Killed today. I was mowing the lawn, and there was a little rabbit in the grass right in front of me. It scared the crap out of me at first, but then when I realized what it was I walked up to it. It was lying flat on its side, giving these really infrequent short breaths. There was a fly crawling around on its skin, burrowing into its fur like flies do with corpses. I stroked its fur with my finger and it didn’t move. The little guy was obviously far past recovery and probably in pain. And what am I going to do, take it to the vet?
So, I figured the humane thing to do would be to kill it and bury it. It wasn’t fun, especially having indirectly killed eatso a week ago. I won’t get into the details, but let’s just say the most humane way of killing a little rabbit is not the most pleasant way. Sigh.
In other, nicer news, I finished my initial HTML mockups for the Daily Jolt picture pages. They need to be made a good bit more consistent with the rest of the site, but there are some nice pages in there and they are a good start. Now I just need access to the server so I can get an idea of how things work over there and I can start doing the architecture stuff.
Boom boom boom, these my life bullets. I decided not to move up to Boston just yet. I haven’t found any apartments I’ve fallen in love with yet, and there’s really not a lot of sense in moving up there until I can work at the Jolt headquarters, which won’t be until some time in August.
My little project is hung. I am having a hard time getting the preferred size of GTK widgets, which is essential for doing layout, which is what I want to work on next. I suppose I could postpone it for a while by not using the Gnome Canvas and just using a grid layout for the time being. Well, regardless I posted a question to the gtk-sharp-list so hopefully someone can straighten me out.
And finally, socially: going to see Niamh tomorrow! Ran with Tracy the other day and had dinner with her, her boyfriend Paul, and Sohrob. Supped with Ben and Meaghan on Saturday, which was awesome. I missed having those two around. Also hit a party at Gil and Eric’s on Saturday, which was fun. Drank a fair bit (for me) but had a fun time anyway. Talked with Ben quite a bit and got some apartment advice from Jay who is going to Harvard for grad school! He sounds like he’s really getting into the thick of what he wants to study which is cool. I feel like I’ve been around Jay a bunch but never really gotten to talk/hang out with him. Maybe if we’re both in Cambridge we’ll end up hanging out sometime. We shall see.
Bedtime. My sleep schedule is fubar. Must right it.
