beloved beowulf obituary & notes
my dearly beloved kitten (9 years old) died on saturday, july 27th at 10:15am. he was very sick and had been suffering for a while, but would have suffered more if we hadn't made this choice now. for the past couple of months i've been getting up at 6am to give him meds, and then again at 6pm. i didn't like having to do it but it was also a routine that i'm kind aimless without now. i was terrified to get a diabetes diagnosis in february for him because i knew it would change both of our lives, and it did. i can't say i'm grateful but it ended up being more manageable than i thought it would be. unfortunately, everything else kind of spiraled out of control for him health-wise.
he was such a good cat and he didn't deserve to get so sick. he was very shy but also loud when he wanted to be (he was a big screamer, and made sure we knew when it was time for a snack), and was considered a sort of microcelebrity in my home because it was so rare that guests would see him. he was also such a soft cat (russian blue), and he would sleep through most of the day curled up on my mom's bed, trying to stay in the box of sun that came in from skylight. we watched the first season of the bear together a few years ago, in the middle of july. i'll miss him more than anyone can ever imagine but it's okay because i know he's in kitty heaven and/or haunting me as we speak. my sweet and silly wulfy...
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because it's just been such a long time of taking care of a sick cat i feel like i'm only finally starting to enjoy my summer now, which sucks because school starts again soon. which i am not happy about. to say the least. on the plus side i'm finally getting some more reading in. i caved and ordered like 20 books from the library before finishing the ones i have at home. oh well! as of last night at 12am i finished annihilation, which was horrifying and also i should NOT have finished it at midnight, bad decision, but it was sooo good. i am excited to read the rest of the series soon.
i've been ordering way too many books off of thriftbooks, because it is absolutely imperative. i don't really buy anything that i haven't read yet unless it's in a series i know i'll like. i pre-ordered the new adventure zone graphic novel from a local store and then found out they'd been bought by barnes and noble so none of the books are being ordered. because of course. they also are not delivering on the Emma Hunsinger book i ordered that i'm incredibly excited about so i just got them both off of my best friend thriftbooks and will cancel the order soon. i also recently got myself a copy of houses that can save the world which i saw in a chicago bookstore when i visited last year and haven't stopped thinking about since. and i completed my 5 worlds collection, which was very exciting because those books have been coming out for SOOO long and i hadn't finished the series. it's such a cute story though and i can't believe i was completely oblivious to the climate change allegory when i read it as a younger person. funny.
i've been insanely artblocked but i'm trying really hard to get back into the swing of things. i have some big projects i need to work on that i will probably upload to gumroad when i finish them. or i don't know. maybe just make them free to download on my site or something.