Bengal Rescue

This was posted on Fabulous Lorraine's blog ... I've never actually met a real Bengal cat but Lorraine has a great love and passion for them and says they really are some of the most wonderful animals on Earth. So:

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

SOS Bengal Rescue NOW!!!!!!!!
We have two really lovely Marble Benglas sisters who need help NOW. We have until Wednesday evening to save them, or they will die. Not be "Put to Sleep" or "Euthanized". They will die. They are healthy, later generation, no behavioral problems. None of this is their fault.

Ohio are you there? Anyone near enough to make it?

All you need to foster these kitties is a room, anywhere. And a love of animals. No special experience.You have heard me talk about Bengals, and the problems with Lear and Magic, and you have also heard me say that most Bengals are wonderful loving kitties. These girls are later generation, with NO problems. Magic and Lear are early generation, who came with a LOT of problems. There girls are very, very adoptable, but what they need NOW is a foster home who can take them until we can get them to a current foster, or to stay with you until we find them a home.

They have no time.

I can't make it in time. And I have no more rooms. Help them and I will owe you a Favor.

A Really. Big. Favor.

(Yes, like in Neverwhere.) (Note: She's referring to her Boss's novel.)

From Janet at Great Lakes Bengal Rescue:

I have a situation in which I need a foster home for two bengal sisters in Cleveland, OH NOW. Due to a domestic problem, hospitalization, divorce, and now a move, the girls have no home. I have until tomorrow evening or they will be euthanized. I have no foster homes in OH. Please crosspost any way you can and keep fingers and toes crossed for the girls. If you can help, please email or call me.Thanks, JanetJanet SaltzmanGreat Lakes Bengal Rescuewww.greatlakesbengalrescue.comFort Wayne, IN260-672-2204

Love and Please Help Me,

Lorraine

So tell people.

Emily

On Home-Schooling and Why It Might Possibly Be Just the Slightest Bit Less "Easy" Than Some Think

I would like to drop this quick note from myself, a home-schooled senior in Rhode Island: I can't even begin to tell you how often I get, "WHOA, home-schooled, I wish I were home-schooled, it must be so fun, you get to sleep in, and you don't have to do work, and it must be great to slack off; you have it so easy!"

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Ha. Ha. Ha.

The next person who says this to me can have ALL my Latin, Russian, Chinese, German Literature, English Literature, chemistry, geometry, and World History. Yes, I get through all of this in a day. No, it is not in small amounts. Good-bye.

Emily

Emily's Sorry Attempt at a Pancake

Thanking the Fiends

I want to thank all the Fiends (http://fabulouslorraine.com or http://blog.fabulouslorraine.com, where we all hang out since we can't be together in person) for their comments on my poem on Teen Ink's website. It's posted as anonymous, because it's of quite a personal nature, but I really really can't thank them enough. My whole week was made eight thousand percent perfect by their comments and their just reading it.

Emily

A Fun Night And Getting Better and a Question For Trekkies

Tonight was my first ever community chorus practice; loads of fun. We have all this fantastic music we're doing, from secular Christmas songs (the concert is of course at Christmastime) to traditional spiritual to the Star Spangled Banner to random fun theatrical songs.

I am getting better. I got back to library shelving today! I never thought I would miss shelving the mysteries (we don't get along. Ever. At all) ... but it was really really really nice. I am so content just shoving volumes into their correct places.

I asked a question on Yahoo! Answers and got one totally weird answer that just does not work for me on so many levels. The question was, "Trekkies: what think you of Leonard McCoy?" and goes on to say, "It seems people don't love him in the same way they tend to love Captain Kirk, Mr. Spock, or both. I love Bones! Am I the only one who is very attached to him?"

So tell me your thoughts on McCoy. Because it seems like he's left in the dust so much of the time!

I tried for a few minutes to think of something more to say, but there wasn't anything, so, like. Bye.

Emily

Being Ill and Finding the Nerd Things That Make Up For It

Waiting and waiting for a bout of illness to fly away so that I can live my life. You know there's like nothing more fun than jumping on the trampoline on an autumn night? Okay, that's what I wish to do. And the stupid lungs won't let me (believe me, I tried).

It seems someone has very generously donated a boatload of Star Trek novels to the local library. A big nerd like me. Isn't that great? I wish I knew who'd done it so I can thank him/her profusely. There are a bunch of Next Generation books, in which I have little interest, but also a bunch of old-time Trekkie novels. The library, I guess, chose not to put them on the shelf (WHY NOT?!), but rather the "For Sale" cart. Oh well, suits me fine. I just wish other nerds could enjoy them. Or people who weren't nerds and were then converted. I can convert you, if you want.

Yesterday I submitted something to Teen Ink magazine (wish me luck). I told my mother and she said, "I thought you didn't write poetry anymore." To which I replied, "I thought so, too."

My creativity was semi-sapped when my ex-father was living with us. The abuse that went on at home can ruin a person. But something seems to have happened within the last week. Maybe the bronchitis triggered some sort of Word Juice and brought me to write real poetry again.

Since I have no schoolwork to do for now, what with the doctor telling me to do as little as possible, I guess I'll go back to doing my nerd things.

Emily

Inside

The library is quiet today. Rain is coming down outside. It is a miserable day. Why isn't everyone coming to the library to turn it into a happy day?

Emily