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Journal: Growth Spurts Narration: My younger cat, Shooby, is about a year old. This means he's finally going into his big growth spurt. He's already too big for my lap as it is, though. / [[Arrows labelled "Really big paws" and "Expert prevention of typing ability"]] / Narration: At this rate, this is what he'll look like...
Journal: Boredom Lately, I've been bored a disproportionate amount of the time. It's not that I have nothing to do, it's just that none of it is terribly appealing. / [[Cat toy]] / [[Dumb but painful DDR-preventing foot injury]] / [[Junk]] / So between napping, video games, and half-assedly cleaning my house (a square...
Journal: Itch Narration: I spent all day today inside because I was covered in spots. The itchy, red kind, all over my arms, legs, and face. / Fluffy: [[thinking]] Gnnh... So... itchy... / Narration: As opposed to the cute, playful skin coloration kind. / Narration: The other night my friend Geoff decided he really...
Journal: Stairs [[Scene: in fluffy's office in grad school. Grad student Tom is in the background, hunched over a laptop.]] / Random dude: Excuse me, do you know where these stairs go? / fluffy: Yes, they go upstairs. / Random dude: Upstairs where? / fluffy: Upstairs to the second floor.
Journal: Jesse Narration: This is my neighbor, Jesse. / Caption: riced out Honda Civic hatchback / Caption: Dur! Pot makes you so smart (and cool!) / Jesse: I am functionally illiterate! / Caption: (Yummy Bud Light!) / Caption: You could fit an entire Pre-Colombian tribe in his pants / Narration: Jesse is an asshole and...
 
Journal: Trip Narration: After last night's Jesse-inspired rum-and-coke-and-phenylalanine festival, I feel like crap. / Caption: note: actually drawn the night before to save time in the morning. I may not actually be hung over. / Narration: Well, time to drive for four hours across the state to visit my family! / Caption:...
Journal: Spa On Saturday, my sister, a college friend of hers, and I went to Ojo Caliente, a spa built around a natural hot spring. / It was pretty relaxing. / Part of the package we got included a "wrap," where after you get hot... / They put you under a warm blanket to "detoxify" you. / [[The view for an hour:...
Journal: Aquatic Automobile Door Prize fluffy: I had a dream that not only did Toyota come out with a low-cost amphibious automobile, but I had won one in a raffle. / [[fluffy is standing in front of an amphibious blue convertible. fluffy has fox ears and a tail.]] / fluffy: So of course, I took it for a spin in the water fountain at the...
Journal: Chain Of Events There's this guy I know, who I'll call Bob (since that's his name). Bob is very eager to make good things happen. / Bob: We need to get more computer graphics going on around here! Are you interested in the idea of starting up a local movie studio? / Note that eagerness does not imply competence. / So...
Journal: Subway [[fluffy is waiting around in the Washington DC subway]] / Woman: Excuse me... / Woman: Does this train go to Metro Center? / fluffy: Yeah, next stop. / Woman: Thanks. / fluffy: Huh. / fluffy: You'd think I lived here. / fluffy: Or know how to read a map.
 
Journal: Searching Delphine: Any other ideas where he could have gone? / fluffy: No... / Delphine: I'm really sorry about this. / fluffy: It's not your fault. / Delphine: But I feel bad about losing your cat. / fluffy: Please don't. You know he does this from time to time. / fluffy: I just wish I had some way of knowing that...
Journal: Children should only be allowed on planes as cargo Boy: <> [[Closes window]] / Girl: [[Looks at fluffy.]] / Behind fluffy: <> / Behind Girl: I wanna play the gameboy! / Behind Girl: It's still my turn! / Behind Girl: No, it's my turn! / Behind Girl: Nuh-uh! / Boy: <> [[Opens window]] / Behind fluffy: <> / Behind...
Journal: Coming home The first thing I saw today when I got home from Pennsylvania: / [[Shooby sitting on the couch]] / I missed you too. :)
Journal: Shoes Caption: I had a job interview today, just a backup in case the job in Pennsylvania falls through. / Caption: This means I had to dress up in nice clothes, including my uncomfortable dress shoes. / fluffy: [[Thinking]] This can't be right. / fluffy's Shoes: <> > / Toby: [[Tail stands straight...
Journal: Things that go splat in the night [[fluffy and Toby are in bed]] / [[Shooby jumps on the bed]] / Shooby: [vomiting next to fluffy's head] HWARGH! <>
 
Journal: Explosion [[Yesterday I decided to try out some fat-free potato chips. It was like a flavor explosion.]] / [[This morning I had an explosion of a different sort.]] / fluffy: In no way did that feel right. / [[So much for the theory that it's "perfectly safe."]] / This Product Contains Olestra. Olestra may cause...
Journal: Rejection fluffy: Don't worry, Toby. I'll let you in once I get the mail. / Toby: [[off-panel]] MROW! / fluffy: Hmm... Spam... Bill I've already paid online... Ooh, something from CTC? Probably my travel reimbursement! Finally... / fluffy: Or maybe not... / Letter: Thank you for your interest in Concurrent...
Journal: Rubik's Cubist Homer Narration: I got my brother a Homer Simpson's Head Rubik's Cube puzzle for Hanukkah. / Narration: Basically a 2x2x2 Rubik's Cube shaped like, well, Homer Simpson's head. / Narration: My brother immediately got it to where he couldn't restore it. / Narration: So I worked on it for a while, while "watching"...
Journal: Scary pizza Narration: I just saw an ad for Pizza Hut which claimed that their Meat Lover's pizza had "practically every meat on the planet." / Pizza Eater: Mmm, processed, homogenized crap! / Narration: Which makes me wonder... / Narration: is this just excessive hyperbole (and a disappointment to anyone who actually...
Journal: Size matters Narration: I just got Shooby back from Delphine's house. / Narration: Don't be alarmed, but I think he's started growing again.
 
Journal: New and improved!!! Narration: What knocks the phone off the hook overnight when you're expecting an important call in the morning... / Narration: Uses the litterbox without covering it up (and then asks to be let out afterwards)... / Narration: Farts with reckless abandon... / fluffy: [[thinking]] Is there a gas leak? / Narration:...
Journal: Welcome to Albuquerque Sign: Albuquerque City Limit / Sign: Elev. 5000 ft / [[Shooby almost fills the back window of the car.]]
Journal: Freejazz fluffy: [[thinking]] Hmmm... Is it a bad sign when the performers aren't even visible? / fluffy: [[thinking]] I wonder if that creaking backstage door is supposed to be part of the percussion. / fluffy: [[thinking]] Probably not. / fluffy: [[thinking]] What is that on the screen? Is it a... oh, I guess...
Journal: Albuquerque winter [[Snow covers the ground, trees, bushes, etc.]] / fluffy: Yay, I missed having snow! I love the... / [[The Sun is shining and the snow is all gone.]] / fluffy: ... winter?
Journal: Shipwrecked Conversation Friend: We should totally have our next party on a boat. Like, I'd be the skipper, and you'd be Gilligan. / Brother: Heh. Yeah. / fluffy: And I could be Mary-Ann. / [[Brother and Friend look at fluffy. fluffy grins and bounces.]] / [[Brother and Friend back away.]] / fluffy: What?
 
Journal: Bad car-ma Computer: Oh yeah, Hoblit, my car's air conditioner is broken, so our drive to Austin will be kinda... warm. / Computer: Ha ha. Get a car with a working AC, LOSER. ;) / Computer: Hey, my car cost as much as two of your car *payments*. / Computer: Yeah, but I'm not...
Journal: Karate lessons, pt. 1 Caption: Thursday, June 17 / Caption: Magnolia Cafe, seating waiting area / Caption; Austin, TX / Sign: [[left arrow]] Restrooms / Bulletin Board Flyers: [[swastika]], "Kittens", [[face]] "$200" "Ford Truck", "Song Fight" / Big Sign on Bulletin Board: KARATE [[left arrow]] / fluffy: [[left]] Karate? In the...
Journal: Catching up is hard to do fluffy: Wow, it's been way too long since we've talked. / Erin: Yeah! Tell us the gossip, like what's been going on in the CS department! / fluffy: Er, I dunno. I quit the PhD program last December. / Erin: Oh. / fluffy: Well, what about you guys? Like, are you two ever going to get married? / Erin: Um,...
Journal: Karate lessons, pt. 2 [[Dr. Worm, Glenn, Hoblit, fluffy, Ken sitting around the table]] / Two hours (and many nachos) later... / fluffy: Ugh, I'm not feeling so good. I'll be right back. / Hoblit: Gotta take another karate lesson? / fluffy: Heh, yeah. / [[fluffy goes back to the 'misc' restroom]] / Fifteen minutes later / fluffy:...
Journal: The payoff, pt. 1 Caption: June 19, 2004, 6:30 PM / Caption: Church of the Friendly Ghost / Caption: 209 Pedernales, Austin, TX / [[fluffy plays guitar and sings]] / fluffy: [[singing]] Life is like a riddle / fluffy: [[singing]] Stuck in the middle / fluffy: [[singing]] I have been such a fool / fluffy: [[singing]] A fool in...
 

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