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Second verse worse than the first

November 8, 2011emily No Comments »

So if that wasn’t enough, we woke up at 2:30 this morning from a weird sound emanating from the dining room. Upon further (sleepy) investigation, it turned out to be the goddamned cat with another (live) flying squirrel. WTF? She dropped it on the dining room floor (at least she was in the right room [...]

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Look what the cat dragged in

November 7, 2011emily 1 Comment »

So, a few days ago, we walked into the living room and saw the cat disembowling a small animal. She was so, uh, thorough that it was impossible to say precisely what kind of small animal it was. All that registered to me was: small animal, dead in living room, entrails underneath coffee table, GAH. [...]

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On getting a financial life

November 4, 2011emily No Comments »

Several years ago, John and I had a lot of credit card debt. A LOT of credit card debt. Our theory was, there’s no way to escape graduate school unscathed in the debt department, so might as well accept it. Well. Hah. That led to problems (see above, re: a lot of credit card debt). [...]

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