Yeah, its a meme.

thebabynancy said:

Comment on this post. I will choose seven interests from your profile and you will explain what they mean and why you are interested in them.

So, I did that, and here are the interests she chose, and my answers:

• bujold: Lois McMaster Bujold is an accomplished S.F. writer, and someone who's books I regularly enjoy. She has also mastered what I find to be the hardest part of writing: understanding how different people will have completely different interpretations of the exact same events, due to their different histories and personaliites.
• extropianism: I'm still a member of the Extropian Mailing List, although I've never actually been a card-carrying Extropian. Its mainly because the original Extropian principles involved Transhumanism (which I'm all for) combined with Libertarianism (which I'm not so much a fan of). Lately the founders have mellowed somewhat, and so extropianism is coming closer to agreeing with me, than vice versa.
  
• ian m banks: Another S.F. author worthy of great praise (and who's first name I've just discovered is Iain, not Ian -- Oh the shame!). He's one of my favorite authors, being responsible for the Culture novels. I don't read his mainstream stuff though, as its mostly horror and I don't do horror.
  
• red dwarf: When my younger brother tried to describe to me the strangeness that was Red Dwarf, I thought it sounded really bad. How wrong I was. It was a wonderfully silly and funny science fiction series, and I'm sad it ended the way it did. It now also reminds me very much of denizsarikaya as the Cat character was one of her most favorite characters of all time.
  
• roger zelazny: Isaac Asimov was my first favorite S.F. author. Roger Zelazny was the second. I have tried (not always succeeding) to get get my hands on absolutely everything he's written. He's probably best knows for his Princes of Amber novels, but my all time favorite of his is Jack of Shadows, followed closely by Lord of Light.
  
• sandman: Neil Gaiman's Sandman is what I was thinking about when I put in this entry. I have all of Gaiman's sandman books in hardcover, because I loved them so much. When one of the books controversially won the world fantasy award for literature, I agreed whole-heartedly with the assessment because, graphic novel or not, it was the best piece of literature of any category that I had read in the previous five years.
  
• voyeurism: I would think the desire to look at naked women would be pretty much self-explanatory.
  

Kitty News.

After acting like she was in pretty bad shape over Friday and Saturday, sucha seemed to be doing a bit better on Sunday and today. She's not yowling nearly as much, and has been managing to sleep a lot. In addition, it looks like the reason she's stopped eating isn't that the painkillers have stopped working on her, but that her secondary mouth infection has come back. We finally managed to talk to the Vet today, and she says that that is a fairly common occurance in this kind of thing.

So, we're putting her back on antibiotics as soon as we can pick up another batch at the Vet's, and we're going to be switching her to a more expensive version of the painkillers which are a) liquid and b) tuna-flavored in the hopes it will be easier to get her to take the stuff. Lately she's been selectively eating food that doesn't have the painkillers in it, so I think she's decided she doesn't like the flavor.