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November 05, 2004

mourning several losses (and a record for the use of the word "pee" in a blog entry)

First, I should just say that I, like others and others and others (though those listed here have faculties of expression where I don't), am disappointed nearly beyond expression; I woke in the night Tuesday (Wednesday morning) to pee and surfed over to CNN to check on how the electoral numbers were coming down. Then (somewhere around 3 in the morning), Kerry still had a fighting chance: Ohio. I slept the rest of the night hopeful. I woke the next morning to huge losses: Ohio looking red, and my mail lady knocking on the door to ask if we had a "little calico kitty." Well, yeah, we got three. She pulls me out into the driveway so I can see into and across the road: a small body of white mottled cashmere lay still near our mailbox. She wanted to catch us before we put the girls out for the bus (for they would have certainly seen her first.)

I thanked her. Brian retrieved her, my Callie, and put her in a box from a case of valvoline. He buried her unceremoniously later that day near the garden and we waited until Hannah was home from school to tell her. She was devastated, understandably. She's a pretty sensitive little lady, and Callie was "the favorite" all around.

The hard part, though, was that Callie and the others have been relegated to the outside since Ginger (calico torty) peed rather obstinantly on the kitchen floor right under my nose with something like disdain on her little black and brown face [this was a couple weeks ago]. I flipped out and sent them all outside for good. We plan(ned) to put a kitty door in the garage and fashion a small cubby for them to cuddle in. They tended to prefer being outside anyway, and were really only inside to eat (and pee on my floor, it seems). Anyway, I feel huge guilt for kicking them out. Hannah even said "Mom, Callie wanted in last night! You should've let her in!!" Ugh. My scripted "I can't handle the cats and the bazillion people. I have enough trouble cleaning up PEE from PEOPLE much less pee from cats" sounded heartless.

So, back to documenting reactions to the election. This, via Liz Lawley should be telling to all those evangelical, value-mongering, anti-intellectuals who think W is a pious leader. I should mention here that this Bush-giving-victory-bird is not from this victory but instead from something from when he was govenor of TX, but I don't even care about contextuality or fairness or any rhetorical responsibilty right now.

Let's do polemic, shall we?

Posted by mryonker at November 5, 2004 07:19 PM

Comments

So sorry to hear about your kitty.

Posted by: New Kid on the Hallway at November 5, 2004 09:05 PM

Serious sympathies for the death of the cat. They're wonderful creatures, much too short-lived, and every time one of ours dies, I feel terrible guilt for the ways in which I might have prevented the death.

Posted by: senioritis at November 5, 2004 09:05 PM

I'm sorry about the kitty, too.

Posted by: bitchphd at November 6, 2004 07:18 AM

I'm sorry about your cat. Maybe there's something going around. I, too, had guilt about my cat. Maybe I should have continued his medication--even thought it wasn't really helping. Should have, could have . . . In the end, it's the circle of life--than k you Disney.

Posted by: geekymom at November 7, 2004 08:34 AM