Update Time

Leslie's been having these lovely little posts lately, and they made me feel guilty. So here we are...

A week ago Matt and I went to see the musical "Wicked" at Fair Park with Mom and Dad. We got to the fair a few hours early to walk around and eat horrible but wonderful food (in my case, a corny dog and a funnel cake). We also took in a bit of the auto show, where I displayed my enthusiasm over a Jeep Rubicon by opening the door into Matt's eye (it swelled up rather magnificently 15 seconds later, and he had the fun time of telling coworkers I beat him). Then it was time for the musical, and it was awesome. The premise is, if you don't know, that it tells the story of the Wizard of Oz starting when the Wicked Witch of the West (Elphaba) and Glinda (Galinda) are girls in school and ending in just about the same place that the Wizard of Oz did (Dorothy is never seen, however, in this one). And not surprisingly, there is quite a twist on the original tale. Anyway, the actress playing Elphaba had an amazing voice and both female leads were wonderful actresses. Of course, the sets and costumes were amazing, and the story itself was very fun. All in all, it was insanely good and I was really happy Matt and I got to go. Plus it was great to spend some time with Mom and Dad.

In other news, hopefully you've seen pictures of the cute kitten we're fostering. They are up on overt here: http://roberts.overt.org/Foster (there are new ones up and a video!). The story behind her is that she was brought in by some good Samaritans on October 1 who'd found her injured and stray somewhere. Her only real injury was that most of the skin had been ripped from her left front arm (not detached completely, but certainly not intact either). Dr. Jackson sewed her back up, but they figured that at her age (8 weeks) and with her injury, she'd be euthanized if she went to the city. So they hung onto her hoping someone internally would either adopt or foster her. Normally one tech at work is good for taking kittens - LaNell is associated with a cat rescue group and has a ton, but she has a contagious kitten virus at her house right now. I thought "hey, we could foster a kitten and it'd be good for Piper to get a little more socialized with other animals." Matt said he'd consent to it as long as the kitten did not become a permanent member of the family. This was fine with me - I don't want a second cat and as cute as she is, we didn't have that connection I felt with Piper. So anyway, I took her home. On Friday, Piper stopped hissing and swatting her, and now she grooms her and they chase each other and wrestle and even sleep next to each other occasionally. I did have a bit of a scare when the kitten (no, she doesn't have a name) had a temperature, so I took her to Dr. Sarpong at her new clinic (Hillside) just to make sure something wasn't going horribly wrong with her stitches at about 10pm tonight. It was really good to see Sarpong anyway, and Hillside is nice. They are open until midnight, too, which is neat. She gave the kitten something to help her fever and said nothing was too bad about the leg, just to up her antibiotic dose. And I got to congratulate Sarpong on her upcoming blessing (she's pregnant!) in person.

Hmm, what else? Oh yeah, Matt's been insanely busy with tax stuff (for instance, he isn't home yet) but thinks he'll be done by the weekend. We stayed at his house with Luke on Saturday night because his parents were in College Station, and that was fun (except for the Aggie game). So yes, I'm looking forward to having my husband back!

WoWzers

Yes, I'm still playing lots of WoW. I'm in mourning, though, because Bryan is giving up the game for good. He was my one real-life friend who played the game with me, and I don't know how fun playing Horde will be without him. :/ Luckily (?) for me, just before that, I'd been getting more into playing on the other side (Alliance) with my paladin Nyda. She was level 34 when I left the game in March, and I hadn't played her at all when I came back, focusing instead on getting Zetarg the orc warlock to the top level of 60 and making a troll warrior named Zyda, now level 39. Well, when things in my Horde guild got bad and Bryan had to spend more time studying, I turned back to my pally. I found a RP guild called the Crimson Knights on the Alliance, and for the first time on a RP server (which means theoretically everyone should be "in character" all the time), I got to role-play. It's been really fun and added a new dimension to the game. Add that to the fact that my guildmates are very cool and Nyda just got her warhorse (increasing her travel speed by 60% which is HUGE) and I think I may be playing the game for at least one more month. But interest in the game really varies, so next week or the week after I may feel differently.

In other news, Graham got back from his 47-day European adventure a few weeks ago and we hung out a few times. We got together on 9/20 and had dinner and he showed me all his pictures and told me his stories. He had an awesome time. Then last Tuesday we got together again because he was going back to LA on Thursday. We drove to his dad's studio and after I got the tour, we picked up the DVDs of our Latin trip to Italy and Greece in the summer of 1999. We also picked up a bottle of cabernet. So, we sat on the couch at our apartment and watched the awesomeness that was that trip, seeing 6-year-old version of ourselves, Elliot, Louis, Carl Jackson, Boniface and diverse others while splitting the bottle. I was really sad when he left because he was moving back to LA. It makes complete sense - he absolutely needs to be there to do what he wants - but he was here in Dallas since the wedding (except for the 47 days in Europe) and I got to see him more than I had since high school. I guess I just got spoiled. There's one more person in the UC Davis camp, though, encouraging me to go out to Cali for vet school.

Speaking of vet school, my application is all taken care of. The main app had been submitted to the TMDSAS a few weeks ago and I got a letter saying they have forwarded it on to A&M. And my A&M supplemental app is in, and all three of my letters of recommendation have been mailed (2/3 received by TMDSAS). Now, this doesn't mean that something might still get messed up, but it appears as if everything is in order. The website says I should know about interviews by December 22 (hopefully it is sooner than that).