I’d be more tempted to blog I i hadn’t been sitting in the same chair working on the same essay for the last 13 hours. My back is killing me. My brain is numb. And my fingers are getting clumsy.
And, I have finished the first draft of the first essay I’ve written in three and a half years. When I put it that way, my day sounds almost triumphant! Even if I didn’t manage to get a Christmas tree like I was hoping.
Also in the triumph news today, we put an application in for a dog from a rescue society! I don’t know if said dog is still available, but it sounds like the perfect pet for our house.. medium sized, house broken, good with cats, easy to care for, mild tempered, friendly, and cute! Hopefully they will contact us tomorrow to tell us what’s up. Right after we put the application in they took several dogs off the website and listed them as adopted, so I’m not clear if that means our application put that dog in pseudo-adoptive status, or if someone else for-really adopted that dog earlier in the day and they just hadn’t updated yet. It’s surprisingly hard to adopt a dog these days. Just like everything like this on the internet – dogs, jobs, apartments, free stuff… anything with an “act now!” clause attached has already been acted upon and the transaction has been completed before your browser is even done loading. Trolling the pound used to be the only way to go, and these days.. it’s still probably the most successful.
Wishing my tomorrow-self good luck with el perro, I’d better go get some sleep. You never know how early these dog people might call!