Drug Tests and Thanksgiving Vacations

So to tie up the remaining time I had before Thanksgiving Vacation, this drug test thing came up. I needed to get one from an appropriately certified group. Pretty stringent certifications, or at least under low demand in the central coast area - the nearest one was in Salinas >:-|

So I went up to Salinas Monday morning (asap was the key here, apparently) and had a young man shave hairs from a six inch square area on my right leg. Travel time: 2.5hour bus, 1hour walking all the way across salinas, 45min riding home. Time in doctors office actually doing stuff: 3 minutes.

Hrm. Anyway, hair follicle test - they just care about my history.

House hunting will come up later Wednesday. Today I get my new crack, no other plans. I wonder if I'll have talent points before I sleep tonight.

I'm reserving caffeine intake for later :-)

I have a kitten on my arm.

Kittens are cute. My mother's kittens are especially so. Please feel free to ignore the rest of this post if you disagree, because it's nothing more than expressing nigh-fatuous glee in kittens.

Mom apparently decided to start collecting cats again. It was only a matter of time. It started with Captain, who my brother rescued from a fate worse than death. He's gray, long-haired with gorgeous fur, and relatively aloof.

Then came the flood. Two sets of two new cats showed up relatively close to eachother, all from the same family. First, Clancy and Sassy, a tabby and a white, flamepointed furball. Clancy is affectionate and none too bright, and Sassy is noisy, insistent, and likes to lunge at your face (with her face) when you're petting her.

Now, two more cute things which are still rilly tiny - Roots, an even more insistently affectionate tabby (for example, he's now sitting across my trackpad, curled up in my lap), and Zoe, a calico. Calicos are the redheads of the cat world, I swear. Zoe's very energetic, very fickle, very feline.

They play together vigorously allatime. they actually use the cat toys (I first saw Zoe this morning playing king of the hill from the top of a scratching post), and generally act like they're on camera all the time. Cute, and definitely more relaxing than the drama my family occasionally seems to attract.