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Oct. 14th, 2005 04:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
clo_againThere are the two most beautiful little rats in the pet shop in town. The only thing that stopped me coming home with them today was knowing that I had a birthday cake for a flatmate from last year to carry home and I couldn't manage a cage and two rats as well. I asked the guy there about keeping them, how much it would cost and such and really, once I've set the cage and everything up - which should cost me around £60, rats included - it's going to cost me less than £15, probably less than £10 per month to keep them, which is *way* better than I could've hoped. After seeing a girl with a dog on the bus into town, I *really* want a real pet here in Lancaster. And not like the fish that don't even pretend to be listening to you and get water everywhere anytime you have to clean them or move them. Rats would be much easier to transport in a shoe box, not so much on the train but the fish would be *impossible* to take by train, so it's not any harder than them. The cage is a managable size until they get bigger, at which point I might have to shuffle my room around a little to fit it in but I have a ton of room under my desk. I'm definitely not planning on breeding them, so that limits all the fuss of that. I'm here pretty much most of the time and will be for most of the year since my course pretty much involves me sitting around and reading.
I love rats. They're so pretty and these two are especially sweet, the white and brown mix I want. I've been thinking about this for months, so it's not just going to be an idle whim like the phase I went through for a few weeks of wanting a budgie. The only problem I can see right now is that we're going down to Cardiff for a couple of days in December and I don't know anyone who could feed them while we're not there. :-/ Oh, that and 'rents will hit the roof. So I'm kinda glad I didn't just come home with them today because then I would've thought of all these things when it was too late and probably gone crazy worrying. Hhhmmm.
But they're so *gorgeous*. >_< I want them.
A flatmate with a very bad cold just came to visit me. I'm not good with sick people. I was practically backing away across the room. Even worse, I can't open my window to get some fresh air in here now she's gone because they're doing something I don't even want to think about to the drains in the car park outside and not only is the noise awful, there's a distinctly unpleasant smell. For brand new buildings, these damn flats have way too many problems. Like my internet not working for hours this afternoon, though I'm inclined to blame the Stupid Network-People for that.
But on the good side of News From My Life, I just found out one of the books I was worrying about reading isn't actually as long as I thought and may be easier to read by next Wednesday than I was anticipating. Plus I'm slowly crossing stuff off my 'to-do' list and getting on top of all my crazy deadlines somewhat, so that's good. Once I've done the reading I promised myself I'd do today and maybe sorted out my CW crits a little, I'm going to let myself fic. But to get there tonight, I need to go back and do some work now.
It never ends.
Clo
I love rats. They're so pretty and these two are especially sweet, the white and brown mix I want. I've been thinking about this for months, so it's not just going to be an idle whim like the phase I went through for a few weeks of wanting a budgie. The only problem I can see right now is that we're going down to Cardiff for a couple of days in December and I don't know anyone who could feed them while we're not there. :-/ Oh, that and 'rents will hit the roof. So I'm kinda glad I didn't just come home with them today because then I would've thought of all these things when it was too late and probably gone crazy worrying. Hhhmmm.
But they're so *gorgeous*. >_< I want them.
A flatmate with a very bad cold just came to visit me. I'm not good with sick people. I was practically backing away across the room. Even worse, I can't open my window to get some fresh air in here now she's gone because they're doing something I don't even want to think about to the drains in the car park outside and not only is the noise awful, there's a distinctly unpleasant smell. For brand new buildings, these damn flats have way too many problems. Like my internet not working for hours this afternoon, though I'm inclined to blame the Stupid Network-People for that.
But on the good side of News From My Life, I just found out one of the books I was worrying about reading isn't actually as long as I thought and may be easier to read by next Wednesday than I was anticipating. Plus I'm slowly crossing stuff off my 'to-do' list and getting on top of all my crazy deadlines somewhat, so that's good. Once I've done the reading I promised myself I'd do today and maybe sorted out my CW crits a little, I'm going to let myself fic. But to get there tonight, I need to go back and do some work now.
It never ends.
Clo
