to eat the Purrito. It gives you a good sense of scale, anyway.
And another, just so you can see how itty bitty it is.
So cute!
Today, I finally posted my interview with "James S.A. Corey" (the writing team of Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck), which I had been attempting to transcribe for-freaking-ever. (I really suck at transcription, and I kept having to stop because it gave me migraines. :P )
In any case, the interview itself was tremendous fun. You can read it yourself at GeekaChicas - Leviathan Wakes: A Chat with the Authors.
It was fun to see how they work together, and how easily they could razz each other. Daniel Abraham's entire body of work has landed right in my To Be Read list. He was very charming, and his list of favorite authors made me very happy. His rants about Urban Fantasy and "weaponized" female characters also had me thinking. His take on the phenomenon I used to call The Buffy Effect helped me clarify my thinking about it.
It also put my protagonist in perspective, too. Lethe is a reaction to the whole "female power through violence" thing, but in a different way. I'm anxious to get back to her.
Here is the kitten, which the rescuer called "Eric" after the True Blood character, but my boys quickly named "Toast."
Mer is using a warm, damp paper towel to simulate a mother's licking, which helps the poor thing relive himself. We had to feed him with a dropper, and medicate his eyes, too. No pictures of that because my hands were busy at the time. ;)
Here is my Wee Boy (11) holding Toast after he was wrapped up in a fleece thing Mer called a "kitty burrito." The boys decided to call it a "Purrito," because they think they're very clever.
Here is one of Big Boy (14 in two weeks), pretending to be about to eat the Purrito. It gives you a good sense of scale, anyway.
And another, just so you can see how itty bitty it is.
So cute!
Today, I finally posted my interview with "James S.A. Corey" (the writing team of Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck), which I had been attempting to transcribe for-freaking-ever. (I really suck at transcription, and I kept having to stop because it gave me migraines. :P )
In any case, the interview itself was tremendous fun. You can read it yourself at GeekaChicas - Leviathan Wakes: A Chat with the Authors.
It was fun to see how they work together, and how easily they could razz each other. Daniel Abraham's entire body of work has landed right in my To Be Read list. He was very charming, and his list of favorite authors made me very happy. His rants about Urban Fantasy and "weaponized" female characters also had me thinking. His take on the phenomenon I used to call The Buffy Effect helped me clarify my thinking about it.
It also put my protagonist in perspective, too. Lethe is a reaction to the whole "female power through violence" thing, but in a different way. I'm anxious to get back to her.