MsRad

so last week there was a groupon deal for laser tattoo removal through Asta Center for Cosmetic & Laser Skin Care. while the price made me tempted to buy in, their website looked a little too sketch for me to really trust their work. it seemed a little like it was too good to be true...

did anyone else buy the deal or have heard about their quality of work?

well shoot! i think if Tuesday then is better for everyone else, then you dudes should stick to it. maybe i can meet up another night with @gougetheeyes and his gal...

i think i might be back. but i can't get too distracted as this semester is the first one doing "real" science and math.

August has been a blast! i saw 3 rattlesnakes, learned how to mist-net and handle bats while camping in Tahoe National Forrest, handled 6 bats (5 on the trip and one last Friday during my volunteer shift at Wildcare), and performed my first necropsy yesterday on a opossum that had been attacked by a dog (or at least i'm guessing that due to the large wound it had). it's all kind of creepy crawly science shit, but it's been life changing and i love it!

Tuesday, unfortunately, does not work for me. I have chem lecture/lab and it goes until 9:15 in east oakland. If I miss two labs, I get an automatic D in the class, and I REALLY need to pass this class with flying colors.

I noticed that this thread nor the facebook group hasn't been updated in a while... does anyone need help coordinating/planning?

@gougetheeyes, those dates still work for you?

sometimes it's not so cute. a kitten became very ill over a 12 hour period, and suddenly died on my shift tonight. this is the sad side of my job, though him dying was much better than him crying in agony and having trouble breathing. we've lost two this week, both really little neos, about 2 weeks old and all who are fairly sick with something in their GIT track, could be parasites, could be infection, too young to find out more. started out with 7 and now down to 5. i'm hoping they'll survive through this next week, because at week 3, then we can really get down to what the problem might be. their systems are just too small right now to be able to do more. we can only treat the symptoms and guess at the cause right now.

yeah there's been a lot of kittens, 3 of them who were at my house for 3 weeks. they're really cute, but very smelly, and somewhat stressful. i have a pup now too, Coleslaw, who keeps me very busy.

do you really think this guy gets all that much?

i have two roommates now with full hand tattoos and basically nothing else (ok, one of them has a crappy upper arm tattoo, but that's it). one of them is in a master's program at my old college, the other does not have a job and is drowning in school debt. the one in the master's program has a portrait of her dog on each hand and his name across her knuckles, the other has a v on his right hand, and a gun on his left (v/gun=vegan, get it?). i don't particularly like either tattoo, but the portraits/lettering are better in quality than the v/gun. i don't think of it much now, but it's kind of weird to be the most heavily tattooed person in the house, and the least visibly tattooed person too.

stupid ways i hurt myself usually involves baking cookies... or hot water. recently, it involved hot water and my new pup. she tried scratching her neck while lying dangerously close to the edge of the couch, her back towards the edge. i was sitting next to her with a cup of steaming hot water that had just been poured from the kettle on the stove, and just as i said to her "you're going to fall off the couch" she looked at me like "oh shit!" and fell, but in the process decided that flailing her legs would work as an attempt to keep her balance. my cup was kicked due to the flailing, and hot water landed all over my legs, missing my crotch by mere inches (thank fuckin' god). it's still healing.

i'm in even though i haven't been posting here.... keep me updated!

Babs and Dari sent me over here. i guess i sort of felt overwhelmed by all the arguing/debating that was happening on here, and on top of that, i had school and homework so i wanted to focus on that.

now it looks like i won't be able to make it to the pre-party either. oh well. c'est la vie.

i just finished season 3 yesterday. it's pretty good. season 2 wasn't as good as the others, but season 3 brought me back in.

Squash is takin it ova.

I didnt even get squash this week. I got tomoatos though... do you want some of those?

i just read this. i always want tomatoes.

i can't stop laughing. i can't even believe this guy is real.

paula deen.

ya fucked it up!!!!

i didn't name them!!!

and where's my motherfuckin' squash!?

@Johnny

keep in mind you could spend double or triple of what you originally paid if you don't like the results and have to get it lasered off or covered up. i don't know, but the extra $60-100 for gas and a hotel room is way cheaper than another $300-500 or more to get a tattooed fixed.

where in florida do you live? i'm sort of surprised Ursula isn't all over this

Does he also not give a shit?

well we thought she didn't, but it turns out her sister Honeybear doesn't give a shit more... bad judgement call on our part.

i ain't saying he's a gold digger...

oh and we now have a kitten at work named honeybadger.

two words: vagina panties.

I'm proud to be a working class tattooed dirtbag whose beer of choice is Nattie Light.

Nattie Light brings me back to puking when i was 14.

i can make it to the pre-party, but it looks like i'm going to miss the actual convention due to work. unless i can make it over to it, and back before 3 one of those days.

I still got a box of cassettes. I can't seem to part with them.

i still buy them at thrift stores when i'm in need of new music since my car has a cassette deck. $.25 is so cheap!