Mini Posts, Volume I

Mini Posts are a selection of thoughts that are too complex for “Random Thoughts” and not complex enough for entire posts.  Like me, they are somewhere in between.

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Rocky the Dog Fights Another Day

Rocky recovered from his surgery yesterday. I picked him up after work and he was anxious as hell to get out of the vet’s office.  I think he’s had enough of that place, and I don’t blame him one bit.  When he got in the car it was clear he was still a bit wobbly from the anesthetic.  It’s not that he wasn’t able to get in, he was just confused as to how things worked.

When we got home he wandered around for quite a bit.  I dragged his bed from the bedroom to the living room, hoping he’d curl up on that and rest.  He just kept wandering, like he was looking for something that he hadn’t quite figured out yet.  Eventually he laid down…but on the floor, not on the giant bed I dragged from the bedroom.  Of course.

He’s quite the fighter, that dog.  Two surgeries in one year is a lot to deal with for a human, let alone a dog.  And I could tell he was going to be just fine when I fed him 1/4 his normal meal as the vet instructed and he looked at me like I was crazy.

The cats sniffed around him quite a bit and Lucy, Rocky’s secret BFF, kept trying to figure out what was wrong.  It was entirely too cute for words.

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High School Never Ends

This past weekend was my ten year high school reunion.  I didn’t go.  I know, I know.  I probably should have.  But I just felt out of place.  None of my immediate friends were going, despite my urging them to just come with me for a bit.  And the people that were there were mostly people I haven’t seen in, well, ten years.

I think more than that, though, was the fact that I’m in this in between stage in life.  How do you easily explain to someone that yes, I’m a lawyer, yes, I could have a career and not look back but wait, I’ve decided to go back to school and try again?  I just didn’t feel like getting into that conversation with people…let alone people that I may or may not have cared for in the first place.

I wasn’t awfully awkward in high school.  I think I had the right amount of awkwardness.  Some of us had a bit more, some of us had a bit less.  I think I fell somewhere in the middle.  But the idea of seeing people that I used to think of as the untouchables mingling with the common folk…well, I guess it was just too much for my sensitive soul.

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Award Time

If you’re a member of 20 Something Bloggers (and if you’re not, why aren’t you?), please vote in the 2010 Bootlegger Award Nominations.  This round of voting closes on December 11, 2009.  And that part of me that was socially awkward in high school would appreciate any love you could throw my way.