wow, i am *so* smart
So last night I let my landlord’s dog, sweet Bella the pugdog, into my apartment where she met Naima. The thing about pugs is the protruding eyes are dangerous with cats with claws and so I had to hold on to Naima no matter what, afraid to put her down that she might scratch or hurt the dog. I ended up with puncture wounds on both hands — which was really slick, since my students from adolescent lit were coming over for the last class. Chris so kindly bandaged me up but after everyone had left, we took the bandages off to find my left hand swollen to twice its size and my right index finger looking more like a Nathan’s hotdog. After calling my doctor’s afterhours number and hoping beer would be the prescription (it wasn’t — is it ever? dammit!), we ended up late night in the emergency room where I got a tetanus shot and a prescription for antibiotics. The hand and finger are still huge this morning, and Spenser beat the holy hell out of Naima when we got home. Related? Not sure.
Moral of this story? Not sure on this one either. I really would like Naima to be OK with other animals but I guess the moral is that you can’t change someone’s disposition. We were really lucky she and Ed got along as well as they did. And I still love her, although it took both of us a while to sit down together and get the blood out of her fur. (Chris isn’t touching her at this point and I can’t say I blame him).
By the way — all the blogs from class have been added to the links bar on the right. Enjoy!
August 5th, 2006 at 12:55 pm
Randi Travis, old country boy sings a pretty good song about “the road to hell being paved with good intentions”, seems fitting. Hope you are not in too much continued pain and that Naima is thinking twice about biting the hand that feeds her — cats somehow don’t seem as moved by that argument.
Thanks again for hosting us, especially “in your condition” and also a thanks to Chris for moving aside. I enjoyed this class, learned a lot (including about myself), and the last evening was a fitting end to the kind of class you ran.
Also thanks for insights into the program — it was something I sensed and had concerns about. I believe it is possible for Montclair to make a go of it, but it will take self examination and a lot less “territoriality” (is that a word?) on the part of the departments, something higher ed is not known for. Merging these disciplines is the right way to go — educators, no matter their placement need all of this information to be an asset to their students. I know that I am lacking in technology and have begun to seek out classes I need in part because of my exposure to you and Donna DeGennaro — in the end, the kids and I will benefit. I think that regular ed teachers should be exposed to special ed classes and library information as well as technology. History and Math teachers should get technology, reading and library, etc., etc.
Anyway, I am preaching to the choir here (to use one more overused cliche), keep those wounds clean and take care!