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Dec. 16th, 2004 09:25 pmThe city of Fort Worth puts a lot of its adoptable animals up on Petfinder, and I just looked for my cat on it. Here she is. :)
And to answer the couple of poeple who've asked in comments what I've named her, I got overly ambitious and obsessed with Nubian queens, so now she is saddled with a moniker that's longer than she is. There's a nickname though, because all my family's animals have long names that are shortened. So she's named after Neferukekashta, who was one of the wives of Piye, who was the first Nubian pharaoh of Egypt. Nefer for short, which has connotations of "beauty," "good," "youth," "happiness," and all sorts of meanings like that. Yes, it's the same word as in Nefertiti and Nefertari.
It doesn't really fit her yet, but since there's only the one cat in my apartment, she's mostly just going to be "the cat," "hey kitty," or "squirt" to me.
I forgot to mention that on Friday night I went with my friend Toby to see the Trans-Siberian Orchestra in concert, and it was great. Well, except for the fire alarm that went off twenty minutes into the show, causing partial evacuation of the place. They started announcing it was a false alarm after half the place had been evacuated, so we all filed back in. Good show - the first third Christmas-themed with Christmasmusic alternating with a sort of typical bog-standard Christmas down-and-out story, the second third was mostly rock, and the final third was when they really let loose with classical piece with rock arrangements and pyrotechnics.
Beethoven's 5th is one of my favorite piece and I have long thought that it could only be improved with the heavy application of multiple fireballs, and my suscpicions were proved correct.
And as the leader of the band said, a cigarette in the bathroom sets off the alarms, yet with enough pyrotechnic firepower to take over a small city, there's not a peep. Go fig.
And to answer the couple of poeple who've asked in comments what I've named her, I got overly ambitious and obsessed with Nubian queens, so now she is saddled with a moniker that's longer than she is. There's a nickname though, because all my family's animals have long names that are shortened. So she's named after Neferukekashta, who was one of the wives of Piye, who was the first Nubian pharaoh of Egypt. Nefer for short, which has connotations of "beauty," "good," "youth," "happiness," and all sorts of meanings like that. Yes, it's the same word as in Nefertiti and Nefertari.
It doesn't really fit her yet, but since there's only the one cat in my apartment, she's mostly just going to be "the cat," "hey kitty," or "squirt" to me.
I forgot to mention that on Friday night I went with my friend Toby to see the Trans-Siberian Orchestra in concert, and it was great. Well, except for the fire alarm that went off twenty minutes into the show, causing partial evacuation of the place. They started announcing it was a false alarm after half the place had been evacuated, so we all filed back in. Good show - the first third Christmas-themed with Christmasmusic alternating with a sort of typical bog-standard Christmas down-and-out story, the second third was mostly rock, and the final third was when they really let loose with classical piece with rock arrangements and pyrotechnics.
Beethoven's 5th is one of my favorite piece and I have long thought that it could only be improved with the heavy application of multiple fireballs, and my suscpicions were proved correct.
And as the leader of the band said, a cigarette in the bathroom sets off the alarms, yet with enough pyrotechnic firepower to take over a small city, there's not a peep. Go fig.
