Jack the fat cat

We took jack to the vet the other day for his next round of vaccinations, and got him officially weighed at the same time.

Turns out that in 4 weeks he has gone from 2.2 to 2.8kg, which while not necessarily constituting fat, as the title possibly misleadingly indicated, still points to the fact that Jack is going to grow to become a rather large cat.

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An end to stationary

As I was shopping for filing cabinet folders today I realised that graduating has (temporarily at least) negated another of my bizarrely favorite activities: shopping for stationary.

These days whenever a drug or equipment rep wants to sell us something to us they give us pens, notepads, rulers, calculators, more pens.. well you get the idea, so shopping for stationary becomes a little unnecessary. On the one hand this is good, because I should be spending my pay on paying off my credit card anyway, and besides, I don’t really have the free time any more to be randomly perusing stationary stores, but I did always find it a strangely satisfying looking at the dizzying array of colours and shapes that the pen isle offered up.

Incompressible

One of the things about getting married as a staid white guy is getting used to wearing a ring, and one of the things I’ve been noticing recently is how I’ve become used to having my ring on.

Now, when I have to take it off to go into theatre of whatever I find it quite weird that when I squeeze my third, fourth and fifth fingers together my ring finger is soft and squishy, rather than being firm and metallic and incompressible, as I have become used to it being.