seen it

i've been a poor blogger of late. it's been 12 days since my last post. perhaps there hasn't been any significant news. what have i been up to lately? transcribing medial reports, editing and correcting medical reports, reading mary gaitskill stories, listening to rufus, strolling through the dog park with kara and the beasts, watching horror movies on the tivo. same old, what what?

this week i watched not only saw but also saw 2 (on commercial television, hence probably heavily edited for content), so i'm rather proud of myself. i'd tried to watch saw on 2 previous occasions, unsuccessfully. now i'm ready, i believe, for saw 3, especially as i'm cultivating a crush on shawnee smith. but i'll probably have to wait until it's on commercial tv for me to be able to hack it. pun intended.

other news? dagmar and steve like figs. they like to pull them from the branches of the tree in our backyard. they tugged so hard on one branch today or yesterday that it broke, partially, bent sharply more like, stretching and pinning a probably-important electric cable that runs between our house and the house behind us. so this weekend, actually probably tomorrow afternoon after work, out will come my trusty reciprocating saw (it's a theme this week, i guess) and we'll do a touch of necessary pruning.

eliot's getting bathed and shaved tomorrow too. i think he'll be cheerier afterwards. he's a bit matty and skanky. and it's kinda hot around here.

oh! kara & i & some friends are going to see tacoma roller derby girls this saturday evening. that should be fun. monster chicks on skates, bashing one another about. and the day before that, 2 days from today, i'm going to watch probably at least 1 cardiac catheterization procedure at the hospital. maybe more than 1; i don't know how long such procedures take. i'm a little nervous about this, as expected, but somewhat braced now that the first 2 saw films are under my belt, as it were. if i can deal with the horrors of saw, perhaps i can watch a needle being pushed into someone's femoral artery under sterile conditions.