Horace

I neglected to mention a pretty big component of this past week in my last post. One day early last week, Horace had puked up what Mary Beth called the hugest lake of puke ever. He was also seeming funny otherwise. Mary Beth looked it up and it turns out the the lillies she'd gotten for our anniversary 'cuz she had a coupon are extremely poisonous to cats. After a few days they end up with complete kidney failure. We were pretty freaked out about it. There's only a small window where you can take 'em to a vet and they can pump the stomach but after that the cats just die. We had missed the window of a vet being able to do anything, but we kept a close eye on him. Over the next few days if anything he seemed more active and more playful and more energetic (the cats are supposed to act like sick cats and hide and not wanna eat and wanna keep drinking water 'cuz their kidneys are failing). Anyway, the days passed and he's still healthy if not extra-healthy. I think what may have happened is he did eat some of the plant and vomiting served its intended purpose and he just puked everything up and saved his fucking life. It's also possible he didn't eat it and got sick for some other reason, but I think we had a real close call. I'm happy Horace is okay regardless.

Today was like a break at work as we had this long test that made homeroom last forever and I only had one actual class. This one student was trying to get out of taking this test. At one point he started to get up and walk out and said to someone else "I'm thuggin'." So I said to him, "you're not thuggin'" and made him come back to class (also mentioning saying something to his coach). I'll mention here now that "thuggin'" is pretty much class cutting: walking around the halls, not being in class, bein' a thug. I grew very accustomed to thuggin' at Melrose. Anyway, he was very amused by my saying "you're not thuggin'." He even said he was gonna start coming to homeroom (obviously he skips all the time, the reason he showed up today was a coach had brought him in). Anyway, he was talking to me and said thuggin' is fun and I should do it too. I told him "my thuggin' days are over" and he and quite a few other students burst out laughing. I made a funny.

I got my laptop back today. Need to set everything up again. Apparently it was the hard drive which is weird 'cuz I was able to back everything up to my computer when I removed it. Anyway.