Speaking of Fur

This is so sad. Part of me thinks it's sad for Greg, because I know how much it sucks to be in the hospital. Another part of me--and I have to admit that this is the larger part--thinks it's sadder still for me. My hair looks lousy, people. Oh, my hair looks bad. It needs cutting. It has needed cutting for many weeks because I forgot when Greg was going on vacation. (I thought he would be gone the last two weeks in March, not the last three weeks in April. D'oh.)

A friend remarked to me that I'd be justified in cheating on my hairdresser under these circumstances, but I couldn't bring myself to do it. Greg always does a really good job on my hair, and I hate to take a risk with something so important. I need only wait until Thursday, and then I'll be much happier.

You just don't realize how much your hair affects your life until your hair goes out of control.

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Now, I'll cop to watching E.R. for my weekly dose of cheesy melodrama. I watched it when it was decent, and then I think I started watching again after I began spending a lot of time in real emergency rooms. There's a lot less yelling in real emergency rooms. However, last week's episode had one story line that involved two guys dressed in animal suits who got into a scuffle at a "con." One of them remarked to a doctor that he wasn't a "furvert," and then explained what a furvert was.

I thought that the writers of E.R. had finally made up something really creative as a one-off subplot, because I couldn't imagine anybody actually wanting to wear an animal costume on a regular basis. Eeew. Talk about something that would cause problems for your skin.

So Ed and I went out get food last weekend and I related this story, thinking that the writers had made it up, and so forth. He suggested that I should try a google search on "furvert."

I liked the world better when that term was a figment of somebody's imagination.

What makes this even weirder is that I've started reading the forum at cats.about.com because the guide there has an FIV+ cat and she writes about him and his health quite a bit. There's a significant number of people who post there who refer to their cats as "fur babies" or "furkids." Lots of them have multiple, multiple cats.

Don't get me wrong. I love my cats the same way people are supposed to love their children. I would run into a burning building to save them; but I will never, ever, resort to calling them furkids.

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