it’s 6:00am on a saturday morning, and i can’t go back to sleep. this is about the time that boerne would be jumping onto the bed, begging to be fed or petted.

boerne died on thursday. he had been my buddy for 10 years.

yesterday i felt surprisingly OK. i kept myself busy and out of the house all day. then i came home and the reality of boerne’s absence kicked me in the ass again.

skokie’s been very, very clingy since thursday….which, i think, helps both of us.

the vet did an autopsy. she found a small growth in boerne’s heart and one of his ventrical walls was “paper thin.” i think she mentioned something like “cardio myopathy” or vestibular-blah-blah, but i really can’t remember. i was a little angry at her - i had taken boerne in to see her on Tuesday, and she said he was fine. “he’s just getting older, and gravity’s getting the best of him,” was her assessment of his sudden balance problems. in the end, though, i suppose there isn’t really anything she could have done. boerne was always rather sickly.

anyways.

I HAVE THE DAY OFF TODAY.

wooooo

I just spent 30 horrible, terrifying minutes waging war with the first cockroach of the season. Welcome to summertime in Houston. Fuck.

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One of the more important bits of information to be learned from this article is that kimchi makes chickens livelier. (more…)

Saw a movie last night at the Angelika, and one of the trailers was for The Year of the Yao - an upcoming documentary about everyone’s favorite Houston Rockets player, Yao Ming.

I ::heart:: Yao. Something about him is so endearing, the way little brothers are endearing. Maybe it’s because Yao seems to have a quiet, stoic persona that reminds me of my own little brother. Except, of course, he isn’t 7ft 6in tall.

The Year of the Yao first screened at the Toronto Film Festival in September 2004. It premieres here in Houston on April 15th at the Landmark Theater….and goes nationwide on April 29th.

I predict an invAsian at the Landmark, April 15th. I’m so there. (more…)

 

 

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