We got a call from the vet about an hour ago. It seems that he went to neuter Purrrrrbaby, and realized there was something not quite right... PB's not a boy!
I told Jev, laughing my head off over the whole thing, and he asked if the vet had ever seen her before. Yes, we took her in for shots and all that, and I had assumed the vet looked for himself. PB's got a fuzzy rear, so it's a little hard to tell, and I hadn't really looked since we first got her. Oops! Poor, confused child. No wonder she was making such a fuss, she was in heat!
The vet didn't operate today, but will do the surgery in the morning, so we should get our little baby back tomorrow afternoon, or Friday morning at the latest. I miss her, she's such a sweetie. As well as she and Munchie get along though, I could have sworn she was a boy.
On other fronts, I spent some time last night looking around at colleges in the Roanoke area, trying to narrow down ideas on what I want to do with myself. The community college doesn't offer much in the way of English courses... just the basics needed to get an Associate's Degree in another field.
I found a women's college that has what sounds like an excellent English program, but I also found the cost of taking one class, and I started to wonder if maybe I really don't want a degree after all. At least not something strictly in the English and Writing field. At over a thousand dollars a class, and with me not having any idea of what I'd do with that degree once I got it, I just can't see us spending that kind of money.
The more I think about it, the more I like the idea of doing something on the web, as in web design and maintenance. I can take some related courses online with my current year-long ZDU subscription, and possibly take some writing and business classes from Virginia Tech, which are available online as well.
Taking online classes defeats one of the purposes of going back to school -- getting a chance to meet more people -- but perhaps some of us in the area could form a study group that meets in person once or twice a week.
If web design is my career of choice, I already have some background knowledge and experience -- both with HTML and graphics -- and the tools I'd need to do it aren't near as expensive as getting that degree would be. The most difficult part, I imagine, will be building up a reputation.
On a somewhat related subject, I discovered today that the people who registered the .ORG version of the domain name I wanted have also gone out and registered .COM and .NET (I had checked and at the time, they were still available). They're a small organization, and certainly not a well known brand name or anything, so the only reason Jev and I can figure out that they might have done it is sheer vanity or selfishness. I was quite annoyed, because we'd had a run-in with these people over a silly IRC channel some time back, and then I turned around to find they'd registered the domain I wanted. Now, they've done it again!
I can only hope that they haven't signed up to register the .WEB domain if or when the new top level domains (.WEB, .NOM, .SHOP, etc) become available. I guess I should have registered either .NET or .COM when I saw they'd grabbed up .ORG, but I don't currently have anywhere to host it, and I really wanted .ORG. I'll be happy with .WEB, if I can get it. If not, I'll be a little disappointed, but I have something else in mind.
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