Bad day yesterday

Last night Delirium, our fawn hooded rat, who has had some tumors for a couple of months now, started hemorrhaging. We had to take her to the vet and have her put to sleep. My own vet is about an hour away so I couldn't get her there before they closed so I called someone close by and took her there. She saw Dr. Smith at the Bay Country Veterinary Hospital, who was very kind and gentle. Dr. Smith gave her some gas before the shot so that she didn't feel any pain.

I was very impressed with everyone at the hospital, especially since we weren't planning on coming there again and we were there for the most depressing visit a pet can have. The doctor and her staff were extremely nice and efficient.

Their address is http://www.baycountryvets.com/ in case you're looking for someone in the Crownsville, MD area.

This is some seriously weird shit

Blood Money: Life, Death, and Plasma on the Las Vegas Strip published in Electronic Journal of Sociology 1999 is seriously bizarre. The beginning is very dry but once you get into the meat of the actual visit to the plasma center the tone changes and becomes surreal and overblown. It's still an interesting read, if you're in the right mood.

Perhaps it says something about me that the parts I found most disturbing was the insistence that Dante's Inferno was published in 1980...