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Well, that was a busy weekend.
P-Con was wonderful. Great fun, lovely people and lots of interesting stuff going on. Paul Cornell![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
paulcornell2 ) was guest of honour, and other guests included C.E. Murphy (mizkit ) the newly dubbed "Queen of P-Con", Charlie Stross (autopope ), Chaz Brenchley (desperance ), Juliet McKenna, Leah Moore and John Reppion (and many many more - I have had little sleep this weekend and lots of running around. I'm tired...)
Highlights included lunch with Juliet, Mizkit, Chaz and others (me looking somewhat surprised to be at that particular table) in Fallon & Byrnes, hot chocolate (a large number of hot chocolates) withirishkate and wyvernfriend , and being able to talk to Paul Cornell about Family of Blood. :D The final Mutiny of the Phoenix panel, a free for all Q&A of some of the guests, was a scream, as was the guest of honour interview where slovobooks interviewed Paul and reduced some of us to tears of laughter. And as a plus, I got to put faces and actual people to a lot of people I've met on here (or heard rumours about *j*) like peadarog ! And I met lots of new peoplw too! All in all I had a wonderful time. I have some pictures, but they are kind of blurry so I am waiting to see if I can nab some from irishkate .
Saturday night was alsoe_w_h 's birthday party which was wonderful. We had a fab time and it is not often we get to stay out until 4am anymore (the clocks went forward so we had help).
The cat, on the other hand, did officially NOT have a good weekend. He spent Saturday night and part of Sunday at my parents, which would have been fine had he not decided that stitches were not for him. So now, adding to the indignity of being knocked out, shaved, stitched, acting like a drunk on getting home so everyone laughed at him (Laughed!) he now has to wear a fairly unflattering large white conical collar because he kept trying to unstitch himself as only cats can.
The reaction to this worked out as follows:
1) walk backwards to see if escape is possible.
2) hide.
3) scape it off everything in sight.
4) sulk and plot revenge.
Oh really. Yes. Look.
This is the face that I left behind when I went to P-Con on Sunday morning.
Soe_w_h took him home. In order to do this he had to take the collar off to get him in the basket, which was FINE by the cat. Unfortunately he then had to get it back on him at home. The cat responded to this travesty of proper behaviour by enacting his masterplan of vengeance: peeing everywhere and knocking over plantpots like a teenager in a tantrum.
So, the cat hates us all and clearly has other revenges in store. I take him back to the vet this evening and please God she'll tell me he doesn't have to wear the instument of torture anymore because he is clearly miserable and cranky. Not only must he stay indoors but he has to look like an alien too.
And I don't want that face up there looking at me again!
P-Con was wonderful. Great fun, lovely people and lots of interesting stuff going on. Paul Cornell
paulcornell2 ) was guest of honour, and other guests included C.E. Murphy (mizkit ) the newly dubbed "Queen of P-Con", Charlie Stross (autopope ), Chaz Brenchley (desperance ), Juliet McKenna, Leah Moore and John Reppion (and many many more - I have had little sleep this weekend and lots of running around. I'm tired...)Highlights included lunch with Juliet, Mizkit, Chaz and others (me looking somewhat surprised to be at that particular table) in Fallon & Byrnes, hot chocolate (a large number of hot chocolates) with
irishkate and wyvernfriend , and being able to talk to Paul Cornell about Family of Blood. :D The final Mutiny of the Phoenix panel, a free for all Q&A of some of the guests, was a scream, as was the guest of honour interview where slovobooks interviewed Paul and reduced some of us to tears of laughter. And as a plus, I got to put faces and actual people to a lot of people I've met on here (or heard rumours about *j*) like peadarog ! And I met lots of new peoplw too! All in all I had a wonderful time. I have some pictures, but they are kind of blurry so I am waiting to see if I can nab some from irishkate .Saturday night was also
e_w_h 's birthday party which was wonderful. We had a fab time and it is not often we get to stay out until 4am anymore (the clocks went forward so we had help).The cat, on the other hand, did officially NOT have a good weekend. He spent Saturday night and part of Sunday at my parents, which would have been fine had he not decided that stitches were not for him. So now, adding to the indignity of being knocked out, shaved, stitched, acting like a drunk on getting home so everyone laughed at him (Laughed!) he now has to wear a fairly unflattering large white conical collar because he kept trying to unstitch himself as only cats can.
The reaction to this worked out as follows:
1) walk backwards to see if escape is possible.
2) hide.
3) scape it off everything in sight.
4) sulk and plot revenge.
Oh really. Yes. Look.
This is the face that I left behind when I went to P-Con on Sunday morning.So
e_w_h took him home. In order to do this he had to take the collar off to get him in the basket, which was FINE by the cat. Unfortunately he then had to get it back on him at home. The cat responded to this travesty of proper behaviour by enacting his masterplan of vengeance: peeing everywhere and knocking over plantpots like a teenager in a tantrum.So, the cat hates us all and clearly has other revenges in store. I take him back to the vet this evening and please God she'll tell me he doesn't have to wear the instument of torture anymore because he is clearly miserable and cranky. Not only must he stay indoors but he has to look like an alien too.
And I don't want that face up there looking at me again!
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Poor kitty! You really are abusing that cat too much--he says so! :D
No, hang in there, he's lucky to have you.
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Poor kitty. He will remember all this, I know.
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And my deepest sympathy for the poor kitty. (And you, for having to clean up after his, um, revenge). Surprisingly, with all my cats, we never had to wear one of those. Probably thanks to homeopathy, because our cuts close very fast.
I hope he'll feel better soon.
BTW, he's gorgeous.
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As a dog person I cannot imagine how you tolerate a pet who pisses as an act of revenge. Even if he is beautiful. :)
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My experiences with dogs has been they don't need a reason. ;) He is calmer about it this evening and even purred for me.
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1) walk backwards to see if escape is possible.
2) hide.
3) scape it off everything in sight.
4) sulk and plot revenge.
Oh yes, I know all about this. Gabriel kept getting her foot stuck in hers, while Lucifer developed a fetish for people stroking inside the hood while she dribbled everywhere. She still loves to be stroked on the face but fortunately she's got the dribbling under control!
And - Juliet McKenna, eep!
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Just went for the checkup and its going well but the collar has to stay. He was mightily relieves to go back in his baset and come home, didn't struggle *too* much getting the collar back on, and is not stretched out on the floor pretending to be a rug.
The vet laughed about the revenge urination and thinks it was definitely his way of giving us the two fingers!
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