Friday Cat Blogging: What to get your cat for Christmas

First up, the Undercover Cat Teaser.



Second, the answer to "Which music will my cat like?" It was all done very scientifically.


Next, what your cat really wants to eat.




Finally, what your cat has been telling you all this time, courtesy of GEEKitty on etsy.

Too dumb for twitter

First, how can anyone subscribe to more than 2 feeds and have time to do anything else? It's overwhelming! Second, the "conversations" aren't linear - they just show up in chronological order. Third, if someone "tweeted" me (if that's the correct term), I don't know it unless I read like, a whole day's worth of tweets.

Am I missing something here?

Maybe next semester I'll teach my class via twitter. It could be interesting.

Update, like 45 seconds later: Never mind. I figured out the "if someone tweets in the woods, can McPan read it?" I'm so dumb.

Friday Cat Blogging: lolcatz

The Big Cheese

I did it! It was close but I made it just in time. Finding a cheesehead hat when you're like 1,000 miles away from Wisconsin is very difficult, fyi.

Season's endings

This week is the finale of America's Next Top Model and Project Runway. AND there's a new Glee (totally glad baseball is over. I didn't even care who won; I just wanted Glee back) and SVU.

I was watching last week's Project Runway and realized that Tim Gunn doesn't take off his suit for anything. He was helping make biscuits at Carol Hannah's house - in a full suit! I would think you'd at least take your coat off so that you wouldn't get flour or something on the sleeves. That dude is one tidy dude.

I was pleased with the way Mad Men ended this season. Last season just went off the rails toward the end.

I'm running out of tv! My students suggested I rent The Wire. Yay or nay?

Today's mission

Step 1: find or craft a Cheesehead hat. Yes, a Cheesehead hat. Oh, and it has to be done before 5:00 today.

Step 2: ???

Step 3: Profit?

Semi-epic fail

I've been a bad blogger. I didn't even realize how long it had been since I last blogged. I've been busy setting up my practice but still looking for a job at the same time. I guess I've had a hard time fully committing to the practice because I still want a job where someone else is my boss, or at least does all the admin stuff.

I hate finding clients. I hate being a bill collector and seeking payment all the time. I hate not having an office to go into every day. I hate being alone - I work better if I have people I can bounce ideas off of. I also realized that I have to make about 35% more than I made before, in order to make the same amount (taxes and stuff that are normally taken out of your paycheck so you don't get used to having that amount of money). Right now I'd say I'm making about negative 90% more than I made before.

On the upside...I don't have to be at work by 8? Well, I didn't have to be there at 8 at my last job, so not much of a difference. If anything, it's worse because since I don't ever know if I'm going anywhere, I don't bother showering first thing. I think the cats like me being home, though. Don't have to pay for parking (except any time I go someplace downtown).

Basically, I'm a failure as a solo. You'd think this would give me more time to blog, but somehow I just never find myself wanting to blog.

Friday Cat Blogging

I think Tess is trying to smeyes.

Um, oops

Have you ever wondered what would happen if you left a large red tupperware in your oven for no apparent reason? And then one day decided to make cookies and preheated that oven? And then realized, when you opened the oven, that that tupperware had melted?

Anyway, this is what it would look like. Actually, there was a lot more. These were just the giant pieces.

To add insult to injury, I ended up burning the cookies anyway. Grr!

Yep, I voted

No promises of free coffee, donuts, or Chick-fil-A but I still did my civic duty and voted.

I can't believe I actually had to ask for a sticker. They should be slapping them on you as you walk in! Geez, that's 70% of the reasons I vote: stickers!

Not quite dead yet

But I've developed a strange fascination with fake eyelashes. I guess it's something to do while I'm jobless, and it's relatively cheap. Could be worse hobbies, I suppose. I can't decide if it's too fabulous for a daily thing. It's not like I'm wearing these:

or these:
or even these:
Are (natural-ish) fake eyelashes suitable for public use?