cat fighting

A great day until about five minutes ago, when I discovered that Kit has what looks like a bite wound on her flank. Have called the vet to try and get her in tomorrow after cleaning it and dumping a wad of antibiotic cream on it. She's in good spirits and eating (I never would have known she had an issue if I hadn't felt it on her), so I think we're ok waiting because I can't afford to go the emergency vet route. Hell, even as cheap as the vets are around here, we're going to have to dip into savings to get her taken care of. Or the credit card. Oy.

Likely culprit is Ratchet, who feuds with Kit at every available opportunity. But this is the first time it's come to anything this serious - mostly it's just a lot of yelling and then one of us squirts Ratchet with the water bottle and he goes and sulks under the bed for a while.

Yeesh.

recent events

Not planning on posting anything about the earthquakes in Japan, except to say that I'm deeply saddened by the whole damn thing. Most of my mind was taken up with worry for my cousin, who is over there right now with her husband and a whole passel of his clan. She's had Facebook access through the whole event, and has posted some photos (weirdly, ones using that iPhone app that makes them all look like polaroids from 1981, which makes the whole thing feel like it's a different event from what I can see on the nightly news.)

She was in a subway train, and described it as feeling like a terrifying theme park ride, but they made it back to their hotel without too much trouble. Apparently the second earthquake was taken by them to be an aftershock, since there have been so many of them. They fly back to Manila on Monday.