Stacy Horn

Buddy’s going back and forth (diarrhea/no diarrhea) so I’m picking up some more medication this morning. It’s not a matter of life and death though, so I’m not feeling insane. His appetite is mostly good, which is a positive sign.

I’ve also been doing my big yearly holiday cleaning for the past two days. It’s a week earlier than I would normally do it, but I need the mood-enhancingness of it. I’ve got another day of work to do.

I’m also contemplating making something called pumpkin gingerbread loaf. It just sounds like the most perfect dessert of the non-berry variety in the world, plus the way my apartment would smell! I don’t know if I’m up for it though. I don’t cook so I would have to buy every single ingredient, I have nothing in the house, and I’d also have to buy a pan. It does sound cosy and delicious. What to do??

Here is Buddy, the IBS King of New York.

This is me saying to Finn, “Who is the cutest cat in the whole wide world,” and him formulating an answer.

Actually, that’s his bask face. He’s basking in the love.

Meanwhile, Buddy is on the couch resting. All his blood tests are normal and the vet says it’s a flare-up of his IBS and to up the dose of the medicine I give him for that. I’m also going to try the B12 shot that Melissa suggested. I need to buy a scale so I can keep on top of his weight. But this is all hopefully addressable, so he should be okay. Poor little guy.

I feel like a semi-sane human again who can live her life. I’m doing the Gevalia Coffee chat at 10am. To participate go here for instructions.

Buddy, who has IBS, is sicker than I thought. He was doing better, but not so much lately and when I took him to the vet yesterday he already had lost two more pounds!! That is a lot for a cat. I’m waiting for blood test results which should be back by noon today. The doctor gave him a shot for his diarrhea so he should be feeling better. I’m trying not to panic. But who am I kidding, I’m worried.

I took this picture last night. It’s of the pizza place I always stop in on my way home from choir practice. It’s next to the famous Village Vanguard. I always feel a little funny when there’s a long line outside the club. I’m getting pizza — they’re going to hear great music.

I’m doing a live chat sponsored by Gevalia Coffee this Thursday. More info here.

You can talk to me or this guy, pictured here on my lap, LIVE. Seriously. I literally took that picture seconds ago. He’s still here on my lap now, right this second, as I type. He will probably be back here on Thursday.

Alright. Back to work.

Or cat petting.

Or reading O Pioneers! Which I should be done with already. It’s the tiniest of novels.

The Opium Live event I did yesterday was a lot of fun. I was very impressed with the two guys who run this, James J. Williams III and Todd Zuniga, and I’d really love to see this show continue and grow.

And I was blown away by the guy who did the event with me, performance artist Joseph Keckler. Do not miss him whenever you see him listed for anything. From the bio: “his shows have been presented at such venues as The New Museum, La MaMa, Spiegelworld, The Stone, Performance Studies Int’l, and SF MOMA. He has been described as “studly” by the Village Voice and “psychotic” by New York Press.”

And here are more pictures from the USS New York.  This morning I decided I didn’t like most of my pictures.  But here are a few. This was walking up onto the deck.

Sailors taking pictures of other sailors.

A cigarette break.

A shot of the city from the deck.

Okay, this was taken during the ceremony. We were actually sitting in a building on a pier next to the ship. I took this through a window looking towards the ship.

Some guys and a big gun. I think that’s a gun. A missile launcher?

This last one was very close to the kind of pictures I used to take in college, when I wanted to be a photographer. It’s very nostalgic for me.