What Is Up

Gau is in for his surgery. The earliest I will be able to pick him up is Wednesday, so he'll have two nights of hospitalization ($$$). I'm going to Boston this weekend, so I've gotten him a cat sitter who'll look after him and make sure he's okay. He's going to have to get stitches out next Wednesday or so.

IT IS SO COLD. The L train crapped out this morning, so I walked to the J M Z after dropping Gau off. I'm still warming up.

Artificial Organisms

Would an art/org be the ultimate invasive species? Everytime I think of completely artifical organisms, I think of Frank Miller's RONIN and the weird AI-controlled synthetic green blobs that started taking everything over. Can't ever escape that Frankenstein complex... all I end up imagining are nightmare scenarios where "the blob" is created and tries to eat everything - or just ends up "taking over" because it's not part of the natural environment and has no predators and such.

Gau Okay!

Gau has come through the surgery and is doing well. "Already hissing and growling" as the vet put it. They originally told me he might come home on Wednesday, but now they're saying I should call tomorrow morning to see if he can come home tomorrow evening.

I hope this doesn't change him. I will never forgive myself if that happens.