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It's a sad day today- my apartment mate Boogie's cat Priscilla died last night. It was never established exactly what was wrong with Priscilla (Boogie has CFS, and funds for vet exams and such were limited); she began wasting away a couple of months ago, until... Zorikh told me about it while I was unwinding from the Pennsylvania job; I don't think I'll ever forget the incongruous sound of London Calling pounding away in the background as I tried to console Boogie, who's been alternately sobbing and sleeping since I got home. (Priscilla died while at the vet's office with Boogie, while I was in Pennsylvania; as I still dream of her other cat Midnight occasionally, this is, for me, something of a mercy.) When I come fully awake, in a couple of hours, I'll see how Boogie is doing; between this and Mom's move, has been an incredibly draining week for me. Poor Boogie; I can't imagine what it's been like for her.

random good thing

I just finished listening to U2's 1980-1990 "best of" collection, which does a generally acceptable job of covering that period. It finishes with "All I Want is You," a song I've been doing with Greg of late; as the song faded, I thought how I wished that the collection had included "October," one of my favorite U2 songs. The first song faded, a moment or two passed... and the piano intro for "October" began. Yay, unlisted piano bonus tracks; I needed that little lift just now.