Sunburned

So Alan was here all week. I think we made him spend more time outside than he has in years. We spent Monday getting drunk on our porch while Tony cooked a bunch of stuff, Tuesday in NYC, Wednesday at Tony's parents (getting drunk, as often happens there) and then going home to watch The Fountain (which I bought - YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!), Thursday going to Pirates and then watching an anime Alan brought with him - he's completely otaku - and then yesterday down in Philly, followed by more anime. He left this afternoon and has left the last three dvd's of the anime for Tony and I to finish.

The anime itself is Evangelion - I'll post a reaction to it (aka, what all I figure out) once we're done watching it. We don't have too many episodes left, and no one's died yet. That should change shortly from what Alan was telling us. They keep referencing the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Book of Revelation. I'm feeling like it would help to know those better, though thanks to Milton, I recognized the names of the so-called 'angels' as being names of Jewish devils.

It's fairly hot here, and being in a second floor apartment means it's been hard to cool off at all without running the a/c constantly. Yet again I'm dying for central air. At least I'll get a bit of it when in KS in a few weeks...

Nunk's condition doesn't seem to have changed AT ALL in a week, so we're taking her to the vet that seems to know what the hell she's doing on Wednesday. I wish it was earlier, but the vet at the clinic earlier in the week is the one that doesn't seem to have a fucking clue what he's doing. The one Nunk's going to see on Wednesday is the one that finally came up with a diagnosis. We took Alan over to MayFair (Allentown's yearly craft fair) for corn dogs and funnel cake before he left, and they were handing out samples of Science Diet. After a week and a half of a pair of cats who have been refusing to eat the dry food we've been leaving out for them (I'm not sure I blame them-I think it smells like cardboard), we took some of the samples and the cats are finally eating something other than tuna. There's a little bit of rice in it which I'm a bit concerned about (the Lamb and Rice food seems to have been the problem), but maybe it will turn out to be okay. We're going to ask the vet on Wednesday what she thinks the kitties should be on. Piggers, meanwhile, did her first ever complete back flip last night while jumping after her toy. She's doing beautifully.

We're grilling shrimp and asparagus and having some bean spread for dinner tonight (and a bit of wine, perhaps), and tomorrow we're going out for ice cream with Tony's parents (not sure why, but I'm not turning down ice cream!!) and starting on ribs for Monday. Monday we're going over to Tony's parents - I'm grilling ribs and they're doing pretty much everything else, I think. After that, though, I really feel like going on a diet or something - while Alan was here we were eating a lot of fried stuff and generally not as healthy (we were eating out a lot after Monday - and since it's Allentown, the food is horribly unhealthy. A cheesesteak will never win a health food award) -- I'm ready for dance on Tuesday and some serious vegetable time.

That's that for now - I'm just starting book four of Harry for the first read-through of the summer. I'll probably do another one right before they come out. I'd like to re-read Tolkien as well, and I have some Middle English romances to get through as I search for diss topics.

Oh, and I'm sunburned from being out all week.

And I had that job interview at Arcadia yesterday morning - I won't find out if I'm teaching Freshman Comp at Lehigh or Ancient/Medieval lit at Arcadia for another three weeks. I'm praying for the latter.