Many Updates.

Many Updates.

I picked up our freshly adopted kitten yesterday. He's four months old, super clingy and nuzzly and sweet, and viscious with those feather-on-stick toys. He also doesn't really have a name yet. Our favorite was Franklin, the recurring-guest-role black kid in Peanuts, but it felt a little strange calling him something so formal/old-man-y like Franklin or Frankie when I was trying to convince him our home is a loving home. His official name is Joker (according to the microchip paperwork), but that has to go. I figure he's only got four months of Joker under his belt, and none of the volunteers at the shelter knew his name anyway. I'm officially open to suggestions. I definitely like Frankie, though. It's half cute, half mob. Well, 1/3 cute, 1/3 mob, 1/3 old-man-y.

He has an upper respiratory infection right now (I'm taking him back to the vet tomorrow), and even though it sucks for him, KITTEN SNEEZES ARE TOTALLY CUTE.

He bit my boob yesterday. BIT. MY BOOB. He bit my fucking boob. That wasn't cute.

As of this morning, Erik is camping out on the trail for the rest of the week, deep in the Los Padres National Forest building walls out of rocks they break themselves and redefining trail boundaries and shredding poison oak with their bare hands (just kidding on that one; I think they wear gloves). This means that not only will I not see my husband for the rest of the week, I also won't be able to talk to him. There are no cell signals out there. I think we've gone more than a day without talking while one of us is out of town - maybe a weekend max. This is going to suck. Luckily, I have a sweet sneezy kitten to keep me company. And luckily, my husband is a total outdoorsy stud.

I have a new political-crush on NPR's Asia Correspondent, Rob Gifford. His week-plus-long series as he travelled across China's route 321 was fantastic, even the part where he sang karaoke Desperado.

Don't worry, Marc Garlasco isn't being replaced.

That's all. Real posts and even a list or two are forthcoming!