Oct 04 2007
Ugh…electricity and yay…puppies!
These past few days have been a bit icky, as they have had the power and thus heating and water turned off for the past day and a half from 7am to 7pm. Mostly it’s affected internet access and cooking, but those bits are two rather major portions of my life, so boo. And perhaps I can blame the puppy on that…
It’s the same puppy that I’ve seen milling around for the past 3 days or so. She’s the one that followed me to work one day, and yesterday she was hanging around the health department, and thus I picked her up. She’s actually rather heavy, so I ended up sticking her in my backpack and carrying it from the front like a dork.
She’s really cute and doesn’t move much - my favorite kind of pet. Though I’ve heard when you first get animals here they tend to be really tired at first - big transition from constant cold and moving and scrounging to, well, being fed and warm. So maybe she’ll be a terror later. Being rather adverse to this kind of commitment, I continually have second thoughts - my track record with pets is not all the great if I’m responsible for them - but perhaps I will have free time and thus it’ll be ok. I figure she can play with Jason’s puppy and tire themselves out so it’ll be minimal effort on my part.
I’ve been trying out names on her and I think she may be called Francine. Again, ew, responsibility.
Tonight there be latkes and people over for em. Plus they can help tire out the puppy 
Anna, if you’re still out in internet land, thanks muchly for the card and padded envelope - I’ll attempt the Mongolia-Ethiopia postal adventure very soon…mmm…coffee
Sharlene - I got it! It took like 2 weeks and the cheez-its arrived in wonderfully intact condition - I had em for dinner the same night and almost made myself sick 
Bonnie - remember eggs Benedict. plerf.
