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Buddy is at the vet now, getting a sonogram, and blood and urine tests. He’s in really bad shape. All his medications stopped working and he’s been throwing up and diarrhetic since around 4am.  And now he’s suddenly developed a serious heart murmur.

Meanwhile, in an effort to bulk Buddy up (who lost a pound and a half in the past two weeks) I’ve made Finney as big as a house and I’ve probably given him diabetes. Here he is peering down from the armoire.

So I’m a wreck with worry. Poor Buddy.  He was so sick and miserable he wouldn’t even eat babyfood.

I tried to go to the concert last night but it was a mob scene. That should have occurred to me. There was a long line, and then even more of us milling around, not quite ready to accept that we weren’t getting in. A man called out that there was a waiting list, but it was very long already.

So yeah. Poor planning on my part.

I’m trying to work up the energy to go to a concert tonight. It’s only a couple of blocks away, and this is the program:

– William Averitt’s Afro-American Fragments, based on texts by Langston Hughes.

– Classic spirituals and shape-note tunes, in arrangements by Marylou Jackson, Alice Parker, Brad Holmes.

– Choral works by Undine Smith Moore, Adolphus Hailstork, Ronald Stabeli, Frank Ticheli.

– The world premiere of Appalachian Requiem, by Michael Conley (WVC Musical Director) with chorus, soloists, string quartet, hammered-dulcimer, and piano.

I’d be crazy to miss it, right?? Here’s another picture from the park the other day. This is where I turned off 5th and went into the park.

The one downside about living downtown—we don’t have the park. I love walking alongside it almost as much as inside it. It makes me feel regal.

Buddy update: He’s been on the metronidazole for ten days and it hasn’t had any effect. I’m going to call the vet today to discuss.

I don’t get it. Most of my friends said the story wasn’t much, but the special effects were amazing, so why didn’t the 3D blow me away? And I saw it in the best IMAX theatre in the city. We also got there WAY early to get the best seats. (In the back in the middle.) Well I took pictures. Here is when there was only a few of us.

Now the theatre is filling up!

And this is looking inside the new Apple store, on our way back down to the street.